Phillip Hoose
Guest Speaker 2020NationalĀ Book Award Winning Author, Musician, Conservationist Author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and The Race To Save The Lord God Bird
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NationalĀ Book Award Winning Author, Musician, Conservationist Author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and The Race To Save The Lord God Bird
Reyna Grande
Guest Speaker 2019ĀAmerican Book Award Recipient
Author of the memoir The Distance Between Us
Thomas/Ortiz Dance
Guest Speaker 2018"Birmingham to BaltimoreāĀ
A dance troupe performance connectingĀ social justice issues of the 1960s to present day
Reverend Wayne Meisel ā73
Guest Speaker 2017Member, Presidentās Commission on National and Community Service; Founding President of Bonner Foundation; Executive Director of the Center for Faith and Service at McCormick Theological Seminary
William Kamkwamba
Guest Speaker 2016ĀAuthor of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Malawian innovator andĀ engineer
At the Table with Dr. King
Guest Speaker 2015Bringing the Civil Rights Movement to LifeĀ
through music, poetry, video, and Dr. Kingās own words
Rohan Murphy
Guest Speaker 2014Ā Penn State University Wrestler, Competitive Weightlifter, American Paralympian, and Motivational Speaker
Grace Akallo
Guest Speaker 2013Ā Author of Girl Soldier Lordās Resistance Army Child Soldier turned Activist
Travis Roy
Guest Speaker 2012Author of Eleven Seconds
Former Boston University Hockey Player
Founder Travis Roy Foundation for Spinal Cord Injuries
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Guest Speaker 2011Author of Four Perfect Pebbles
Holocaust Survivor
Sandra and George Groom
Guest Speakers 2010Former Rectory Parents and Faculty Civil Rights Activists