“Most of our group has by no means danced earlier than, so it’s an excellent inclusive setting,” she mentioned.

“It was an honor a) to simply unfold smiles and b) to be requested in this kind of occasion. To be a South Asian dance group and to be requested to carry out is a large honor … We simply wished to be ‘hype,’ and we wished to rejoice at this time, and that’s what Bhangra is actually about.”

Veronica Leahy ’23 led a gaggle of pupil, alumni, and Berklee musicians enjoying one in all her unique compositions throughout the inauguration procession. Grabbing a fast chew afterward, she mentioned she loved the chance and was excited for the president’s future tenure.

“I believe we discovered a extremely superior group of musicians, and we have been simply up there jamming out and having quite a lot of enjoyable,” she mentioned. “I can inform she actually cares. She needs to get to know individuals. And in order that makes me actually excited.”

Ebonée Inexperienced, a first-year proctor and educating fellow on the Graduate College of Schooling, got here out within the rain with one in all her former first-years to rejoice the historic occasion.