Livestream Archive:
Class of 2023 - May 20, 2023
Class of 2022 - May 21, 2022
Class of 2020 - April 22, 2022
Class of 2021 - May 22, 2021
Tulane University commencement exercises have a long history of noteworthy keynote speakers:
Ruby Bridges (2021 recap video)
Tim Cook (2019 video)
Hoda Kotb (2016 video)
Maya Rudolph (2015 video)
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (2013 video)
Thomas Friedman (2011)
Anderson Cooper (2010)
Ellen DeGeneres (2009 video)
James Carville (transcript) and Mary Matalin (transcript) (2008)
Brian Williams (2007)
President George H. W. Bush and President William J. Clinton (2006 video)
Michael Lewis (2005)
John Breaux (2004)
David Halberstam (2003)
William Safire (2002)
Marian Wright Edleman (2001)
Walter Isaacson (2000)
Cokie Roberts
Janet Reno
Art Buchwald
Vernon Jordan
Ralph Nader
Andrew Young
Tom Brokaw
Norman Cousins
Dr. Michael DeBakey
Thomas Foley
Lewis Powell
Hon. Corinne "Lindy" Boggs
