First-Generation Graduation Pinning Ceremony 2024
Graduation is always a reason to celebrate, but it’s an especially proud occasion for first-generation students. Before Commencement each May, we hold a pinning ceremony to celebrate BU’s first-gen graduates. Each student participating in the ceremony invites a guest—a family member or other supporter—who will have the honor of “pinning” the graduate with a commemorative Terrier F1RSTS lapel pin.
Fourth Annual First-Generation Graduation Pinning Ceremony
Friday, May 17, 2024, 7:30-9:00pm EDT
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue
The Newbury Center invited all Terrier F1RSTS graduating in May 2024 to join us for our 4th Annual First-Generation Graduation Pinning Ceremony. We loved celebrating you, our graduating first-generation undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Boston University’s fourth annual First-Gen Graduation Pinning Ceremony was live-streamed on Friday, May 17, 2024 at 7:30 pm EDT.
| Undergraduate | Graduate |
| Charlene Aka | Hector Agosto-Delgado |
| Iqra Amin | Maria Aguilera |
| Annessa Anastacia | Abdulrahman Almalki |
| Taelor Anderson | David Andrade |
| Shantelle Bartley | Jocelyn Arroyo |
| Frehiwot Bayuh | Bhumesh Bansal |
| Shannon Blake | Megan Barlow |
| Brisa Bolanos | Rachel Bayer |
| Brianna Bourne | Caroline Betetta |
| Miriam Bounar | Kyla Botsian |
| Domenica Bueno | Charlene Browne |
| Yadira Cabrera | JoColl Burgess |
| Paige Castelhano | Kelly Chen |
| Julia Chen | Abigail Choffel |
| Lisa Chen | Alexis Cohen |
| Annie Cheng | Maria Cordova |
| Sophia Cheng | Sophia Cornish |
| Aicha Coulibaly | Danielle Costa |
| John De los Santos | Jazmin Cruz-Flores |
| Guensly Desir | Parita Danole |
| Kelsey Doukszewicz | Jennifer Freraud |
| Gabrielle Drillis | Kassandra Flores |
| Stacey Dubreus | Sean Fowler |
| Bri Einhorn | Jelonid Fuentes |
| Leslie Espinal | Flora Giordani |
| Ashley Facey | Busra Gok |
| Sunyyah Fenelon | Lea Grieco-Kwong |
| Jenna Flaherty | Veronica Guerrero |
| Aileen Flores-Calderon | Riya Guha Thakurta |
| Valery Franco | Ashley Halkitis |
| Colin Gao | Shanice Hamilton |
| Karina Gao | Cecilia Jarquin |
| Bianca Gawencki | Christiana Kalfas |
| Rosemary Gould | Alekhya Katragadda |
| Bhavika Goyal | Prishita Kochhar |
| Dora Granera | Anna Kwong |
| Shumin Guan | Tina Lam Walon |
| Danielle Han | Febriany Lete |
| Tiayna Harris | Wulida Wahidatul Masruria |
| Erica Hecht | Jinal Mistry |
| Sophia Huynh | Rebin Najmalddin |
| Juliana Jesri | Lia Noerkhasanah |
| Rudy Joseph | Claudia Pacheco-Gonzalez |
| Agnieszka Kowalczyk | Donna Palombo |
| Kasandra Kue-Rojas | Adamaris Perez |
| Kei Kwan Queena Lau | Brittany Plummer |
| Portia Lee | Kashia Point Du Jour |
| Siqi Li | Maricarmen Rivera |
| Rachel Li | Patricia Robinson-Angel |
| Jan Lopez | Jonathan Rochin |
| Joanna Love | Genesis Rodrigues |
| Vivian Lu | Maria Rodriguez |
| Evelyn Lucero | Yessika Santos Genao |
| Olivia Madajczyk | Devesh Shukla |
| Michele Mariano | Gregoriana Siami |
| Angelique Martinez | Etty Singer |
| Elizabeth McIlroy | Yudha Pratama Situmorang |
| Maisha Miah | Erika Syokau |
| Natalie Ng | Wei Yu Tan |
| Tuyet-Anh Nguyen | Tee Thach |
| Courtney Nicholson | Estar Rani Vallapu |
| Maria Nino-Suastegui | Valeria Vallejo |
| Dara R. Oliveira | Alexander Vang |
| Sydney Peacock | April Verser |
| Jenelle Peña | Sarina Virani |
| Johnson Peow | Chi Vu |
| Alahna Perez | Weiye Wang |
| Mackenzie Pike | Hastyaryani Wardhani |
| Viktoria Popovska | Takashi Watanabe |
| Katarina Quach | Victoria Weber |
| Nisrine Rahmaoui | Kevin Wiles |
| Diana Reno | Yijing Wu |
| Jasmine Rodriguez | David Wungkana |
| Ernesto Rodriguez | |
| Brenda Rodriguez | |
| Jeremy Rojas | |
| Yilan Ruan | |
| Valerie Sanchez Covaleda | |
| Jeevi Scarotta | |
| Shiv Sharma | |
| Wen Bing Shi | |
| Alex Shores | |
| Autumn Sidwell | |
| Ashanti Smith | |
| Jessica Sullivan | |
| Jingyi Sun | |
| Jacqueline Sutton | |
| Delilah Torres | |
| Thuc Nhan Tran | |
| Vy Trieu | |
| Marjories Vasquez | |
| Genesis Velasco | |
| Haoxi Wang | |
| Katie Ying Wen | |
| Nataly Winter | |
| Ysabel Wulfing | |
| Andy Zheng | |
| Sharon Zou |