Claudine Gay's inauguration speech included a message to students: Take risks and challenge the status quo.
Claudine Gay is now officially Harvard's 30th president. She was inaugurated in a ceremony on Friday. “Our stories — and the stories of the many trailblazers between us — are linked by this institution’s long history of exclusion and the long journey of resistance and resilience to overcome it,” Gay said in her inauguration speech, according to the Harvard Gazette.
’”The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Gay earned her Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1998. Prior to taking the job of president, she served as the dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 2018.“As a Black woman, it’s just so incredible to have somebody who looks like me, from a similar background from me, achieve so much," Leticia Sefia, a student who attended the inauguration festivities, told the Harvard Gazette.
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