UPCOMING EVENTS
FEATURED PAST EVENTS
![Ai-jen Poo](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/1A5E783B-E2CA-4635-B362-1AA17EF79B62_1_201_a.jpeg)
Ai-jen Poo
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersNovember 9, 2023 | Activist, author, director of Caring Across Generations
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Aguon-featured.jpg)
Julian Aguon
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersSeptember 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Kimmerer-featured-e1671832711441.jpeg)
Robin Kimmerer
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Chomsky-featured-scaled.jpeg)
Noam Chomsky
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Ressa-featured.jpeg)
Maria Ressa
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJuly 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/0F375AD1-E547-4DAF-83F8-5586CDF76AA9_1_201_a.jpeg)
Paul Farmer
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health
![Joy HArjo headshot](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/JoyHarjo-featured.jpeg)
Joy Harjo
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/KateRaworth-featured.jpeg)
Kate Raworth
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Thumbnail-Helen-Zia.jpeg)
Helen Zia
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersApril 12, 2021 | Activist, Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/VivekMurphy-featured.jpeg)
Vivek Murthy
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJanuary 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/EricTopol-featured.jpeg)
Eric Topol
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/AliciaGarza-featured.jpeg)
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
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/MichaelBennett-featured.jpeg)
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
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/PriyamvadaNatarajan-featured.jpeg)
Priyamvada Natarajan
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMay 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/DavidCole-featured.jpeg)
David Cole
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/Headshot-Iyengar.jpg)
Sheena Iyengar
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMarch 14, 2019 | Social psychologist
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/JanetMock-featured.jpeg)
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
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/EricShinseki-featured.jpeg)
Eric Shinseki
2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersSpring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/JosephStiglitz-featured.jpeg)
Joseph Stiglitz
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersMarch 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/VanJones-featured.jpeg)
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).
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/JoseAntonioVargas-featured.jpeg)
Jose Antonio Vargas
2013–2015, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/MarkBittman-featured.jpeg)
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).
![](https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/wp-content/uploads/AngelaDavis-featured.jpeg)
Angela Y. Davis
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersApril 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist
The Right to Read
2024-2025, EventsAugust 16, 2024
Saket Soni
2023-2024, EventsOctober 3, 2024 | Labor organizer, human rights strategist, author