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Commencement Keynote Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients

2024 Honorary Degree Recipients

Theron Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Timothy Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Caroline F. Fawkes
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2023 Honorary Degree Recipients

Michael Eric Dyson, PH.D
Keynote Speaker
Edward Thomas Sr.
Orville E. Kean Campus
Clema Lewis
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2022 Honorary Degree Recipients

Marcella Nunez-Smith
Orville E. Kean Campus
Justa Encarnacion
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2021 Honorary Degree Recipients

Raphael Warnock
Keynote Speaker
Wilma Lewis
Orville E. Kean Campus
Alexandar Moorehead
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2020 Honorary Degree Recipients

Loretta Lynch, Esq.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Eugene Peterson, MD
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Hannibal Ware
Orville E. Kean Campus

2019 Honorary Degree Recipients

Bakari Sellers, Esq.
Keynote Speaker
Cornel Williams
Orville E. Kean Campus
Simon Jones-Hendrickson
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2018 Honorary Degree Recipients

Danny Glover
Keynote Speaker
Athneil “Addie” Ottley
Orville E.Kean Campus
Holland Redfield
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2017 Honorary Degree Recipients

Iyanla Vanzant
Keynote Speaker
Ruth E. Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Stanley Jacobs
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2016 Honorary Degree Recipients

Richard Schrader
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Ruth Moolenaar
Orville E. Kean Campus

2015 Honorary Degree Recipients

Marian Wright Edelman, JD
Keynote Speaker
Charles Wesley Turnbull
Orville E. Kean Campus
Ruth Harrigan Beagles
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2014 Honorary Degree Recipients

Horace Clarke
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Ron deLugo
Orville E. Kean Campus

2013 Honorary Degree Recipients

Kweisi Mfume
Keynote Speaker
Terence Todman
Orville E. Kean Campus
George Tyson
Albert A. Sheen Campus

2012 Honorary Degree Recipients

Beverly Tatum, Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker
Donna Christensen, MD
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Alfred E. Heath
Orville E. Kean Campus

2011 Honorary Degree Recipients

Johnetta B. Cole
Orville E. Kean Campus