Corbett alum Kendall Hutchison Acker gives commencement speech at Claremont Graduate University

Corbett Exchange Program alum Kendall Hutchison Acker (2019-20) graduated this spring from Claremont Graduate University with a master’s degree in American History and Museum Studies, and was selected as the student commencement speaker for 2025. Her thesis, The Price Tag of a 5-Star Culture: Cultural Performance and the Politics of Luxury in Oʻahu Hotels, examines how luxury hotels in Hawai‘i curate Native Hawaiian experiences in ways that perpetuate settler-colonial ideologies and obscure the lived realities of Hawaiian people under American statehood. She will pursue a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Alberta.