Fawzia Koofi

Former Member of the Afghan Parliament; International Advocate for Women's Rights

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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Karen Tse

Human Rights Defender & Social Entrepreneur; Founder of International Bridges of Justice

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Lisa Kristine

Internationally Recognized Fine-Art Photographer, Humanitarian & Activist

Julianne Malveaux

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Sandra Fluke

Lawyer, Social Justice Advocate, Women's Health Expert

Grover Norquist

Founder & President of Americans for Tax Reform, Author, Board Member of the Center for the National Interest, The Parental Rights Organization & The National Rifle Association

Dr. Francis Collins

Head, Molecular Genetics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute; 16th Director, National Institutes of Health

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Malcolm London

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation; Researcher on Preventing Aging

David Shipler

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Former Foreign Correspondent of The New York Times, Online Writer for The Shipler Report

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Tim Wise

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Marc Kielburger

Co-Founder of the WE Organization, Social Entrepreneur, Humanitarian & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Lea DeLaria

First Openly Gay Comic to Break the Late-Night Talk-Show Barrier; "Big Boo" on "Orange Is the New Black"

Mitzi Miller

Public Speaker & Motivator; Head of Development for Rainforest Entertainment; Former Editor-in-Chief of Ebony & Jet

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

David Horowitz

Nationally Known Author & Lifelong Civil Rights Activist, One of the Founders of the New Left

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Pedro Noguera

Professor of Education, Founder of the Center for the Transformation of Schools UCLA

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Kevin Bales

Professor of Contemporary Slavery, & Research Director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham; Co-Founder of Free the Slaves

Kenneth Roth

Executive Director at Human Rights Watch

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research & Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families; Marriage & Family Historian

Stephanie Coontz - 2020 Evergreen State College Commencement Address