On May 25, 2025, Wesleyan community members from around the world gathered together to honor the indomitable graduating Class of 2025. View a recording of the 193rd Commencement Ceremony below. We are so proud of you.
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Read 'The Connection'Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy. He previously served as Associate White House Counsel under President Obama, where in addition to counseling the President and senior White House staff on administrative and constitutional law, he worked to ensure that executive branch officials complied with the laws, rules and norms that protect the fundamentally democratic nature of our government. A recipient of a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship and the Skoll Award for Social Innovation, he has repeatedly been named among the 500 most influential people in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine.
READ BASSIN'S FULL Read Connection article with full transcriptLael Brainard has served as the 14th Director of the National Economic Council, Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, and Undersecretary of the Treasury. With extensive senior leadership experience in macro, fiscal, and monetary policymaking, Brainard has contributed to the successful resolution of several financial crises, including the Asian financial crisis, Euro Area Crisis, COVID-19 crisis, 2023 debt limit impasse, and U.S. regional banking crisis. The New York Times has described Brainard as “America’s top financial diplomat” for her high-level negotiations with China and Europe.
READ BRAINARD'S FULL Read Connection article with full transcriptPercival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including The Trees (shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and winner of the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Erasure (adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction), and most recently the bestseller James (shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, won the 2024 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction). Everett has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
READ EVERETT'S FULL BIORead Connection article with full transcriptMichael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University on July 1, 2007. A professor in history and the humanities, he continues to teach undergraduate courses and is known as a historian, curator, author, and public advocate for liberal education.
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