First Year Experience & Community Reads
Community/Common Read and First Year Experience programs shape students’ lives on campus. Our energetic speakers best suited for these programs write about diversity, gender issues, global and national crises. These books and speakers will keep your classes engaged in discussion all year long.
Warren Berger

Innovation Expert, Best-Selling Author

 W. Bruce Cameron

Best-Selling Author and Screenwriter

 Joshua Davis

Writer, Film Producer

 Jeffrey Eugenides

Award-Winning Novelist & Essayist

 Melissa Fleming

Head of Communications & Chief Spokesperson for the UNHCR

 Kristin Hannah

#1 New York Times Bestselling Novelist

 Kimberly Jones

Activist, Best-Selling Author

 Ken Kwapis

Award-winning Director in Multiple Film and Television Series

 Meg Lowman

Author, Explorer, Scientist, Arbornaut

 Kate Murphy

Journalist and Contributor to the New York Times and The Economist

 Emily Nemens

Writer, Illustrator, Editor of The Paris Review

 Ben Rawlence

Author, Human Rights Activist

 Dax-Devlon Ross

Author, Journalist, Social Impact and Equity Consultant

 Aarti Namdev Shahani

Award-Winning NPR Journalist, Best-Selling Author

 Dashka Slater

Bestselling Author, Journalist for The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones

 Damon Tweedy

Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Author