What would you say about a speaker series that has included Barack Obama, Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Maya Angelou, David McCullough, Elie Wiesel, Robert Duvall, Val Kilmer, Coretta Scott King, and Margaret Thatcher, just to name a few? And Principia College students didn’t just get to hear these people speak from a distance. With most speakers, there are opportunities to interact. Robert Duvall taught an acting class when he was here, and Barack Obama met with a group of students the night he spoke on campus. You never know who’s going to stop by.
| September 9, 2011 | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist George Will |
| September 29, 2011 | Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson |
| October 20, 2011 | Congolese Genocide Survivor and Humanitarian Rose Mapendo |
| November 10, 2011 | Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News Lara Logan |
| February 2, 2012 | Native American Historian and Former U.S. Park Ranger Minoma Littlehawk |
| February 11, 2012 | Motivational Speaker and Former NCAA Division I Basketball Coach Greg White |
| February 24, 2012 | Christian Science Monitor Editor, John Yemma |
| March 30, 2012 | Movie and Television Actor Matt Lauria and Singer and Recording Artist Michelle Armstrong |
| April 19, 2012 | Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Director of the Center for Regional Sustainability at San Diego State University Geoffrey Chase |