Mount Holyoke Commencement Speaker Thanks Activists for Their ‘Disruption’

Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer for the international charity Partners In Health, celebrated the work of student activists during a commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.  Students at the women’s liberal arts college started an online campaign called “MoHonest,” used to highlight microaggressions that students of various minority groups faced. Activists also pressured the school to create a policy in recent years to accept transgender applicants to the all-women’s college. And some students pushed the “Think Outside the Bottle” campaign to steer people away from bottled water, so that they would be more environmentally-friendly.