Our Speakers Bureau addresses undergraduates on the role free speech has played, and may continue to play, in advancing civil rights. Topics include free speech history, practice, and contemporary focal points like censorship, technology, and race relations. Speakers have visited dozens of campuses from Ivys and public research universities to community colleges and the Christian liberal arts.

We will cover the cost of speakers’ honoraria and travel. If you or student groups you work with want to explore bringing a speaker to campus, please email us at VFLI@gmu.edu with the subject line: “Speaker Inquiry: Campus Group Name, University.” Scroll down for bureau listings and topics, and click speaker names to access full bios.

Rajshree Agarwal

Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship; Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets
Topics: Self-Censorship, Campus Speech, Free Thought

Enrique Armijo

Professor of Law; Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Topics: First Amendment, Media Law, Online Disinformation

David E. Bernstein

Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center; University Professor of Law
Topics: Free Speech, Minority Rights

David L. Bernstein

Founder and CEO, Jewish Institute for Liberal Values
Topics: Free Expression, Classical Liberalism, Jewish Thought

Emily
Chamlee-Wright

President and CEO, Institute for Humane Studies
Topics: Illiberalism, Classical Liberalism on Campus, Civil Discourse

JoAnn Koob

Director, Liberty and Law Center; Assistant Professor of Law; Lola C. Reinsch Public Interest Fellow
Topics: Free Speech, Press, Civil Rights

William Mattox

Director of the J. Stanley Marshall Center for Education Freedom at the James Madison Institute
Topics: Counter Speech, Free Speech in History

Matthew Metzgar

Clinical Professor of Economics
Topics: Campus Culture, Teaching Innovations

Christopher Newman

Associate Professor of Law
Topics: Free Speech, Intellectual Property

Cece O’Leary

Southeastern Legal Foundation Attorney and Director of SLF’s 1A Project
Topics: Founding Principles, Government Interference

Christine Rosen

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Topics: Social Media, Self-Censorship, Free Expression

Greg Salmieri

Senior Scholar of Philosophy, Salem Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Topics: Free Society, Free Speech

Erec Smith

Associate Professor of Rhetoric, York College of Pennsylvania
Topics: Free Speech, Viewpoint Diversity

Tara Smith

Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Topics: Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Nadine Strossen

John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School
Topics: Discussion and Dissent, History and Practice of Free Speech

Eugene Volokh

Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Topics: First Amendment, Free Speech Legal Overlay

Devon Westhill

President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity
Topics: Free Speech, Free Society, Affirmative Action

John Wood, Jr.

National Ambassador for Braver Angels
Topics: Polarization, Racism, Multiculturalism, Free Speech