Live Updates: Class of 2020 In-Person Commencement Experience
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Bryan Lipiner
| May 8, 2021
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Bryan Lipiner
Bryan Lipiner is the Senior Manager for Social Media and Content Marketing at Babson College. Since arriving at Babson in 2019, he has dramatically scaled engagement and followings on Babson’s social media channels, led award-winning social media campaigns, written for Babson Thought & Action, and more. Prior to Babson, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Record-Journal newspaper in central Connecticut. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University in 2015.
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Welcome back to Babson, undergraduate and graduate students of the Class of 2020.
You can watch portions of today’s events—including graduates crossing the Commencement stage—on our livestream. http://bab.sn/sdx861
You can also follow us for live updates from our #Babson2020 in-person commencement experience below.
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Tagged Class of 2020, Graduate, Undergraduate
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