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Commencement + Convocation Speakers

Whether you are booking a speaker for your commencement or convocation, these speakers inspire students and the wider college community alike, offering advice and words of encouragement.

Bill Burnett

Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Dave Evans

Co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Dr. Mona Hanna

Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis

Cheryl Strayed

Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist

Javier Zamora

Memoirist, poet, and author of Solito, and a winner of the 2023 American Book Award.

More Commencement + Convocation Speakers

Ken Burns

Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker

Jay Ellis

NAACP Image Award-winning actor, director, producer, and author of Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?

Angus Fletcher

Professor of story science and author of Primal Intelligence (August 2025)

Casey Gerald

Author of There Will Be No Miracles Here

Oliver Jeffers

World-Renowned Picture Book Maker and Artist

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award-winning historian and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

Theresa MacPhail

Medical anthropologist and author of Allergic

Jenny Odell

New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

Kwame Onwuachi

James Beard award-winning chef and Top Chef guest judge

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Princeton University professor and author of Undocumented

Dr. Aomawa Shields

Astronomer, astrobiologist, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Chris Smalls

Labor organizer and president and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union

Jacob Tobia

LGBTQ+ rights activist, actor, and writer

Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author