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David King
2019–2020, Past SpeakersFebruary 5, 2020 | Cambridge Professor Emeritus, UK Scientific Adviser
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Allison Hedge Coke
2019–2020, Past SpeakersDecember 16, 2020 | Award-winning poet and author of Dog Road Woman, Blood Run, and Streaming
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Robert Waldinger
2019–2020, Past SpeakersMarch 12, 2020 | Renowned psychiatrist, Zen priest, and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development
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Tim Wu
2019–2020, Past SpeakersFebruary 20, 2020 | The New York Times columnist and author of The Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness
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Rachel Louise Snyder
2019–2020, Past SpeakersMarch 9, 2020 | Investigative journalist and author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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Lita M. Proctor
2019–2020, Past SpeakersJanuary 23, 2020 | Inaugural Coordinator of the NIH’s $215 million Human Microbiome Project
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David Wallace-Wells
2019–2020, Past SpeakersJanuary 14, 2020 | Deputy Editor at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth
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Noura Erakat
2019–2020, Past SpeakersNovember 6, 2019 | Author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine
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Mark Hixon
2019–2020, Past SpeakersOctober 3, 2019 | Hsiao Endowed Chair in Marine Biology
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2019–2020, Past SpeakersSeptember 19, 2019 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacArthur genius fellow
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Andy Fisher
2019–2020, Past SpeakersSeptember 12, 2019 | Food security and justice advocate, author of Big Hunger