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Incisive Talks on the Most
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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
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Islands, History, Future

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October 12, 2023

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Ai-jen Poo

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

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Veena Sahajwalla

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Spring 2024 | Inventor, engineer, materials scientist

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FEATURED PAST EVENTS

Robin Kimmerer
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Speakers
February 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
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December 23, 2022
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Noam Chomsky
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Speakers
October 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual
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October 24, 2022
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Maria Ressa
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers
July 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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July 21, 2022
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Paul Farmer
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers
February 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health
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October 31, 2021
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Joy Harjo
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers
October 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate
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September 7, 2021
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Kate Raworth
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Speakers
October 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics
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September 4, 2021
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Helen Zia
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers
April 12, 2021 | Activist, Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams
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March 21, 2021
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Vivek Murthy
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers
January 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General
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November 13, 2020
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Eric Topol
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers
December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author
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October 30, 2020
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Alicia Garza
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers
September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals
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July 23, 2020
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Michael Bennett
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Speakers
June 17, 2020 | Defensive end with the New England Patriots and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
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July 1, 2020
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Priyamvada Natarajan
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers
May 2, 2019 | Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens
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March 11, 2019
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David Cole
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers
February 28, 2019 | National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
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January 28, 2019
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Sheena Iyengar
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers
March 14, 2019 | Social psychologist
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November 28, 2018
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Janet Mock
2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers
Fall 2018 Commencement | author, TV personality and one of the nation’s most important advocates for transgender rights
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July 16, 2018
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Eric Shinseki
2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers
Spring 2018 Commencement | First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs
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January 17, 2018
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Joseph Stiglitz
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Speakers
March 14, 2012 | Nobel laureate, University Professor of Economics at Columbia
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May 16, 2017
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Van Jones
2011–2012, Greatest Hits, Speakers
March 19, 2012 | CNN commentator, White House green jobs advisor (2009), author of Rebuild the Dream (2012).
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May 16, 2017
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Jose Antonio Vargas
2013–2015, Greatest Hits, Speakers
Fall 2013 Commencement | Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Founder and CEO, Define American
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May 16, 2017
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Mark Bittman
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Speakers
February 18, 2016 | New York Times food writer, author of twenty books, including How to Cook Everything (1998).
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May 16, 2017
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Angela Y. Davis
2015–2016, Greatest Hits, Speakers
April 8, 2016 | Scholar, author, activist
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May 16, 2017
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Ai-jen Poo (2017)
2016–2017, Greatest Hits, Speakers
March 22, 2017 | Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MacArthur fellow, author of The Age of Dignity (2015).
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May 12, 2017
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Incisive Talks on the Most Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most Important Questions of Our Time

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Incisive Talks on the Most
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Important Questions of Our Time

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Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
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Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time

Incisive Talks on the Most
Important Questions of Our Time