Emiliana GuerecaInvite EmilianaCollege + University Speaker
Emiliana Guereca brings a clear-eyed, energizing perspective on leadership, civic engagement, and community to the conversations students will carry forward.
For the room in front of you
Students are making sense of the world in real time. They are deciding what leadership looks like, where they belong, and whether their participation can change anything. The right speaker can make that work feel less abstract by bringing an honest story, a practical perspective, and a genuine invitation to stay involved.
Emiliana has built public gatherings, community programs, and movement infrastructure across Los Angeles. As founder of the Women’s March Foundation, she has spent years helping people move from a shared sense of urgency to sustained action. Her campus programs meet students with the complexity of the moment, then make room for the questions they are already asking about voice, representation, courage, and collective responsibility.
Whether you are planning a student leadership conference, a women’s leadership program, a civic engagement series, or a conversation for the wider campus community, Emiliana brings an approach rooted in lived experience. The goal is not a polished slogan. It is a conversation that respects the audience, gives them something real to consider, and helps them see a path from concern to participation.
That distinction matters on a campus. A speaker can acknowledge the pressure students feel to have an answer before they have had time to learn, listen, and try. Emiliana makes room for growth without treating uncertainty as an excuse to stand still. Her story gives audiences a useful example of how public work is built through relationships, preparation, and a willingness to keep returning to the work when attention moves elsewhere.
For faculty, staff, and student leaders, the program can also create a shared language for what comes after the event. A well-timed conversation can support the work already happening in classrooms, cultural centers, student organizations, and community partnerships. It can help a new group of students understand that leadership is not only a title or a microphone. It is the ongoing choice to bring people together around something that matters.
Campus talk themes
Each program can be shaped around the people in the room and the conversation your campus needs to have.
Students are often asked to lead before they have seen people like themselves at the center of power. Emiliana speaks about claiming a voice, building a table that is larger than one person, and leading without waiting to be invited.
A meaningful campus program should not leave people with only a feeling. Emiliana connects big questions about democracy, equity, and representation to the practical work of showing up, joining in, and staying engaged.
College brings together people with different histories, needs, and points of view. Her perspective helps audiences consider how trust is built, how coalitions hold, and how shared work can move forward without asking anyone to disappear.
Experience that meets the moment
Emiliana’s public work reaches across organizing, event production, advocacy, media, and community-building. She knows how to hold a room because she has helped build the rooms where people decide to show up for one another.
Her speaking experience includes universities, civic groups, community organizations, and cultural institutions. She has appeared with Cal State LA, USC, UCLA, the League of Women Voters, Politicon, and the HOPE Conference. That range matters for campus audiences. A strong speaker does not arrive with a canned message. She listens for the tension in the room and speaks to the choices people are making now.
Emiliana also understands that students are not one audience. A first-year student finding a public voice, a student organizer carrying a full calendar, a faculty member building a meaningful program, and an alum returning to campus may all hear the same conversation differently. Her work creates space for that range while staying anchored in what a community can do together.
Her perspective also carries the practical knowledge behind public moments. Before a gathering becomes a headline or a turning point, someone has to bring people into the room, understand what they care about, and make the experience worth returning to. Emiliana can speak to that reality with the candor of someone who has built both events and the longer relationships that give an event a life after the lights come down.
Ways to gather
Start with the question your event needs to hold. The format can follow from there.
Open a conference, leadership program, or campus-wide gathering with a direct, human conversation about what it takes to turn conviction into action.
Bring Emiliana into dialogue with a campus leader, faculty member, student journalist, or moderator for a format that can meet a timely issue with nuance.
Add a grounded movement-builder’s perspective to a larger program on women’s leadership, civic life, equity, representation, or the future of community.
Give student organizers and emerging leaders a candid look at the patience, persistence, and relationships that help a public idea become lasting work.
A conversation with weight
A memorable campus event needs more than a recognizable name or a big room. Students notice when a speaker is speaking at them instead of with them. Emiliana’s work is grounded in the idea that people become more powerful when they can recognize their own role in a larger story. That makes her a natural fit for programs that want to build confidence without offering false certainty.
Her perspective is especially relevant for audiences exploring women’s leadership, immigrant stories, reproductive freedom, civic participation, cross-community organizing, and public service. These are not distant issues in Emiliana’s work. They are the questions she has spent her career navigating through events, advocacy, and relationships with people doing the work on the ground.
For event organizers, that translates into a program that is thoughtful without being distant and direct without becoming simplistic. Your audience gets a speaker who can name the stakes, honor the people in the room, and leave space for the next part of the conversation to belong to them.
That balance can be especially valuable when your program brings together students who are new to civic life and students who have already found an issue they want to organize around. The conversation can affirm both starting points. It can make space for ambition, frustration, and curiosity, while keeping the focus on the relationships and choices that make collective work durable.
Plan your campus event →Frequently asked questions
Emiliana is a strong fit for campus conferences, women’s leadership programs, student organization events, civic engagement programming, community conversations, and moderated panels. Share the setting and audience when you reach out so the conversation can be shaped around the room.
Her campus conversations draw from lived experience in organizing, event production, women’s leadership, civic participation, and coalition-building. Common themes include turning shared concern into action, leading in public, building bridges across difference, and creating communities where more people can participate.
Yes. The best programs start with the audience in mind. Tell the team about your event, the people in the room, and the question you want the program to help them consider.
Use the invitation form to share your event date, format, audience, and goals. The team will review the request and follow up about availability and next steps.
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