UPCOMING EVENTS
FEATURED PAST EVENTS
Ai-jen Poo
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersNovember 9, 2023 | Activist, author, director of Caring Across Generations
Julian Aguon
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersSeptember 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer
Robin Kimmerer
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Noam Chomsky
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual
Maria Ressa
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJuly 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Paul Farmer
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health
Joy Harjo
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate
Kate Raworth
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics
Helen Zia
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersApril 12, 2021 | Activist, Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams
Vivek Murthy
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJanuary 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General
Eric Topol
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author
Alicia Garza
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals
Michael Bennett
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJune 17, 2020 | Defensive end with the New England Patriots and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Priyamvada Natarajan
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMay 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens
David Cole
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Sheena Iyengar
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMarch 14, 2019 | Social psychologist
Janet Mock
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights
Eric Shinseki
2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersSpring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs
Joseph Stiglitz
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMarch 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia
Van Jones
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers March 19, 2012 | CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).
Jose Antonio Vargas
2013–2015, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American
Mark Bittman
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 18, 2016 | New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).
Angela Y. Davis
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersApril 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist
Vanishing Voices: Saving Our Hawaiian Forest Birds
2024-2025, EventsNovember 22, 2024 | Vanishing Voices film screening and community conversation
Carissa Moore
2024-2025, Events, Hawaii SpeakersDecember 5, 2024 | Five-time world surfing champion, Olympic gold medalist, founder of Moore Aloha
Rosanna Xia
2024-2025, EventsJanuary 16, 2025 | Environmental reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist