Events
Viet Thanh Nguyen
September 19, 2019 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacArthur genius fellow.
Michael Bennett
Defensive end with the New England Patriots, and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens
Sheena Iyengar
Social psychologist Sheena Iyengar is one of the world’s leading experts on choice
David Cole
David Cole is the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Janet Mock
Born and raised in Hawai‘i, Janet Mock is an author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights.
Christopher Field
Director of Stanford’s Woods Institute and leading author of IPCC climate reports
Eric Shinseki
First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran’s Affairs
Lonnie Bunch
Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
Henry Petroski
Renowned professor of engineering and award-winning author of 19 books.
Vivek Murthy
Surgeon General of the United States.
Sacha Pfeiffer
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, author of Betrayed: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (2003).
Ai-jen Poo
Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MacArthur fellow, author of The Age of Dignity (2015).
Alicia Garza
Co-founder, Black Lives Matter Special Projects Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Angela Y. Davis
Scholar, author, activist.
Mark Bittman
New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).
Sam Kass
NBC News analyst, Director, Let’s Move!, White House Senior Advisor for Nutrition Policy (2009-2014).
Jose Antonio Vargas
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American.
Theda Skocpol
Harvard professor of Government, Johan Skytte Prize winner, member National Academy of Sciences.
Van Jones
CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).
Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia.
David Wallace-Wells
/in 2019–2020, Events, Speakers /by Eriza BarengJanuary 14, 2020 | Deputy Editor at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth
Lita M. Proctor
/in 2019–2020, Events, Speakers /by Eriza BarengInaugural Coordinator of the NIH’s $215 million Human Microbiome Project
Tim Wu
/in 2019–2020, Events, Speakers /by Eriza BarengFebruary 20, 2020 | The New York Times columnist and author of The Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness