Columbia Climate School
CLASS DAY 2024
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024
THE FORUM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Program
Processional
Greetings and Dean Remarks
Jeff Shaman, PhD, Interim Dean
Directors’ Remarks
Mingfang Ting, PhD and Lisa Dale, PhD
Co-Directors MA in Climate and Society
Student Speaker
Tamara Rasamny
Keynote Speaker
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Student Awards
Jeff Shaman
Presentation of the Graduates
Natalie Unwin-Kuruneri, Assistant Dean of Academic Initiatives
Alfred Ayoub, Senior Director of Admissions and Marketing
Closing Remarks
Jeff Shaman
Recessional
Reception
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Awards
The Campbell Award
Farida Razaqi
Climate School Community Leadership Award
Philip Yeon Yoon Kozlowski
Columbia Alumni Association Scholarship
Alexandra Jardine Wall
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Graduates
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Navin Anita Ramesh Aade
Varun Agarwal
Fabio Almer Agoes
Taylor Atkinson
Joey Ayala
Karla Sofía García Bagué
Jonathan Block
Evan Brooks
Maria Bushby
Lucas Daniel Chapman
Amanda Chen
Ningyan Chen
Yiyan Chen
Ryan Chilcoat
Alora Cisneroz
Jerry Connolly
Camille Czarny
* February conferral
Zoë Ann Dansdill
Wayne Dawkins
Christina Deodatis
Dannie Dinh*
Nina Engelbrecht
Jack Firestone
Fiona Lucarelli Quigley Flaherty
Alessandra Marie Gianino
Naazneen Kaur Gill
Arpana Giritharan
Vanshika Goel
Jiayi Gu
Cassidy Smith Hall
Poppy Hammond
Kristen Hovland
Cameron Holley Howard
Ian Robert Hunt
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Ece Asya Ikizler
Shadé Jaiyeola
Andie Helaine Kapiloff
Shagun Kar
Yaiza Arjona Kinney
Philip Yeong Yoon Kozlowski
Lucie Valentine Gill Lagodich
Oluwatimilehin Elizabeth Laniyan
Yu-Lun Lee
Hellas Lee
Yanyu Li
Niklas Mikael Linder
Diya Liu
Nur Afiqah M. Zulkifli
Jonelle Maltay
Vishy Manve
Maria Del Pilar Marti
Julio Martinez
Kyle Mason
Luisa Marguerite Medina
Nishat Mirza
Brigitte Montminy
Catherine Clare Morneau
Leah Kamwanya Mpinga
Maya Nahor
Eman Nazir
Yasmeen Adara Nekoo
Colleen M. O’Leary
Nouhaila Oudija
Julia Pack
Marion Powell
Layalee Ramahi
Tamara Honein Rasamny
Zega Ras-Work
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Graduates
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Farida Razaqi
Michael E. Reed
Yumi Rodriguez
Lily Anne Root
Meghan Russell
Benjamin Saccone
Christina Dionne Sanders
Astha Sanghavi
Tamara Adrienne Lim Santos
Lylia Saurel
Riccardo Serbolonghi
Tenzin Chodhen Sherpa
Dasom Shi
Nicholas Leroy Silvis
Katarzyna Smętek
Grayson Sussman Squires
Josie Strick
Stephanie Daiyu Su
Zayna Syed
Daphne Juliette van der Molen
Sophia Jasmine Vanderheym
Jasen Vest
Alexandra Jardine Wall
Yutong Wei
Tucker Wilke
Jiangyu Yan
Jianing Zhang
Cindy Zixin Zhang
Yifei Zhao
Jerry Zhu
Elizabeth Zhu
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Dean
Jeff Shaman, PhD, Interim Dean
Program CO-DIRECTORS
Mingfang Ting, PhD, Co-Director MA in Climate and Society
Lisa Dale, PhD, Co-Director MA in Climate and Society
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