Yippie founder Jerry Rubin; spiritual leader Ram Dass; and Larry Yurdin in addition to Danny Fields, Bob Fass, and Paul Krassner from The Realist, a magazine.
A music roster of up-and-coming bands was curated by Atlantic Records and included Dr. John and the J. Geils Band. The conference embodied both the political activism and the free-love atmosphere of the time: a coalition affiliated with Panther 21, The Guardian, Newsreel, Radio Free People, Liberation News Service, Media Women, and The New York Rat put together a packet highlighting the political side of alternative media.
A second Alternative Media Conference was held on campus in 2013 to commemorate the college's 150th anniversary. Thom Hartmann and Ellen Ratner were featured speakers.
=== 2014 undergraduate commencement ===
In 2014, the graduating class of the college's undergraduate program selected convicted murderer and Goddard alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal to be the commencement speaker. Abu-Jamal, who had attended Goddard as an undergraduate in the …
