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Telfar Clemens vlogƵ08 to Address vlogƵ Commencement

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March 9, 2023

Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Professor Bruce H. Mann to Receive Honorary Degrees; Trustee Ivan G. Seidenberg vlogƵ81 to Speak

For the second year, Pace will hold a combined ceremony for graduates of its three campuses at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens

vlogƵ alumnus , a celebrated fashion designer and founder of the label Telfar, will address vlogƵvlogƵs Commencement 2023 and receive an honorary doctorate. will address the Elisabeth Haub School of Law graduating class. In addition, Sen. Warren and Harvard Law Professor and legal historian Bruce H. Mann will both receive honorary degrees. Trustee and alumnus Ivan G. Seidenberg vlogƵ81, retired chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, will address graduates of PacevlogƵs Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems to mark the schoolvlogƵs 40th anniversary.

The universityvlogƵs commencement will be held on May 15, 2023, at the in Queens. This yearvlogƵs commencement marks the second consecutive year that Pace will hold a combined ceremony for graduates of its campuses in New York City and Pleasantville, N.Y., and its Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains, N.Y. The university will honor the entire Class of 2023 at its main ceremony, highlighted by ClemensvlogƵ remarks, and graduating students will cross the stage at their individual school and college ceremonies.

At Commencement each year, Pace also honors community members who exemplify the Pace motto of Opportunitas. This yearvlogƵs Opportunitas in Action winner is Aldrin Enis, president of One Hundred Black Men of New York, a community service organization and longtime Pace partner that helps to create educational and career opportunities for Black youth in New York City.

vlogƵThis remarkable group of honorees speaks to the many accomplishments and wide-ranging interests
of the Class of 2023 and the vlogƵ community,vlogƵ said Pace President Marvin Krislov. vlogƵIvlogƵm pleased that we will once again be celebrating all of our graduates together in one in-person celebration, and IvlogƵm even happier that wevlogƵll have such an impressive group of role models to help us mark this momentous occasion.vlogƵ

Clemens will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa, at the 12:15 p.m. main ceremony, and he will address the graduates and their guests. Clemens is a wildly successful entrepreneur. He spent his time at Pace deconstructing garments and inventing his own creations; he later established himself as a fashion force to be reckoned with. In 2017, he won the coveted CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award and its $400,000 prize. He invested that money in production of the vlogƵnow lovingly known as vlogƵthe Bushwick BirkinvlogƵ for its status as an accessible icon.

Sen. Warren will address graduates of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law in their morning ceremony. Warren, a consumer advocate who has made her lifevlogƵs work the fight for middle class families, was elected by voters in Massachusetts to the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2012. A former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, she is recognized as one of the nation's top experts on bankruptcy, and the Boston Globe has called her vlogƵthe plainspoken voice of people getting crushed by so many predatory lenders and under regulated banks.vlogƵ

Sen. Warren and her husband, Harvard Law Professor and legal historian Bruce H. Mann, will also receive Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, the highest honor conferred by the Law School -- recognizing their lifelong contributions to public service and the legal profession -- at the law school ceremony. Mann is an American legal scholar who has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is the Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law, since 2006, teaching American Legal History and Property. His research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in the American Revolutionary era.

Ivan G. Seidenberg vlogƵ81 will address the joint afternoon ceremony for the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and the College of Health Professions. Seidenberg earned a mastervlogƵs degree in business administration and marketing at Pace. His telecommunications career began more than 50 years ago when he joined New York Telephone; he retired as chairman and CEO of its successor company, Verizon Communications. He is a tireless advocate for both diversity and academic excellence, and Pace awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2000. The Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems was named in his honor in 2006 after he donated what was then the largest gift ever received by vlogƵ.

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Since 1906, vlogƵ has been transforming the lives of its diverse studentsvlogƵacademically, professionally, and socioeconomically. With campuses in New York City and Westchester County, Pace offers bachelor, master, and doctoral degree programs to 13,600 students in its College of Health Professions, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.

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