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21st BPI Commencement with Voting Rights Icon Desmond Meade

06/27/2023
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BPI’s 21st Commencement: celebrating 63 graduates at Eastern Correctional Facility with voting rights icon Desmond Meade, whose work restored voting rights to over 1.4 million Floridians.

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  This spring, BPI convened its 22nd Commencement across four ceremonies — on Bard’s main campus, at two prisons for men, as well as BPI’s first bachelor’s graduation at a prison for women — conferring more than 100 degrees. Graduates of the class of 2024 had the honor of hearing from multiple commencement speakers— Earth Scientist Naomi […]
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