The School of Design Graduation Ceremony will follow the University Commencement on May 19th and will be held on the Furness Plaza, located on 34th and Walnut Streets between Meyerson Hall and the Fisher Fine Arts Library. A luncheon for graduates and their guests will be provided before the ceremony beginning at 12:00 noon in Meyerson Hall. The graduation ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. and features Harriet Tregoning as the speaker. Join us as we celebrate our newest graduates!
About our Speaker
Harriet Tregoning is the Director U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Economic Resilience, where her Office will help cities, counties and towns across the country build a strong foundation for a diverse and prosperous economy based on enhancing community quality of place, economic opportunity, fiscal stability, transportation choice, and affordability. She was recently the Director of the District of Columbia Office of Planning, where she worked to make DC a walkable, bikeable, eminently livable, globally competitive and sustainable city. Her priorities included re-writing the city’s zoning code for the first time in 50 years, planning the revitalization of the poorest part of the District as part of the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Headquarters at the National Historic Landmark St. Elizabeth’s Hospital campus, and collaborating with her transportation colleagues to bring the nation’s largest bike-sharing program to DC (launched September 2010 with 1000 bikes).
Prior to this she was the director of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design and co-founder, with former Maryland Governor Glendening, and executive director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute. She served Governor Glendening as both Secretary of Planning and then as the nation's first state-level Cabinet Secretary for Smart Growth. Prior to her tenure in Maryland state government, Tregoning was the director of Development, Community and Environment at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Tregoning’s academic training is in engineering and public policy. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for 2003-2004.
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