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Ai-jen Poo
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersNovember 9, 2023 | Activist, author, director of Caring Across Generations
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Julian Aguon
2023-2024, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersSeptember 21, 2023 | Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer
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Robin Kimmerer
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 7, 2023 | Botanist, author, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
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Noam Chomsky
2022-2023, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 27, 2022 | Linguist, philosopher, public intellectual
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Maria Ressa
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJuly 15, 2022 | Co-Founder of Rappler.com and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Paul Farmer
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersFebruary 17, 2022 | Harvard physician, co-founder of Partners In Health
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Joy Harjo
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 23, 2021 | Writer and musician of the Mvskoke Nation; U.S. Poet Laureate
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Kate Raworth
2021-2022, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersOctober 7, 2021| Oxford economist and bestselling author of Doughnut Economics
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Helen Zia
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersApril 12, 2021 | Activist, Author of Last Boat out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams
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Vivek Murthy
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past SpeakersJanuary 6, 2021 | Co-Chair of Biden's Covid-19 Advisory Board and former Surgeon General
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Eric Topol
2020–2021, Greatest Hits, Past Speakers December 17, 2020 | Cardiologist, research scientist, and bestselling author