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UPCOMING EVENTS

Rosanna Xia

2024-2025, Events

January 16, 2025 | Environmental reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist

FEATURED PAST EVENTS

Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo

2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

November 9, 2023 | Activist, author, director of Caring Across Generations

Julian Aguon

2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

September 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer

Robin Kimmerer

2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

February 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Noam Chomsky

2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

October 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual

Maria Ressa

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

July 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Paul Farmer

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

February 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health

Joy Harjo

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

October 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate

Kate Raworth

2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

October 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics

Helen Zia

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

April 12, 2021 | Activist, Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams

Vivek Murthy

2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

January 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 Speakers

June 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 Speakers

May 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens

David Cole

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

February 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Sheena Iyengar

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

March 14, 2019 | Social psychologist

Janet Mock

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

Fall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights

Eric Shinseki

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

Spring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs

Joseph Stiglitz

2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

March 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 Speakers

Fall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American

Mark Bittman

2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers

February 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 Speakers

April 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist