Riccardo Dale '20 Student Speaker

Riccardo Dale '20: Rowan University's 2020 Commencement Student Speaker

The voting student trustee on Rowan University’s Board of Trustees, Riccardo Dale is a senior liberal studies major in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences.

Founder of Free All Minds, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring at risk youth, Dale is a sought-after speaker at schools, where he shares his messages of resilience, personal responsibility and the importance of higher education with students from elementary school through college.

He has spoken to groups nationally and internationally and his work has been featured by media outlets, including Fox News, NJ.com and Smile Jamaica, a morning television show.

Dale recently launched an apparel line that promotes mental health awareness.

He joined the Board of Trustees in September of 2018.