Alicia Garza

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September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals

Michael Bennett

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June 17, 2020 | Defensive end with the New England Patriots and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

Priyamvada Natarajan

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May 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens

David Cole

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February 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Sheena Iyengar

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March 14, 2019 | Social psychologist

Janet Mock

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Fall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights

Eric Shinseki

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Spring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs

Joseph Stiglitz

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March 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia

Van Jones

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March 19, 2012 | CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).

Jose Antonio Vargas

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Fall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American

Mark Bittman

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February 18, 2016 | New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).