Candace Valenzuela ’06 began her political career when she ran for office in 2017 and was elected to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District board in Texas as an at-large representative, defeating an 1…

Luis Valdez, playwright; author, Zoot Suit (1977) and La Bamba (1987); "Hemispheric American" (McKenna Auditorium)  

Horace Clarence Boyer, professor of music, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; co-author, We'll Understand It Better By and By (1993) and New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986); "The Old Ship of Zion: African A…

Stacey Kabat, director, Battered Women Fighting Back!; co-producer of documentary "Defending Our Lives" (1993)  

Kenton Youngstrom, guitar; "Classical and Jazz Guitar: A Musical Journey Through Three Centuries of Guitar Music"  

Cornel West, professor of Afro-American studies, Harvard University; author, Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) and "Race Matters" (1993) (McKenna Auditorium)  

Suzi Landolphi, AIDS activist; author, "Hot, Sexy, and Safer" (1994)  

D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, co-directors of documentary films Rockaby (1983) and "The War Room" (1993)