Fall 2024 Graduate Celebration

This event is only open to the graduating students, their family and friends.

You're Invited: Fall 2024 Graduate Celebration

Join us as we celebrate the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Fall 2024 Graduates!

    December 18, 2024

    10:00 am - 12 noon

    [10:00 am] Program: Architecture Building Auditorium    

    Reception: Architecture Building Great Space

A program recognizing the accomplishments of our fall graduates will be followed by light fare, warm drinks and festivities to include a slideshow of graduating students and displays of student work, along with music, opportunities for individual as well as family and friend photos and more.

We look forward to celebrating this significant academic achievement with our graduating students and their families and hope you will join us!

Program

Graduate Celebration Speaker: 

David Do, M.C.P. '14

Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) 

David Do was nominated to serve as Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) by Mayor Eric Adams on April 28, 2022 and was confirmed by the City Council on May 19, 2022. 

During his tenure with the TLC, Commissioner Do has spearheaded many key initiatives and policies. Under his watch, high-volume for-hire vehicle (Uber and Lyft) licensees have been the beneficiaries of minimum driver pay rules that mitigate rising fuel, vehicle, and maintenance costs, as well as inflation. Yellow taxi drivers also got their first raise in a decade. The Medallion Relief Program Plus (MRP+) has provided over $470 million in critical debt-relief for thousands of medallion owners, preventing many from losing their homes. Meanwhile, the historic Green Rides Initiative made New York City the first municipality in the Unites to require 100% of its rideshare trips to be zero-emission or wheelchair accessible by 2030—a goal that is two years ahead of schedule and that will dramatically reduce the City’s reduce carbon emissions. 

Previously, Commissioner Do served as the Director of the Washington, D.C. Department of For-Hire Vehicles (DFHV), where he oversaw the city’s fast-moving and competitive for-hire vehicle industry. Prior to his service at DFHV, Commissioner Do served as the Director of the Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, where he worked to improve the quality of life for thousands of DC Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. 

Commissioner Do earned a BA in economics at the University of California, Merced and an MA in urban planning at the University of Maryland, College Park.