The ASWC Public Speakers Office brings major speakers to campus on a variety of topics. The Office also works with individual organizations to bring speakers that lecture on special interest topics. Some of the recent events sponsored by the Public Speakers Office include:

• Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro
• Salmon Rushdie, author and activist
• Andrew Sullivan, political commentator
• Patricia Williams, author and law professor
• Helen Thomas, white house reporter
• Frank Warren, author and creator of post secrect
• Maya Angelou, author and poet
• Howard Zinn, historian and playwright
• Gloria Anzuldua, poet and essayist
• Morris Dees, civil rights attorney
• Ralph Nader, consumer activist and Green Party presidential candidate
• Cornel West, author and leading intellectual
• Ben Stein, author and actor

Please contact the Public Speakers chair at speakers@whitman.edu if you have any speakers that you would like to see come to campus.