{"id":96368,"date":"2019-05-13T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96368"},"modified":"2020-08-03T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:16:06","slug":"manoa-student-speakers-spring-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/manoa-student-speakers-spring-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Student speakers celebrate each other\u2019s stories, encourage positive impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-commencement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-commencement.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-commencement-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-commencement-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/manoa-commencement-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\"> University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>&#8216;s spring graduating class heard from two inspiring student speakers, <strong>Mart Joshua Lopez<\/strong> and <strong>Annie Nguyen<\/strong>, who shared their stories at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/commencement\/\">108th Annual Commencement Exercises<\/a> on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Stan Sheriff Center. An estimated 2,200 students participated in the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_93847\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCJ2q7EIUqw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½Manoa 2019 spring commencement speaker: Mart Joshua Lopez\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2>Mart Joshua Lopez<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mart Joshua Lopez <\/strong>was the morning ceremony speaker and earned his bachelor of arts in communications. Lopez talked about learning the hard truth during his college years that our journeys in life were never meant to be linear, but full of trials and tribulations, victories and excitement. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s important to embrace all the setbacks and celebrate all the wins and to share that story to inspire others,&rdquo; said Lopez. &ldquo;I ask you all to speak up and to share your story because it has played a crucial role to who you are as a person here today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_43696\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LS5gWHiF9v4?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½Manoa 2019 spring commencement speaker: Annie Nguyen\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2>Annie Nguyen<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Annie Nguyen<\/strong>, the afternoon ceremony speaker, graduated with a bachelor of business administration in marketing, human resource management and international business from the <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\">Shidler College of Business<\/a>, and a certificate in French language. Nguyen said that <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa instilled in her the value of kuleana, inspired her to find purpose and challenged her to give back. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We\u2019ve been placed at this school and given so much by our <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> so now it is our kuleana, our responsibility, to dream big, live boldly and make positive impacts in this world,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa graduates heard from student speakers Mart Joshua Lopez and Annie Nguyen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12],"tags":[234,661,925,774,146,660,9,56],"class_list":["post-96368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-video","tag-commencement","tag-communications","tag-international-business","tag-marketing","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96389,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96368\/revisions\/96389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}