2026 Commencement Speaker Gregory Nava
Gregory Nava is an award-winning director, filmmaker, and screenwriter. His first Academic Award (Oscar) nomination was in 1983 for the best original screenplay for El Norte. His breakthrough film was Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez in the biopic about the famed pop star, which he both wrote and directed. It was nominated for a Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards and won four American Latino Media Arts Awards. In 2006, he produced, wrote, and directed the film Bordertown, based on true events, is a political thriller about a series of unsolved murders in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. It stars Jennifer Lopez as a Chicago-based reporter who follows the story.