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2022 Event Details

Join us in celebrating the graduation of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Class of 2022!

  • Date & Time: June 3 at 4 p.m. PST
  • Location: Dickson Court North
  • Commencement Speaker: Ms. Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize & National Humanities Medal winner
  • Commencement Program: Download Program PDF
  • Tickets: Required for entry. The event is for the DGSOM community and invited guests.
  • Parking: Lot 2 or Lot 3.  Accessible parking available in Lot A day of the event.
  • COVID-19 Protocols: Masks are recommended for everyone in attendance.
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About the Commencement Speaker: Isabel Wilkerson

Dear DGSOM Community,

We are thrilled and proud to announce that our speaker for the DGSOM Class of 2022 Commencement, to be held Friday, June 3, 2022, will be Ms. Isabel Wilkerson! Ms. Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, which was selected as the DGSOM Common Book for Academic Year 2021-2022 and has informed our collective conversations and curricular activities throughout the year.

A gifted storyteller, Ms. Wilkerson has become an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country and our current era of upheaval. In her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light and into our hearts. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic racial inheritance — a notion she has expressed in her widely-shared Op-Ed essays in The New York Times.

Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first Black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting in the history of American journalism.

She has lectured on narrative nonfiction at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston universities. She has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States, Europe and in Asia. Her work has garnered seven honorary degrees, most recently from Bates College and Southern Methodist University. She has appeared on national programs such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, NPR’s Fresh Air, NBC’s Nightly News, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, and others.

In conferring Ms. Wilkerson the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the National Endowment for the Humanities honored her “for championing the stories of an unsung history. Her masterful combination of intimate human narratives with broader societal trends allows us to measure the epic migration of a people by its vast impact on our Nation and on each individual life.”

We hope you will join us in celebrating the Class of 2022 and sharing in the powerful and inspirational message Ms. Wilkerson will deliver.

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