College & University

Our talented speakers are skilled at connecting with young audiences, and schools often select them for freshmen-year experience programs, convocations, and distinguished speaker series. They are inspiring lecturers who strive to relate to today’s youth and student groups.

Freshman Year Experience (FYE)

Peter Buffett

Emmy Award-winning musician, author, and philanthropist

Sampson Davis

Medical doctor, inspirational speaker and education champion

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Bestselling novelist and co-founder of The Camellia Network, assisting foster care youth

Michael Greenberg

Bestselling Author and FYE Favorite

Kristen Iversen

Award-winning author and MFA Program director at University of Memphis

Carlotta Walls LaNier

Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, Civil Rights Advocate

Dr. Vincent Lam

Author of The Headmaster's Wager, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, and Emergency Room Physician

Colum McCann

Author of the National Book Award-winning novel, Let the Great World Spin

Christopher McDougall

Author, journalist and innovator of the Barefoot-Running Movement

Jerry McGill

Writer, artist, activist and inspirational speaker

Josh Neufeld

Award-winning comics journalist and author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

Téa Obreht

National Book Award Finalist, Orange Prize Winner, and Author of The Tiger's Wife

Mary Doria Russell

Prize-winning novelist and international bestseller

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Award-winning author and memoirist

Neil Shubin

Evolutionary Biologist and Discoverer of the "Missing Link"

Helen Simonson

International bestseller and community read favorite

Darin Strauss

Bestselling novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

Alexa von Tobel

Personal Finance Expert, Founder/CEO of LearnVest.com

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, The Warmth of Other Suns

Markus Zusak

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Book Thief, a Book Club Favorite and Beloved Novel Embraced by Readers of All Ages