Public health student Irene Frempong to deliver CPH student graduation address
When Irene Frempong, student speaker at the College of Public Health's 2024 Graduation ceremony, addresses classmates at the Liacouras Center on May 8, she plans to talk about their unique experience as the first graduating college class fully impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a class whose high-school graduation ceremonies were curtailed. Their proms scheduled for springtime in 2020 were canceled. The start of their college lives was marked by isolation and remote classes.
“We had to overcome that,” she says, previewing her speech a little. “Coming into fres...