More information about the Spring 2025 Commencement speaker will be updated here as it becomes available. Please check this page again at a later date.
Fall 2024 – Marissa Molina, MSU Denver Board of Trustees and Director of Career Connected Learning at HCM Strategies & Rowena Alegría ’91, Chief Storyteller for the City and County of Denver
Spring 2024 – Brittany Pettersen ’06, U.S. Rep. for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District
Fall 2023 – Bobby LeFebre ’04, Colorado’s 8th Poet Laureate & Kathy Sabine, Chief Meteorologist at 9NEWS
Spring 2023 – Michael B. Hancock, Denver Mayor
Fall 2022 – Elias Diggins ’99, Denver Sheriff & Gary Striewski ’10
Spring 2022 – Leslie Herod, CO House Rep. & Yolanda Ortega
Fall 2021 – General Laura J. Richardson
Spring 2021 – Monica M. Marquez, Colorado Supreme Court Justice
Spring and Fall 2020 – Roger W. Ferguson, President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA
Fall 2019 – Admiral James G. Stravidis, retired US Navy admiral and bestselling author
Spring 2019 – Angie Paccione, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education
Fall 2018 – Michelle Lucero, Chief Administrative Officer and general counsel for Children’s Hospital Colorado
Spring 2018 – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of New York Times bestselling books
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