
BURNING SPEAR, INC.
Previous Key Note Speakers
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2023 Speaker: Roberto Aguayo, FSU Football 2013 National Team member
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2022 Speaker: Brooke Wyckoff, FSU Women’s Basketball Head Coach
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2021 (Fall) Speaker: Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz, FSU Board of Trustees
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2021 (Spring) Speaker: Deborah Sargeant, FSU Board of Trustees
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2019 Speaker: Florida Representative Dan Daley, District 97
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2018 Speakers: Charlie Barnes, Seminole Boosters Executive Director Emeritus, and Charlie Ward, 1993 Heisman Trophy Winner
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2017 Speakers: Nan Hillis, Banking and Nonprofit Leader, and Gordon "Ollie" Wareham, Seminole Tribe of Florida
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2016 Speaker: Albert Dunlap, Corporate Executive and FSU Supporter
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2015 Speaker: Coach Sue Semrau, FSU Women's Basketball Head Coach
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2014 Speaker: Benjamin Crump, Civil Rights Activist & Attorney
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2013 Speaker: Allen Durham, Past Chair of FSU Alumni Association, Director of the Osceola and Renegade pageantry, recipient of FSU Circle of Gold Award
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2012 Speaker: Nick Maddox, FSU Football National Champion 1999
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2011 Speaker: Marvin "Shade Tree" Jones, Two-time Consensus All-American
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2010 Speaker: Garrett Johnson, Rhodes Scholar & FSU Track & Field National Champion
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2009 Speaker: Raoul G. Cantero, Former Florida Supreme Court Justice
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2008 Speaker: The Honorable Mel Martinez
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2007 Speaker: Mark McHale, Former FSU Offensive Line Coach
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2006 Speaker: Bill Nelson, United States Senator
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2005 Speaker: Ray Sansom, Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
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2004 Speaker: Derrick Brooks, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXVII
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2003 Speaker: Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist
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2002 Speaker: The Honorable Reubin Askew, Governor of Florida 1971 - 1979
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2001 Speaker: Charlie Barnes, Past Executive Director Seminole Boosters, Inc.
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2000 Spearker: Allan Bense, Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
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1999 Speaker: Peter Boulware, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXV
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1998 Speaker: Terrell Buckley, FSU All-American and NFL Super Bowl Champion XXXVI