2025/26
Jenn Thornhill Verma, BJ(Hons)’02, MFA’19
Award-winning environmental journalist and 2024/25 Pulitzer Ocean Reporting Fellow, Globe & Mail
October 3, 2025
2024/25
Amelia Hadfield, BA(Hons)’96
Dean International of the University of Surrey and regular commentator on European foreign relations, including with Canada and the US
March 21, 2025
Sandra Hannebohm, BJ’18
Journalist, editor and digital producer of My Halifax Experience Magazine
February 24, 2025
Courtney Henry, BSc(Hons)’13
Nuclear Medicine Physicist, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax
January 23, 2025
Karen Gatien, BA’89
Executive Deputy Minister & Deputy Minister, Nova Scotia’s Ministry of Natural Resources
November 22, 2024
Amy Brierley, BJ’20
Social Policy Strategist, Halifax Regional Municipality’s Community Safety Programs and Partnerships division
October 21, 2024
2023/24
Naomi Rosenfeld
Vice Chair of the King’s Board of Governors
March 20, 2024
Dr. Owen Averill, BA(Hons)’04
Family Physician
New Glasgow, N.S.
February 28, 2024
Kate MacKeigan, BA’09
Information Manager
Shared Services Canada
January 31, 2024
Andrew Soren, BA(Hons)’02
Founder and CEO
Eudaimonic by Design
November 23, 2023
Marie-France LeBlanc, BJ’92
President & CEO, North End Community Health Centre
October 17, 2023
Jenn Thornhill Verma
BJ(Hons)’02, MFA’19
Journalist, visual artist and non-profit executive
September 27, 2023
2022/23
Alexandra McCann
Executive Director of ONSIDE, the Organization for Nova Scotia Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship
March 29, 2023
Tanya Bilsbury, BSc(Hons)’05
PhD candidate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Saint Mary’s University
November 30, 2022
2021/22
Trevor Murphy, BJ (Hons) ’06
Publicist and Musician
March 18, 2022
Kathryn Morse, BJ ‘89
Councillor, Halifax Regional Municipality
March 3, 2022
Chère Chapman, BSc(Hons) ’94
CEO Ardea Outcomes
November 26, 2021
Hannah Rittner, BA(Hons)’11
Playwright, Screenwriter and Producer
October 14, 2021
2019/20
Harry Critchley, BA(Hons)’15
Law Student, Schulich School of Law
February 14, 2020
Stefan Leslie, BA(Hons)’96
CEO at Research Nova Scotia
January 24, 2020
Trina Roache, BJ’00
Video Journalist with APTN Investigates
November 8, 2019
Wilson Bell, BA(Hons)’00
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics – Thompson Rivers University
October 18, 2019
Nevin French, BA’00
Vice President Public Policy, Information Technology Association of Canada
September 27, 2019
2018/19
Shannon Brownlee, BA(Hons)’96
Associate Director (Cinema & Media Studies); Assistant Professor – Cinema and Media Studies; Gender and Women’s Studies, Dalhousie University
March 25, 2019
Stephanie McGrath, BJ(Hons)’99
Vice President of Strategy at VERB Interactive
January 25, 2019
Doug Ruck, BA’72
Chair, King’s Board of Governors
November 2, 2018
Lindsay Cameron Wilson , BA’95, BJ’99
Host, Love Food and The Food Podcast; Co-author of seven cookbooks
September 24, 2018
2017/18
Stephanie Dick, BA(Hons)’07
Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
April 5, 2018
Alex McLean, BA(Hons)’96 and Susan Leblanc, BA(Hons)’97
Artistic Directors, Zuppa Theatre
March 21, 2018
Simon Jackson, BSc ’86
Department of Medicine & Professor, Division of Cardiology
February 7, 2018
Wanda Taylor,BJ’08
Author, Acquisitions Editor, Formac Publishing; Mentor Apprentice, King’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction
January 25, 2018
Brian McGuigan, BA(Hons)’85
Manager, Aboriginal Policy for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)
November 3, 2017
Stephen Marche, BA(Hons)’97
Esquire columnist and author
November 15, 2017
Barb Stegemann, BA ’91, BJ ’99
Founder, The 7 Virtues; Author and Social Business Innovator
November 23, 2017
Helen MacDonnell, BA’86, MFA’15
Writer, speaker and mental health advocate; Founder of Women & Wellness, an award-winning awareness and fundraising event for mental health in Canada
October 16, 2017
Joshua Bates, BA(Hons)’02
Senior Policy Analyst, Accessibility Directorate, Department of Justice, Government of Nova Scotia
September 27, 2017
Tyler MacLean, BA (Hons)’11
Legal Aid Manitoba
March 29, 2017