Saturday - May 18, 2024

1:30 p.m. - Ceremony 5

Contents

Program

Platform Party

Honorary Degree of Laws

Commencement Speaker

College of Business Administration and Public Policy

College of Continuing and Professional Education

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Program

PRESENTATION OF COLORS AND NATIONAL ANTHEM

Dr. Michael E. Spagna
Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs

CSU Dominguez Hills ROTC Color Guard

Max Starr
National Anthem Singer

WELCOME AND PLATFORM PARTY INTRODUCTION

Dr. Thomas A. Parham
President

INTRODUCTION OF STUDENT SPEAKER

Dr. Sheela Pawar
Chair, Academic Senate

STUDENT SPEAKER

Paola Lumbreras
BS, Criminal Justice

INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Michael E. Spagna
Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

Ms. Stephanie Wiggins
CEO, Los Angeles County Metro Transportation Authority

ALUMNI PINNING

Dr. William Franklin
Vice President, Student Affairs

RECOGNITION OF HONORS RECIPIENTS

Dr. Michael E. Spagna
Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs

PRESENTATION OF CLASS FOR CONFERRAL

Dr. Michael E. Spagna
Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs

CONFERRAL OF DEGREES AND PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES

Dr. Thomas A. Parham
President

TASSEL TURN AND CONGRATULATIONS

Dr. Thomas A. Parham
President

CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. Edgar Mejia-Alezano
President, Associated Students, Inc.

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Platform Party

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Dr. Darlene Yee-Melichar
CSU Trustee

Jonathan Molina Mancio
CSU Trustee

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Ms. Stephanie Wiggins
CEO, Los Angeles County Metro Transportation Authority

STUDENT SPEAKER

Paola Lumbreras
BS, Criminal Justice

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS

• Dr. Thomas A. Parham
  President
• Dr. Michael E. Spagna
  Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs
• Dr. William Franklin
  Vice President, Student Affairs
• Ms. Deborah Wallace
  Vice President, Administration and Finance
• Dr. Bobbie Porter
  Vice President, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
• Mr. Chris Manriquez
  Vice President, Information Technology
• Ms. Eva Sevcikova
  Vice President, University Advancement
• Dr. Sheela Pawar
  Chair, Academic Senate
• Mr. Ken O’Donnell
  Vice Provost, Academic Affairs
• Mr. Edgar Mejia-Alezano
  President, Associated Students, Inc.
• Dr. Timothy Caron
  Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
• Dr. Joseph Wen
  Dean, College of Business Administration and Public Policy
• Dr. Tayyeb Shabbir
  Associate Dean, College of Business Administration and Public Policy
• Dr. Kim McNutt
  Dean, College of Continuing and Professional Education
• Dr. Jessica Pandya
  Dean, College of Education
• Dr. Corinne Martinez
  Associate Dean, College of Education
• Dr. Mi-Sook Kim
  Dean, College of Health, Human Services and Nursing
• Dr. Enrique Ortega
  Associate Dean, College of Health, Human Services and Nursing
• Dr. Philip LaPolt
  Dean, College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences
• Dr. Kim Costino
  Dean, Undergraduate Studies
• Dr. Andrew Drummond
  Associate Vice President, Academic Advising and Career Development
• Andrew Jones
  CSU Executive Vice Chancellor and General Counsel
• Dr. December Bolden
  CSU Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, Office of General Counsel

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Commencement Speaker

Ms. Stephanie Wiggins
CEO, Los Angeles County Metro Transportation Authority

Stephanie Wiggins is the CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), the lead transportation planning, programming, financing, and construction agency for the 10 million residents of LA County and the second busiest transit agency in the United States. As CEO of Metro, Wiggins leads a public agency with 11,000 employees, an annual budget of $9 billion and a $22.4 billion capital program. Ms. Wiggins is the first woman – and first African American woman – to lead Metro.

As Metro CEO, Wiggins has led massive investments to improve the transit customer experience, including the creation of the nation’s largest transit ambassador program. She has also overseen the delivery the $2.3 billion K Line in south LA and the $1.9 billion Regional Connector in downtown LA.

Before joining Metro as CEO in June 2021, Wiggins served as the CEO of Metrolink from 2018-2021 and the Deputy CEO of Metro from 2015-2018, where she worked to achieve strategic public transportation objectives, including the passage of Measure M, a half-cent sales tax approved by 71 percent of voters in LA County. Earlier in her career, Wiggins led the creation of LA County’s first high occupancy toll lanes and greatly expanded Metro’s utilization of local, small, and historically underutilized businesses through the creation of new vendor procurement programming.

Wiggins is a graduate of Whittier College and holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the 2020 National League of Railway Women’s Woman of the Year award, and a member of several charitable boards.

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College of Business Administration and Public Policy

Bachelor of Science