Grit, Resilience and Perseverance

This is the Class of 2020.

Photography by: Ryan S. Brandenberg and Joseph V. Labolito
Words by: Samantha Krotzer

The alumni Owl statue on Temple's Main Campus.

Some in the university community have a simple, but powerful mission: Tell the Temple story. And normally, that means meeting with students almost daily, being blown away by their talents and visions, and, of course, taking their pictures.

The following collection of photographs were captured over the past four years and used to tell our story in one way or another. From Temple magazine to the websites we create to show what’s possible here, these photographs have shown thousands of people who we are here at Temple.

And now, they honor the Class of 2020.

Amear Mitchell outside of Philadelphia City Hall.

Amear Mitchell
^{College of Liberal Arts}

“I want to be that person for other students coming in. To be that helping hand so the students can be their best selves here.”
Amear Mitchell started the Transfer Mentor Program so incoming transfer students would feel supported and at home at Temple.

AaronRey Ebreo
^{College of Science and Technology}

Jibreel Murray
^{Fox School of Business}

“I always tried to be the hardest-working kid in my class. It’s that grit and perseverance that allowed me to never quit on myself and never give up for my family or my community.”

Michelle Intoccia in an art student at Temple Japan.

Michelle Intoccia
^{Klein College of Media and Communication}

“Temple is community. It's culture. It's creativity.”

Nathan Edwards Lacerona Villanueva
^{College of Liberal Arts}

Abigail Bedesem
^{Fox School of Business}

Anthony Romero
^{Tyler School of Art and Architecture}

Ye Jin Jeon
^{Tyler School of Art and Architecture}

Lloyd-Princeton Cangé
^{Tyler School of Art and Architecture}

“I knew I needed a space and a community at Tyler and at Temple, and I figured if I needed a space then other people did as well. That’s our mission—building a community for artists of color and strengthening ourselves through art.”
Lloyd-Princeton Cangé re-lauched the Artists of Color Collective of Temple University