New London Commencement speaker Ethan Brown told graduates of Connecticut College s Class of 2021 to “always live with a sense of forward possibility.”
Brown, who graduated in the Class of 1994 and founded the company Beyond Meat, shared his own story and told graduates that as they seek to awaken to their own potential and live a life of possibility, to remember their starting point.
He said Connecticut College is a “challenger institution” that opened its doors “to provide women with the rigorous higher education they were being denied elsewhere.” The college “broadened the circle of who and what matters.” He said the graduates are part of this challenger institution and part of a generation that is pushing for change.