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Fall 2025
Check this page again soon for more information on the Fall 2025 Commencement Keynote Speakers.
- Spring 2025 – Ed Dwight, Astronaut and Sculptor
- 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