Arameh Anvarizadeh announced as 2026 Commencement speaker
March 27, 2026
AOTA President, USC faculty member, and three-time alumna will keynote the division’s 84th Commencement ceremony.
2026 Commencement keynote speaker Dr. Arameh Anvarizadeh
Arameh Anvarizadeh ’05, MA ’06, OTD ’07, will be the keynote speaker at the USC Chan Division’s 2026 Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, 2026, at the University Park Campus.
Anvarizadeh became president of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), the national professional association representing the interests of occupational therapy practitioners, in July 2025. She has previously served AOTA in the roles of vice president, chair of the Credential Review and Accountability Committee (CRAC), as a member of the Representative Assembly Leadership Committee (RALC), as a member of the Governance Task Force and as a member of the Special Task Force on Entry-Level Education.
She is a founding member of the Coalition of Occupational Therapy Advocates for Diversity (COTAD), responsible for developing the COTAD toolkit, the Ignite Series and COTAD chapters at educational institutions. She is also an alumna of the Executive Leadership Program for Multicultural Women.
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