Introducing the 2025 Harvard Griffin GSAS Commencement Marshals!

Each spring, the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) celebrates one of its most enduring and honored traditions: the selection of Commencement marshals. Nominated by fellow students, graduate program administrators, and faculty, then selected by the Harvard Griffin GSAS Student Council, the marshals embody the leadership, service, and scholarly excellence that define our community.

The 2025 Commencement marshals will play a vital role in Harvard’s graduation ceremonies. On the morning of Commencement, they will join the School’s deans in organizing the academic procession from the lawns at Richards Hall to historic Harvard Yard. At the front of the procession, they will carry the Harvard Griffin GSAS gonfalon—a ceremonial banner representing the School’s legacy—as they lead their peers into Tercentenary Theatre.

Being named a Commencement marshal is a significant honor and a symbol of the high regard in which these students are held by the Harvard Griffin GSAS community. The 2022 Commencement marshals representing the doctor of philosophy are: 

• Adebanjo “Banjo” Adedoja, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Ya’el Courtney, Neuroscience
• Ian Hunt-Isaak, Applied Physics
• Sun Kim, Population Health Sciences
• Georgia Soares, Comparative Literature
• Emmanouil (Manos) Theodosis, Computer Science
• Alexis Turner, History of Science

The 2022 Commencement marshal representing graduates with a master of arts, master of science, and master of engineering is David Amorim Caldas, AM, Anthropology.

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 marshals!