Karine Jean-Pierre delivers Rice University's 2023 commencement speech a day after the anniversary of her appointment to the role of press secretary.
that has become standard to attend college in the U.S. Jean-Pierre maintained that it was her education that ultimately got her to a job in the White House.
She attended the New York Institute of Technology for undergrad and later Columbia University for her masters. She went on to work in local politics and eventually for national campaigns, including both of Barack Obama's presidential bids, before joining the Biden White House.Over a decade after Jean-Pierre's family moved to the U.S., her and her father passed the citizenship test and were able to vote.
She acknowledged that there are other ways to enact change within a community but said that "voting is special," specifically for those who have been deprived of democratic processes. "We aren't ignorant of all the obstacles in our way. We are simply choosing to say, 'I know the road ahead will be long so I better start the walking.' Because hope is action. Hope is not blind optimism," she said.The Class of 2023 was in their first year in college when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. The next three years of their experience were tainted by the aftermath of an unprecedented global health crisis.
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