Speakers

Kristine Billmyer, Ph.D.

Dean Emerita, Professor of Professional Practice, Program Director, Strategic Communication

Troy Blackwell Jr. (’27SPS)

Student

Lee Carter

President and Partner, maslansky + partners; Author, Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter

Zoe Carey

Servicing Representative, Higher Education Department, UAW

Raquel Chavez

Producer, The Verbatim Salon

Eric Chen, Ph.D.

Director, Media and Community Lab, Columbia Journalism School

Frisca Christabella (’26SPS)

Student

Skye Cleary, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Jason Cone

Chief Public Policy Officer, Robin Hood Foundation

Keyao (Bella) Du (’26SPS)

Student

Christelle El-Drouby (’26SPS)

Student

Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Environment, Community, & Equity; Professor, School of International Service, American University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Jeremy Heimans

Co-founder and Chairman at Purpose; Co-author, New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize, and Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age

Scott Illingworth

Associate Arts Professor, New York University

Anthony Jeanmarie IV (’26SPS)

Student

DJ Koessler (’14SPS)

Founder, Koessler Strategies; Capstone Advisor, Strategic Communication

Roberto Lara Aranda (’22SPS)

Director of Communications, Global Outreach, Fetzer Institute; Lecturer, Strategic Communication; Executive Director, Select Learning; Interim Executive Director, Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries

Katherine Ma (’26SPS)

Student

Josh MacPhee

Founder, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive; Author, Graphic Liberation

Shanelle Matthews

Distinguished Lecturer, The City College of New York; Editor and co-author, Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements