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January 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General
October 21, 2020 | Harvard economist and a former director of the Taubman Center
September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals
January 14, 2020 | Deputy Editor at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth
September 19, 2019 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacArthur genius fellow.
June 17 | Defensive end with the New England Patriots, and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.
Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens
Social psychologist Sheena Iyengar is one of the world’s leading experts on choice
David Cole is the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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.
First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran’s Affairs
Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, author of Betrayed: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (2003).
Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MacArthur fellow, author of The Age of Dignity (2015).
New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).
Harvard professor of Government, Johan Skytte Prize winner, member National Academy of Sciences.
CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).
Donald Shoup
2021-2022, Events, SpeakersAugust 18, 2021 | UCLA professor; expert on parking, liveable cities & the environment
Chesa Boudin
2021-2022, Events, SpeakersNovember 18, 2021 | San Francisco’s District Attorney, former public defender, Rhodes scholar
Matthew Desmond
2021-2022, Events, SpeakersOctober 21, 2021 | Princeton sociologist, MacArthur Genius fellow, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted