The first year of college can be an exciting and challenging time for students. By encouraging summer reading or seminar classes, students can immediately form a common bond and a way to ease into their new and exciting academic lives. Keppler on Campus is pleased to share our roster of distinguished speakers and writers with your students! Sharing these great stories, books, and speakers will help teach amazing and important lessons, and will help forge unforgettable friendships during the pivotal freshman year.

	John Bul Dau Lost Boy of Sudan Featured in the Film God Grew Tired of Us
	Arun Gandhi Peace Activist and Proponent of Nonviolence
	Nikki Giovanni Author, Poet, Essayist, and Professor
	Myla Goldberg Author of Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy
	Jonathan Kozol Award-Winning Author and Advocate for Educational Equality
	Esmeralda Santiago Author and Storyteller
	Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Critic
	Jeannette Walls Best-Selling Author of The Glass Castle