Keynote Speaker: Bridget Moix, General Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Bridget Moix is a passionate Quaker peace activist, advocate, scholar, practitioner, and mother. She serves as the fifth general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and leads two other Quaker organizations affiliated with FCNL, Friends Place on Capitol Hill and FCNL Education Fund. In this role she supports a staff of 50 leaders and lobbyists, alongside a grassroots network of thousands of advocates around the United States, working to improve U.S. policy for a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.
Moix has spent 30 years combining her Quaker faith with a career focused on U.S. foreign policy and international peacebuilding.
Prior to her current role, she led the creation of the U.S. office of Peace Direct, an international organization that partners with local peacebuilders in conflict zones around the world. She now serves as U.S. board chair for Peace Direct.
Moix has worked with a number of other nongovernmental organizations, including the Quaker United Nations Office (New York City), Casa de los Amigos (Mexico City) , the American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia), Oxfam America (Washington, D.C.), and the Quaker Peace Center (Cape Town, South Africa). She served as a lobbyist with FCNL for 10 years and also worked inside the U.S. government as an Atrocity Prevention Fellow with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Keynote Speaker Bridget Moix, General Secretary
Moix holds a PhD from George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and
Conflict Resolution. She focused her dissertation on understanding the motivations of local peacebuilders and how the international community can better support them.
She is the author of Choosing Peace: Agency and Action in the Midst of War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and a contributing author to Building Peace in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (Josey-Bass; 2006; 2014). Moix writes a monthly column for Religion News Service, which you can follow at religionnews.com/author/bridget-moix.
She has taught courses in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and Quaker studies at several institutions, including Haverford College, Columbia University, George Washington University, American University,
and Eastern Mennonite University.
Moix lives in Washington, D.C., with her two teenage sons who nurture and challenge her peacebuilding skills every day.
Friday, May 15th at 11am EST.
Venue: Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Fairfax Campus
GPS Address: 4373 Mason Pond Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030
Live Stream
The Degree Celebration will be live streamed on George Mason's YouTube Channel.
Important Information below about Commencement and Degree Celebrations
Ticket registration email with the subject "Commencement Tickets Available" will be sent to the George Mason email of all bachelor’s and master’s graduates. Check your spam folder if you do not see it.
Email gmuevent@gmu.edu if you did not receive the email.
Tickets are required to attend the Degree Celebration. Tickets for College Degree Celebrations will be available starting February 27. The deadline to claim tickets is March 31st. If tickets are still available, a second opportunity to register for additional tickets will be announced on April 1st. Graduates will not need a ticket for themselves but are required to present their individual GRAD Pass, obtained through Tassel, for each ceremony they attend. Please only claim the number of tickets that are necessary for your guests. Any guests 2 years old and above will need a ticket.
Center for the Arts important information
All graduates and patrons entering the Center for the Arts will be required to pass through a security gate. Bags and persons may be subject to search by event security. Please limit the items brought into the venue to help us ensure a smooth process and avoid delays.
If you plan to wear a face covering while attending the degree celebration, please be prepared to produce photo identification. For more information, see here.
Please note that noisemakers, balloons, and certain signs are among the items prohibited in the Center for the Arts. For a complete list of prohibited items, see here."
Regalia Purchasing 2026
Purchase or Rent Regalia online
Purchase or Rent Regalia in-person at the bookstore
Regalia Deadlines:
Doctoral —Last day to order if purchasing regalia: March 15
Last day to order rental regalia online: April 1
Bachelors/Masters—Last day to order online: April 19
After that date, purchases available in person at the University Bookstore while supplies last.
Faculty—Last day to order regalia: April 10
Please note:
- Graduates must arrive in regalia (cap and gown) at 9:15am
- entering through the side entrance following directional signs
- Graduates must follow directional signs to the right side entrance of building for check-in (Near Door A6)
- Rehearsal and walk-through at 9:30am
- The ceremony will last approximately and hour and a half
- There will be a brief reception after the ceremony in the lobby, please stay for cake!
- Tickets are required for family and guests provided by the graduate through the Tassel ticketing portal, Graduates don’t need a ticket but must register for a Tassel "Stage Pass" to check in before ceremony
- Doors to CFA will open at 10:15am
- tickets will be needed to enter concert hall, graduates are responsible for sending tickets to family and guests
- Door to concert hall will open at 10:30am
We hope that you are able to join us!
Center for the Arts
Parking Directions
Mason Pond Parking Deck, 4371 Mason Pond Drive, just north of the Center for the Arts on Mason Pond Drive. This deck offers the closest parking and a walkway to the venue. Exit the Mason Pond Parking Deck on the 1st floor or 3rd floor. The Center for the Arts is adjacent to the parking deck, on Mason Pond Drive.
