College & Theater Events

<p>Dr. Scott Parazynski is a highly decorated physician, astronaut, explorer, technology startup founder and CEO who applies the lessons of calculated risk in extreme environment exploration to leadership, teamwork and innovation.</p><p>A graduate of Stanford University and Medical School, Dr. Parazynski trained at Harvard and in Denver in preparation for a career in emergency medicine and trauma. In 1992, he was selected to join NASA’s Astronaut Corps.

<p>Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</p><p>With a career that has taken him from Mexico City to London to Shanghai, Vijay Vaitheeswaran brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise to topics ranging from globalization, politics and economics to international trade, supply chain and labor disruptions.

<p>Cameron Kasky is an American activist and advocate against gun violence who co-founded the student-led gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD.</p>

<p>He is also the co-founder of March for Our Lives nationwide student protest in March 2018. Kasky is a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He’s been featured in <i>Time Magazine</i>, and has appeared in dozens of talk shows, podcasts and news station throughout the U.S.</p>

Richie Reseda is a music, film and content producer, who was freed from prison in 2018.

He co-created and co-hosts the Spotify Original podcast “Abolition X.” While in prison he started Question Culture, the independent media collective that houses his projects, and cofounded Success Stories, the feminist program for incarcerated men chronicled in the CNN documentary, "The Feminist on Cell Block Y."

<p>The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with dignity, no matter their background. When she became Newark Municipal Court’s chief judge, she knew well the inequities that poor, mentally ill, Black, and brown people faced in the criminal justice system.</p><p>Judge Victoria has gained national and international acclaim for her commitment to reform the criminal justice system.

<p>Former FOX News chief political correspondent and revered “dean” of the presidential campaign press corps, Carl Cameron gives audiences a front-row seat to the latest happenings in Washington, D.C.

<p>Born into poverty and a culture that excluded girls from education, Dr. Tererai Trent shares her stunning journey from rural Zimbabwe to a global advocate for literacy that has helped transform education in her country and illuminated the pathway for women around the world to realize their dreams.</p>

Dascha Polanco is well-known for her groundbreaking roles in Hollywood as a leading young Latina actress. Polanco is recognized for her role as “Dayanara Diaz” on the hit Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black.

<p>Josh Radnor is a multifaceted artist, captivating audiences with his scene-stealing roles on screen and on stage, while also showcasing his talents as a writer, director and musician.</p><p>Radnor toplined NBC’s new series, <i>Rise</i>, inspired by Michael Sokolove’s novel <i>Drama High</i> and the famed theatre program at Harry S. Truman High School, the music-infused drama is about finding inspiration in unexpected places.

<p>Model, Actress, Author, Advocate and Activist Dominique Jackson is best known for her leading role of Elektra Abundance on the FX television series <i>Pose</i>.</p><p>From fleeing persecution as a transgender woman in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago to starring in television hits, Dominique Jackson has seen it all.