Xyza Cruz Bacani, a former domestic worker who has since become a photographer, is one of the graduates raising the Philippine flag at New York University.
that she had just graduated with a master's degree in arts and politics at NYU.
"I am a scholar and grateful to people who paved the way for me to dream, who saw my potential and extended their generosity," she said."I am an artist. I always have been and always will be an artist in service because I am not my circumstances," Bacani said.
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