Your 2023 Commencement Speaker is ... Scroll Down A person who was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement as a child and decided then to fight for social and economic justice Someone who started on the front lines as a nurse but now leads millions of people A recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for reaching across party lines to save California from bankruptcy in the Great Recession A public leader who led the passage of what the Los Angeles Times called “the most significant child welfare policy reform in decades.” Please welcome Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles And first woman to be elected as the city’s chief executive Your 2023 Commencement Speaker at UCLA Anderson