Maya Moore’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2024
Watch Maya Moore Irons' full commencement address to the Class of 2024 on Sunday, May 5 in Gampel Pavilion.
Maya Moore Irons is a UConn basketball legend, author, two-time Olympic gold medalist, advocate for social justice, and recently named inductee to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
During her time at UConn, the women's basketball team won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010 and Moore was showered with honors, including two selections as the Naismith College Player of the Year and becoming only the third active player to be enshrined among the Huskies of Honor.
Her professional career included four WNBA championships, six all-star selections, and one selection as WNBA Most Valuable Player.
In 2019-20, she took a hiatus from basketball to pursue her advocacy of criminal justice reform, leading to the release of the wrongfully convicted Jonathan Irons from prison in Missouri.
She is the founder of Win With Justice, which advocates criminal justice reform, for which she won the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage in 2021.
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