Speakers
Lewis & Clark Graduate School Commencement
June 6, 2021
Guest Commencement Speaker: Esther Boykin, LMFT
Esther Boykin is a psychotherapist who wants to live in a world where everyone believes that Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word. As the CEO of Group Therapy Associates, a private practice in the DC metro area, she works every day to make mental health accessible, innovative, and culturally relevant for all people.
In 2017 Esther launched Therapy Is Not A Dirty Word, a brand new division of GTA designed to bring mental health conversation outside the traditional office setting and into the community through media, webinars, social events, and retreats.
In addition to her role as a licensed marriage & family therapist and CEO, Esther is also an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech teaching the business of therapy, author of The Date Deck, and a sought-after relationship and mental health expert. She was recently named a top 21 relationship expert to follow by Cosmopolitan magazine and has appeared on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac, HuffPost, Good Morning Washington, the Wall Street Journal, Refinery 29, and a myriad of other media outlets.
You can connect with Esther online via Instagram and Twitter or through her website.
Student Commencement Speakers
Past Commencement Speakers
- 2020 Zaretta Hammond
- 2019 Anneliese Singh
- 2018 Manivong Ratts
- 2017 Robin DiAngelo
- 2016 Kevin Kumashiro
- 2015 Christine Sleeter
- 2014 Kim Stafford
- 2013 Pedro Noguera
- 2012 Michelle Fine
- 2011 Stephen Krashen
- 2010 Anderson Franklin
- 2009 Francisco Guajardo
- 2008 Chris Crutcher
- 2007 Nel Noddings
- 2006 William F. Schulz
- 2005 Brinton Lykes
- 2004 James Banks
- 2003 Parker Palmer
- 2002 Crystal Kuykendall
- 2001 Lisbeth Schorr
- 2000 Stan Bunn