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Arts and Sciences

Patti and Ken Moyes Speaker Series

The Patti and Ken Moyes Speaker Series brings in industry professionals each semester to interact with students. It supports the school’s three majors — multimedia journalism, strategic communications and sports media — and gives students a chance to interact with professionals currently working at the highest levels in the fields they study. Generously sponsored by Ken Moyes and his late wife, Patti, these professionals do more than simply speak to a large crowd of students. They spend a day interacting with students over meals and in other small interpersonal settings. Many continue contact with students they meet long after speaking at OSU. The event is held once each semester.

Previous Speakers Archive

YearSpeaker
Fall 2026
Melanie Newman, MLB play-by-play broadcaster
Spring 2026
Cynthia Round, brand strategist
Fall 2025
Kinga Phillips, actress and journalist
Spring 2025Tracy Harlow, vice president of corporate communications, Walmart
Fall 2024Holly Rowe, sports telecaster, ESPN
Spring 2024Brian McGrory, former editor of the Boston Globe
Fall 2023Ashley Fox, sports journalist
Spring 2023Jacob Johnson, CEO of Getwit.com
Fall 2022Julie Banderas, FOX News Channel