The class of 2022 at UMass Boston – some 3,900 undergraduates, graduate, and doctoral students – will hear from the mayor of Boston at their commencement on May 27. The university announced on Wednesday that Michelle Wu, the city’s first elected female mayor, will give the keynote address at the event, which will be held— for the first time ever— at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center in South Boston.  Wu graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

“It is a privilege and an honor to have Mayor Wu address our graduates,” Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco said in a statement. “It is also fitting in that Mayor Wu shares with so many of our students the immigrant experience, the value of diversity, and the commitment to effect positive change in our society. We look forward to welcoming her to Boston’s public research university.”