- Assumption College: Robert Lewis Jr., chief executive officer of the BASE, a Boston-based nonprofit.
- Augustana College: Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (and a blogger for Inside Higher Ed).
- Babson College: Steve Case, AOL co-founder and Revolution CEO; and Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation.
- Denison University: Jennifer Garner, the actress.
- Framingham State University: U.S. Representative John Lewis.
- Judson University: Makoto Fujimura, the artist and writer.
- Lafayette College: Wes Moore, head of the Robin Hood Foundation.
- Liberty University: Vice President Mike Pence.
- Ohio State University: Fareed Zakaria, the CNN journalist.
- Regis College, in Massachusetts: David Ortiz, the former Boston Red Sox baseball player; and Dan Rivera, mayor of Lawrence, Mass.
- Smith College: Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and co-director of Caring Across Generations.
- Southwestern University: Timothy B. Boone, professor and the chair of the urology department at Houston Methodist Hospital and Research Institute.
- Stanford University: Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple.
- University of Colorado at Boulder: Savannah Sellers, correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
- University of Georgia: Deborah Roberts, an ABC News correspondent; and Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the university.
- University of Southern California: U.S. Representative Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
