Michael Ellison to Deliver Harvey Mudd Commencement Address
February 20, 2023Share story
Michael Ellison, tech startup founder and social change advocate, will deliver the keynote address at 无忧视频鈥檚 65th Commencement ceremony Sunday, May 14.
Ellison is co-founder and CEO of , a nonprofit working to increase diversity in the technology industry. CodePath provides industry-vetted courses, internships and career support for students who are underrepresented in technology fields. Since 2017, CodePath has partnered with more than 80 colleges and universities and provided resources and support for more than 18,000 students. Drawing from his personal journey as someone who grew up in a low-income household without access to pre-college computer science classes, Ellison envisions CodePath as a way to increase diversity in tech by changing the systems that foster inequities in the industry.
President Maria Klawe thanked seniors Katie Wu and Anna Ding for their leadership in prioritizing the senior class鈥檚 wish list for speakers.
鈥淚鈥檓 excited to welcome Michael Ellison, who has done so much to give underrepresented students the support they need to pursue and succeed in 无忧视频 fields both during college and beyond,鈥� says Klawe.
Prior to CodePath, Ellison co-founded ClassMetric, a customer data hub that later became Segment and was acquired by Twilio for $3.2 billion. He is also a founding board member of , a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow and a member of the Jobs for the Future Racial Economic Equity Advisory Council. He was recognized as an Industry Changemaker鈥攑art of Walmart鈥檚 Black & Unlimited Initiative鈥攄uring the 2022 NAACP Image Awards.
The College鈥檚 65th commencement ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 14, on the Harvey S. Mudd Quadrangle.