Jamestown Community College has named Miguel Cocerez its student speaker for Saturday's commencement ceremony at its Jamestown campus. Cocerez is a health information technology major from Buffalo who achieved a 3.97 GPA after returning to the classroom for the first time in 20 years. A December graduate, he came to JCC after a career shift into health care sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. That experience helped him discover a passion for supporting people through compassion and kindness.
Cocerez completed his studies entirely online while continuing to work, and credits JCC's commitment to flexible, student-centered learning for making his return to education possible. He hopes to represent students who have faced hardship and self-doubt, drawing on his background growing up in a large Latino family where opportunities sometimes felt out of reach. Cocerez is a recipient of the HIT Award, voted unanimously by the Health Information Technology faculty.
