"We are your community innovators, changemakers, and arc-benders, fighting the good fight every day to help bend the arc of the moral universe toward health equity and social justice," the dean of the University of California-Berkeley's School of Public Health told a graduating class of 605 doctoral, masters, and undergrads last week.
Commencement speaker and biotech company founder Gerald Chan urged the students to embrace innovation, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
"Innovation is a mindset, it is a mental habit, it is an intolerance for poor outcomes, it is an eye to see deficiencies as a prelude to something better, it is taking risk to challenge the status quo, it is thinking unthinkable to create alternatives," Chan said.
The graduates, most of whom graduated from high school in 2020, were unable to celebrate their secondary school commencements, so the day was extra special.
Graduate orator Raksha Rajeshmohan spoke of how concern, kindness, and love were at the center of her public health experience.Amidst all the chaos that is Berkeley, we were given a safe space to grow within this department," she said.
Dean Michael C.
Lu echoed Rajeshmohan's sentiment in his commencement remarks.
"And wherever you go, I hope
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