Shuyao Kong ’13, an international student from China, delivered the student speech at Smith College’s Ivy Day celebration on Saturday, May 18, 2013.
Shuyao, who graduated cum laude this weekend, embodies Smith’s mission to educate women for the world. In addition to her travels to the U.S. from China, Shuyao also participated in a Smith College internship at a business consulting company in Bangalore, India in 2011, and studied abroad last year in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is also president of Smith’s Chinese cultural club, CISCO and is starting a career at IBM in Nigeria in September.
You may watch Shuyao’s presentation here, or read the full text of her speech.
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