John M. Barry, historian and biographer of Roger Williams, will address the Roger Williams University commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on the University’s main athletic field.

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Tom Friedman, a conceptual sculptor, will keynote Montserrat College's 2013 commencement on Friday, May 17, at 10 a.m. at the Cabot Street Cinema Theatre in Beverly, Mass.

John M. Barry, historian and biographer of Roger Williams, will address the Roger Williams University commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on the University’s main athletic field.

Mary E. Kennard will address the University of Rhode Island's graduate commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 1 p.m. at the Thomas M. Ryan Center. Alex and Ani, CEO Giovanni Feroce will address undergraduates on Sunday, May 19 at 12:30 p.m., also at the Thomas M. Ryan Center.

Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator of The One Fund Boston effort to raise money for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, will keynote Curry College's commencement on Sunday, May 19, at 9:30 a.m. at the D. Forbes Will Athletic Complex.

Ted Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and advocate for people with disabilities, will keynote the University of New Haven commencement ceremony to be held at the Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre on Sunday, May 19, at 10 a.m. As second ceremony at 3 p.m. will feature remarks from U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.).

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin will address Marlboro College's 66th graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 19, at 10:30 a.m.

Anne Fadiman, author, essayist and teacher, will keynote the College of the Holy Cross’s commencement on Friday, May 24, at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.

U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) will keynote the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology's 33rd commencement on Sunday, June 2, at 11 a.m. at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, which serves more than 10,000 children in underprivileged city neighborhoods, will keynote Dartmouth College’s 2013 commencement on Sunday, June 9, at 10 a.m. on the Green.

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Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, a leader in environmental sustainability, corporate responsibility and social justice, will keynote Green Mountain College’s 176th commencement  on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. on the Griswold Library lawn

Max Mutchnick, Emmy Award winner and co-creator of the television show Will & Grace, will deliver the undergraduate address at Emerson College’s 133rd commencement on Sunday, May 12, at 10 a.m. at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, recognized for his leadership in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, will address graduates at UMass Lowell’s commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 9 a.m. in the Tsongas Center.

U.S. Sen. Angus S. King Jr. (I-Maine) will keynote the University of New England's 178th commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on the grass adjacent to Sokokis Hall on UNE’s Biddeford Campus.

Mara Liasson, a political correspondent for National Public Radio, will keynote the University of Maine School of Law's commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland.

Gary Hirshberg, co-founder and chair of the organic yogurt producer Stonyfield Farm, will deliver the Bates College commencement address on Sunday, May 26 at 10 a.m. on the Historic Quad.

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Kenneth I. Chenault, chair and CEO of American Express Company, will keynote the undergraduate commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, May 10, at 5 p.m. in McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

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Kenneth I. Chenault, chair and CEO of American Express Company, will keynote the undergraduate commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, May 10, at 5 p.m. in McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, will keynote the commencement ceremony at Saint Joseph's College, in Maine on Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. on the college’s Standish campus.

Video artist, conceptualist, photographer and painter William Wegman will keynote the University of Maine at Farmington’s commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 18, at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.

Ben Bernanke, chair of the Federal Reserve, will address graduates at the 44th commencement ceremony of Bard College at Simon’s Rock on Saturday, May 18, at 11 a.m. on the college's Blodgett Lawn.

Paul Baumann, editor of Commonweal magazine, will keynote Sacred Heart University’s graduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 18, at 1:30 p.m. E. Patricia Llodra, first selectman of Newtown, Conn., will keynote the university's 47th annual undergraduate commencement on Sunday, May 19, at 11 a.m.

Claude M. Steele, noted researcher on how stereotypes influence group performance from academics to athletics, will deliver Tufts University's commencement address on Sunday, May 19, at 9 a.m. on The Green on Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus.

The Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., president of Loyola University Chicago and a national figure in Jesuit higher education, will address undergraduates at Fairfield University's 63rd commencement on Sunday, May 19, at 9:30 a.m. on the campus's Bellarmine Lawn. Dr. Patrick W. Kelley, a director with the U.S. National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, will speak at the graduate ceremony at 3 p.m.

Bridget M. McCormack, who was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court last year and is former co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, will keynote Trinity College’s 187th commencement on Sunday, May 19, at 11 a.m. in the campus Quadrangle.

Lucie Salhany, who was appointed the first woman chair of a major broadcasting network in 1993, will deliver the commencement address for Lasell College on Sunday, May 19, at 11 a.m. on Taylor Field.

Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post will keynote Smith College's 135th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19, at 10 a.m. in the campus Quadrangle.

Raytheon Chair and CEO William H. Swanson will keynote Bunker Hill Community College’s 39th commencement exercises on June 1, at 11 a.m.

Dr. Paul Farmer, a physician and co-founder of Partners In Health, will keynote College of the Atlantic's commencement ceremony on June 8, at 2 p.m. Partners In Health is an international nonprofit organization providing direct health care services, research and advocacy on behalf of people who are sick and living in poverty.

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Rebecca Onie, cofounder and CEO of Health Leads, will deliver the keynote address at MGH Institute of Health Professions’ 2013 commencement on Thursday, May 9.

Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox will deliver the keynote at Berklee College of Music on Saturday, May 11 at Boston University's Agganis Arena.

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Rebecca Onie, cofounder and CEO of Health Leads, will deliver the keynote address at MGH Institute of Health Professions’ 2013 commencement on Thursday, May 9.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will keynote Nichols College’s annual commencement on Saturday, May 11, at 10:30 a.m.

Bert and John Jacobs, co-founders of The Life is good Company, the Boston-based lifestyle brand, will keynote Bentley Univesity's commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on the university's South Campus.

Democracy Now! host and producer Amy Goodman will keynote the 2013 Hampshire College commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 11 a.m., on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn.

Patrick Awuah Jr., founder and president of Ashesi University College in Ghana, will address Babson College's undergraduate commencement on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. Kip Tindell, chair and CEO of the Container Store, will address the graduate ceremony at 2:30 p.m.

Jazz and classical musician Wynton Marsalis will address the University of Vermont’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19, at 8:20 a.m., on the University Green.

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Cardinal Seán O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston whose name has come up in conversations about a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, will give the commencement address at Regis College on Saturday, May 11.

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Cardinal Seán O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston whose name has come up in conversations about a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, will give the commencement address at Regis College on Saturday, May 11.

Fisher College will feature FOX25 news anchor Maria Stephanos on Saturday, May 11, at 11 a.m. at the John Hancock Hall in the Back Bay Events Center in Boston.

Saint Michael's College will feature political analyst Mark Shields on Sunday, May 12, at 10 a.m. at the college's 106^th commencement.

The University of Saint Joseph will feature Nancy Staisey, vice president of Smarter Cities, North America at IBM, at its 78^th commencement on Sunday, May 12, at 10 a.m. on the south lawn of the university’s West Hartford campus.

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Ronald Noble, the first American to head the international policing organization INTERPOL, will keynote the University of New Hampshire's 142nd commencement ceremony on Saturday May 19 at 10 a.m. on Memorial Field.

Paul S. Grogan, president of The Boston Foundation, will deliver the commencement address at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology's 104^th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19 at 10 a.m. at the college’s historic auditorium.

Janet L. Robinson, former president and CEO of The New York Times Co., will keynote Wheaton College’s 177th commencement exercises on Saturday, May 19. at 10 a.m. outdoors in the Dimple.

Maria Eitel, president and CEO of the Nike Foundation, will keynote Babson College's undergraduate commencement on May 19 at 10 a.m. Reid Hoffman, executive chair of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock Partners, will address the master's ceremony at 2:30 p.m.

Author and educator Salome Thomas-EL will keynote Endicott College's 72d commencement  on Saturday, May 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the college's Stadium.

Cyma Zarghami, president of the Nickelodeon television network, will deliver the address to graduates at the University of Vermont’s 2012 commencement on Sunday, May 20 at 9 a.m. on the University Green.

David Satcher, the 16th Surgeon General of the United States, will address the Massachusetts Schools of Professional Psychology's 32nd commencement on Sunday, June 3 at 11 a.m. at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

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University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst and Connecticut's State Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz will be among 14 speakers to address UConn graduates on Sunday, May 6. Herbst, will speak at 12:30 p.m., and Katz at 5 p.m. in UConn's Harry A. Gampel Pavilion.

Carolyn Lynch, CEO of the Lynch Foundation established by she and her husband Peter in 1987, and Amy Lind Corbett, the New England Regional Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration, will deliver Regis College's commencement addresses on Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m., in the Tower Gardens.

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Eileen M. Collins, the first female commander of a NASA space shuttle mission, will speak at Bunker Hill Community College’s 38th commencement exercises on Saturday, June 2, when the college expects to graduate its largest class to date.

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Carole Cornelison, commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management, will deliver the commencement address at Wentworth Institute of Technology, on Sunday, May 6, at 10 a.m., on the Wentworth campus's main quadrangle.

Author Andre Dubus III will speak at New England College’s 65th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 11 a.m. on the college's Simon Green.

Author Tom De Haven will keynote the Center for Cartoon Studies 2012 commencement ceremony to be held at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, Vt., on Saturday, May 12, at 11 a.m.

Dom Sagolla, co-creator of Twitter, will keynote Becker College's 224th commencement ceremony on Monday, May 14, at 11 a.m., at the Hanover Theatre in downtown Worcester.

Boston Red Sox President/CEO Larry Lucchino will deliver the commencement address to approximately 1,000 Bentley University undergraduate students on Saturday, May 19, at 10 a.m. on the university's south campus.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and poet and cultural critic Lewis Hyde will keynote the University of Hartford’s undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20, both at 10 a.m. on the lawn in front of the Gengras Student Union. Hyde will address the graduate ceremony on Saturday. Blumenthal will address the undergraduate ceremony on Sunday.

Former U.S. ambassador Nancy Brinker, who is founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, and Stephen Schwarzman, CEO and co-founder of the financial services firm Blackstone, will address Quinnipiac University's 1,400 graduating students on the academic quad of the Mount Carmel Campus on Sunday, May 20, during ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Eric Booth, who in recent years has devoted himself to furthering the El Sistema movement, will give the commencement address at New England Conservatory on Sunday, May 20, at 3 p.m., in NEC’s Jordan Hall.

Lalla Essaydi, an artist whose work combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, will deliver the commencement address to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, her alma mater, on Sunday, May 20, at 6 p.m.. in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Eric Greitens, an award-winning humanitarian, author and Navy SEAL officer, will deliver Tufts University’s commencement address on May 20, at 9 a.m. on the academic quad of Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus.

Television journalist Robert Woodruff, who made national headlines after sustaining a traumatic brain injury while reporting on the Iraq war, will address Boston College's 136th commencement ceremony, on Monday, May 21, at 10 a.m., in BC's Alumni Stadium.

Paul Farmer, founding director of Partners In Health, will address College of the Holy Cross commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.

Columnist and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry will address Wellesley College’s 134th commencement exercises on Friday, May 25,  at 10:30 a.m., on the campus quad.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will keynote the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s undergraduate commencement exercises on Saturday, May 26, at 9 a.m., at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

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