Stephen Brackett, educator, activist, hip-hop artist, and CSU philosophy alum, is the Spring 2019 Commencement Speaker for the College of Liberal Arts on Sunday, May 19th.

On being a Philosophy major, Brackett says:

“Every day I was working on how I thought; I was challenged on every idea I ever held and how I even created those ideas,” he recalls. “Every day I felt I was becoming a better person. I couldn’t believe that everyone wasn’t doing this.”

And though Brackett normally had trouble with homework, once he found philosophy, he started achieving A’s. “It was incredibly challenging and called forth so much from me. This is what school ought to be,” he says. “It was the most amazing major.”