Previous Commencements

  • 2023 - John Lowe
  • 2022 - Bryan Stevenson
  • 2021 - Deanna Reed, Mayor of Harrisonburg
  • 2020 - Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman, EMU president
  • 2019 - Dr. Judy Mullet, psychology professor
  • 2018 - Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee MA ’07.
  • 2017- Speaker Dr. Howard Zehr, distinguished professor of restorative justice
  • 2016 – Former EMU president, Dr. Loren Swartzentruber
  • 2015 – Author and Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne urges EMU’s Class of 2015 to ‘never stop learning’
  • 2014 – Speaker Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate
  • 2013 – Speaker Mark Shriver, senior vice president for strategic initiatives and senior advisor to the chief executive officer of Save the Children U.S. Programs
  • 2012 – Speaker Abigail Disney, award-winning filmmaker and philanthropist
  • 2011 – Speaker Mike Berenstain, writer and illustrator of the Berenstain Bears
  • 2010 – Speaker Joseph B. Martin, former dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and EMU alumnus
  • 2009 – Speaker Joyce Bontrager Lehman, microfinance officer of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Financial Services for the Poor” initiative and EMU alumnus
  • 2008 – Speaker Beryl H. Brubaker, EMU provost and professor
  • 2007 – Speaker Lee F. Snyder, president emeritus of Bluffton (Ohio) University
  • 2006 – Speaker Rev. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of the U.S.
  • 2005 – Speaker John L. McCullough, executive director and CEO of Church World Service
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