EMBA, GEMBA, HMBA, and TMMBA Virtual Commencement

EMBA, GEMBA, HMBA, and TMMBA Virtual Commencement

Ceremony Information

The 2021 Foster School of Business Graduation Virtual Commencement for EMBA, GEMBA, HMBA and TMMBA students is scheduled for the evening on Monday, June 7th, 2021 at 6:00pm PT. 

EMBA GEMBA HMBA TMMBA Graduation Program 2021

Click here to watch the webcast!

What to expect:

A night of celebration with live remarks from Dean Hodge, live faculty and emcee Associate Dean Turner, Keynote Speaker, Valedictorian speeches (pre-recorded), student-made videos, and graduates’ names will be read as they “cross” the virtual stage.

Can I invite family and friends to join the live webcast?

Absolutely! The live webcast on Monday, June 7th at 6:00 pm will be accessible to the public. Graduates will receive the URL to access the live webcast closer to the Celebration date, and it will also be posted to this website. Please invite as many people as you would like to join the live webcast.

2021 Keynote Speaker:

Betti Fujikado, UW ’77, could be considered a serial co-founder, starting with the 23-year-old Seattle advertising agency Copacino Fujikado, partnering with Jim Copacino. CF has served clients such as the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Premera Blue Cross, Symetra, Seattle Aquarium, REI, and Chateau Ste. Michelle. She is currently co-founder of Success Cohorts with Carla Corkern, a coaching and community building company serving traditionally underrepresented groups, providing a place of belonging and support for professionals in the first few years of their careers. Its first program serves first-generation college graduates, partnering with College Success Foundation, a 21-year-old national nonprofit helping underserved, low-income students achieve their dream of a college education. In September 2021, Success Cohorts/Parents will launch with Goodwin Connections, a nonprofit founded as the Milk Fund in 1907 connecting families to educational opportunities that build financial stability and create generational change.

Betti has also conceived and partnered on social impact projects in the past two years since moving from CEO to co-founder at Copacino Fujikado. The first involved partnering with Mimi Gan gathering the support of the six Seattle professional sports teams in a grassroots outreach to communities of color called Seattle Unite’s Democracy Cup. The Democracy Cup encouraged completion of the 2020 Census and voting by communities of color who typically respond in lower numbers. Her most recent collaboration with four other AAPI womxn, Our Stories Are Your Stories in May 2021, is a celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. Its purpose is to encourage dialogue instead of divisiveness, humanity instead of animosity, with personal stories by AAPI notables such as Dr. Vin Gupta, Lana Condor, Yuji Okumoto, and Doug Baldwin, among others. DIY videos by the AAPI community are also encouraged through social media and all videos can be accessioned in the Wing Luke Museum’s oral history archives as a first-person account of this moment in time for all AAPIs.

Betti has been a Trustee at Western Washington University, a Puget Sound Business Journal Woman of Influence, one of “50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business” recognized by the Asian American Business Development Center, and a winner of Seattle’s American Advertising Foundation Silver Award, its highest honor. As the daughter of Japanese parents incarcerated during World War II, Betti uses her voice to promote diversity in the Seattle business community.

She is a proud graduate of the University of Washington in 1977 and has been a Foster School of Business MBA mentor for the past 7 years.

The University of Washington’s 146th Annual Commencement
This event will be held on Saturday, June 12th, 2021. Refer to the UW Commencement website for details on participating in the campus-wide celebrations.