Organizing Lectures
Individual Lecture Fund members reach out to speakers, inviting them to give a lecture on campus. We then collaborate on the financial, logistical, and marketing details to bring events to life!
Co-sponsoring Events
The Lecture Fund provides financial, logistical, and/or marketing assistance to campus organizations or individual students with their events. Please refer to our Co-Sponsor section for more details!
Assisting the University
Throughout the school year, the University occasionally requests the logistical assistance of Lecture Fund members for various large-scale events.
Associate Board
Every semester the Lecture Fund accepts applications for our Associate Board from students of all levels of experience. Members on the Associate Board help organize lectures, manage cosponsorships, and manage our organization.
Shaun King, Civil Rights Activist
“Young people are frustrated...they feel like the system itself failed them. Like the nation failed them. The country failed them."
Rupi Kaur, Author of
Milk and Honey
"i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy"
Edward Snowden, Whistleblower
"Privacy is the right to the self. And how does that happen? That happens by trying things and failing. And then trying again and succeeding."
Bradley Cooper, Actor
"Just fall on your face. Who cares? Really, it’s the only way you’re going to learn. The only way. God help you if you never fail.”
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney,
Comedians
“The time after college is a time to take some risks and do whatever it is that’s in your heart. The main philosophy that I took upon graduating was that I was more scared of regret than rejection.”
President Barack Obama (2006)
“The Achilles heel of the most powerful nation on earth is the oil we cannot live without."
Warren Buffett, Investor and Philanthropist
"It's very hard to write regulations that will keep people from acting foolishly, particularly when acting foolishly has been proven very profitable over the preceding few years."
Stephen A. Smith, Sports Commentator
“They were telling me I was stupid and I wasn’t going to be anybody. And I said, ‘We’ll see.’ And from that day forward I was on a mission. And my mission was one thing, above all else: No one would ever laugh at me again.”
Peter Thiel, Venture Capitalist
“We live in a world in which courage is in much shorter supply than genius."
Ali Stroker, First Wheelchair Actress on Broadway
“Broadway theaters by law have to be accessible for audience members with disabilities...It should be the same for someone in the show.”
Saroo Brierley, Subject of the film Lion
“I’d learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came—if they came—and to look forward to the future.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author and Activist
“The crime of enslavement is at the root, which extends through the trunk and out into the branches and into the leaves of this country, and you cannot get away from it...you take slavery away, you don’t have a country. You take away the labor and the profits that were made, and you don’t have a country.“
LaRussell, Musician
Nadya Okamoto, Social Entrepreneur
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Author Rebecca Kuang
Zan Haq
Chair
Bailey Coghlan
Vice Chair of External Affairs
External outreach and marketing
Will Lefever
Vice Chair of Internal Affairs
Recruitment
Sophia Ceriello
Vice Chair of Finance
Management of funding and fiscal year allocations
Kumail Zaidi
Vice Chair of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA)
Promotion of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility within all organizational processes and events
Kathleen Felli
Vice Chair of Event Coordination
Liam McGraw
Chief of Staff
Internal management of Associate Board and events
Martina Aucejo
Secretary
Jackie Bucaro
Associate Board
Lia Bull- Krieg
Associate Board
Maria Luiza Campos
Associate Board
Anthony Chen
Associate Board
Jack Dougherty
Associate Board
Grace Cohn
Associate Board
Gabe Fleisher
Associate Board
Lea George
Associate Board
Alara Karahan
Associate Board
Kristy Li
Associate Board
Veronika Lin
Associate Board
Amelia Myre
Associate Board
Amelia Scott
Associate Board
Matthew Tierney
Associate Board
Brenda Zhong
Associate Board
