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title: 32 Graduating Terps Named Senior Marshals
date: 2021-12-10T05:30:00-05:00
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# 32 Graduating Terps Named Senior Marshals

*December 10, 2021* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


> Program Celebrates Students’ Scholarship, Service, Extracurriculars, Personal Growth


A diverse and accomplished group that includes musicians, athletes, scientists in training, humanitarians and entrepreneurs will serve as Winter 2021 senior marshals, ushering graduating Terps into the campus-wide commencement ceremony to be held on Dec. 20.

Founded in 1991, the senior marshal program recognizes graduating Terps who demonstrate the highest levels of scholarship, service, extracurricular activity and personal growth.

The 32 students honored this semester are August and December 2021 graduates who were nominated by faculty and staff members, and chosen by a committee. They represent their colleges and the entire class at the ceremony, assisting with the processional and receiving a medallion commemorating their achievements.

As did their peers who graduated this spring, Winter 2021 graduates persevered through a unique and challenging experience as the coronavirus pandemic made their college experience largely virtual for more than a year. Normal campus life resumed this semester, allowing winter graduates a final semester of in-person college life.

“We congratulate the Class of 2021 for their achievement amid such unprecedented times, but also remember and recognize the Class of 2020 graduates just before them who did not have the same commencement opportunity as we now can, once again,” said Marsha Guenzler-Stevens, director of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union-Center for Campus Life, who oversees the program along with Robert Infantino, associate dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. “We celebrate the achievement of graduation for all of these Terps!”

Meet the senior marshals for Winter 2021:


*Uchenna Michael Aduaka headshot*



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*Shivani Amin headshot*



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*Kiara Anthony headshot*



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*Tiffany Benincasa-Powell headshot*



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*Reid S Buskirk headshot*



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*Julia Camina headshot*



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*Ethan Cheng headshot*



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*Arman Daneshpayeh headshot*



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*Kalista Dang headshot*



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*Asha Nilé Davis headshot*



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*Julia Dixon headshot*



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*Dylan Fitch headshot*



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*Gabrielle Eve Frohlich headshot*



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*Lindsay S. Garbacik headshot*



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*Emma Hammer headshot*



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*Kunal Harmalkar headshot*



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*Leah Nicole Hopson headshot*



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*Anusha Jailwala headshot*



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*Amida Fatmata Koroma headshot*



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*Bryce Alan Kowalczyk headshot*



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*Percy Langston headshot*



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*Lauren Murphy headshot*



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*Andrea Orpia headshot*



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*Julia London Parsons headshot*



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*Punit Patel headshot*



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*Dillyn Cassidy Payne headshot*



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*Alexis Jennell Peters headshot*



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**Shawn SN** (major: public health science) was a first-generation student of color and is graduating early with a citation from the Honors College’s University Honors program. He was part of the Government and Politics Honors Program, authoring a thesis analyzing how underrepresented minorities are subject to health disparities. He was an ambassador for the Honors College, School of Public Health and Office of Multi-ethnic Student Education and an advocate for diversity on campus. An avid learner and aspiring doctor, he plans on merging many disciplines with public health law and biotechnology to make Earth a better place for people and beyond.



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*Quiana Snowden*



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*Leon Timothy Stevenson Jr.*



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*Alexys Still*



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*Erik Verhoeven*




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