UPCOMING EVENTS
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Robin Kimmerer
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Noam Chomsky
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, SpeakersOctober 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual

Maria Ressa
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, SpeakersJuly 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Paul Farmer
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health

Joy Harjo
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, SpeakersOctober 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate

Kate Raworth
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, SpeakersOctober 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics

Helen Zia
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, SpeakersApril 12, 2021 | Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams

Vivek Murthy
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, SpeakersJanuary 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General

Eric Topol
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author

Alicia Garza
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals

Michael Bennett
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, 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, SpeakersMay 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens

Sheena Iyengar
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, SpeakersMarch 14, 2019 | Social psychologist

David Cole
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Janet Mock
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights

Eric Shinseki
2017-2018, Greatest Hits, SpeakersSpring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs

Lonnie Bunch
2017-2018, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 27, 2018 | Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

Ai-jen Poo
2016–2017, Greatest Hits, SpeakersMarch 22, 2017 | Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MacArthur fellow, author of The Age of Dignity (2015).

Sacha Pfeiffer
2016–2017, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 17, 2017 | Pulitzer-prize winning reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, author of Betrayed: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (2003).

Angela Y. Davis
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, SpeakersApril 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist

Mark Bittman
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFebruary 18, 2016 | New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).

Jose Antonio Vargas
2013–2015, Greatest Hits, SpeakersFall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American

Van Jones
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Speakers March 19, 2012 | CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).

Joseph Stiglitz
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, SpeakersMarch 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia
Amitav Ghosh
2022-2023, EventsApril 18, 2023 | Acclaimed author, public intellectual
Nicholas Christakis
2022-2023, EventsMay 18, 2023 | Physician, Sociologist, Director of Yale’s Human Nature Lab
Alpin Hong
2022-2023, EventsMay 25, 2023 | Classical pianist, music education advocate, inspirational speaker, paladin
Julian Aguon
EventsSeptember 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer