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A beaming young woman named Thalia Theodore told a capacity crowd at the Apollo last Friday, May 11, that she was amazed to be standing centerstage at the storied Harlem venue because she cannot sing or dance with professional distinction.
But the audience cheered as Ms. Theodore, an award-winning student at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, welcomed her graduating class to the Apollo. The graduate school, which prepares people to run government agencies, nonprofit and for-profit organizations as well as health programs in the U.S. and abroad, held its first graduation in Harlem ever.
"I know that one person can make a difference," Trenton, N.J. Mayor Doug Palmer, the keynote speaker, told the audience of more than 250 graduating Wagner School students and their families, as former New York City Mayor David Dinkins listened...