List of Speakers sponsored by the University in excess of $500
2025
- Constitution Day Conversation: Telling Your Story for Civic Action
- Dr. Ashley Nickels, Associate Professor, Kent State University, September 17, 2025, $1329.70
- Shawnee Game Conference Keynote Speaker
- Jose Araiza, November 7, 2025, $1000
- ShawneeXP Pre-Accelerator Program: "Validating Your Game Design: Ways to Confirm the
Potential of Your Game Idea Before Launch"
- Oscar Clark, September 7, 2025, $1000
- ShawneeXP Pre-Accelerator Program: "You Have Your Idea, Now What? Don’t Make It Perfect,
Make It Work."
- Jennifer Estaris, September 7, 2025, $1000
- ShawneeXP Pre-Accelerator Program: "Developing an Audience While Developing Your Game."
- Ash Cason, September 7, 2025, $1000
- ShawneeXP Pre-Accelerator Program: "Studio & Team Alignment"
- Graham McAllister, September 7, 2025, $1000
2026
- Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series: "A Clean Hell; Anarchy and Abolition
in America's Most Notorious Dungeon"
- Eric King, February 23, 2026, $3000
- Celebration of Scholarship Keynote Speaker: "Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset:
Turning Ideas into Impact Across Every Discipline."
- Dr. Lisa Bosman, April 8, 2026, $1836.54
- Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series: "Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices
Queering Appalachia."
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Zane McNeill, September 21, 2026, $3000
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- Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series: "Authoritarian Resilience and Asymmetric
Stateness in the Middle East: Implications for Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction."
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Steven Heydemann, October 28, 2026, $2500
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- America 250-Ohio: Ohio's Game Changers: "Exploring the legacy of Branch Rickey."
- Panel Members: Al Oliver, Leslie Heaphy, Jerry Holt, $1500 each panel member