Commencement · UWC South East Asia, Class of 2024
Watch UWC International's Executive Director, Faith Abiodun's keynote address to UCSEA's Class of 2024. Faith's inspiring message is a reminder to all UWC recent graduates of the power in embracing optimism, resisting cynicism and leaning into discomfort to make real change happen.
1 May 2024 · Commencement
Faith’s address to Macalester’s Class of 2023, on the day the college conferred his honorary doctorate — on the questions that shape a life, standing in the arena, and the charge to dream big.
In May 2022, I was graduation speaker at UWC-USA, at the end of a really challenging year for the school. Having been evacuated weeks earlier from the most devastating wildfire to have hit the region in decades, I honoured the resilience of the graduating class while reminding them of the poignant words of UWC’s founder, Kurt Hahn – “You are needed…”
Faith Abiodun - Executive Director of the United World Colleges (UWC) International - visits UWCSEA in Singapore to present at the Kishore Mahbubani Speaker Series (KMSS) on Dover Campus, 16 May, 2024.