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Full circle moment. 🎓

This past Sunday at Afro-Grad, before we pinned our 2026 graduates, we paused for something special. Our keynote speaker, UCLA legend and six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, never got to attend her own graduation. So we surprised her — pinning her first, to kick off the ceremony in her honor before passing that same moment on to every graduate behind her.

A legacy passed forward, one pin at a time. 💛💙