SPEAKERS

Allison Hedge Coke

2019–2020, Events, Speakers

TBA | Award-winning poet and author of Dog Road Woman, Blood Run, and Burn

Ellen Carol Dubois

2020–2021, Events, Speakers

August 27, 2020 | Acclaimed UCLA historian and author of Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Paul Butler

2020–2021, Events, Speakers

September 9, 2020 | Georgetown law professor and the author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men.

ALICIA GARZA

2020–2021, Events, Speakers

September 24, 2020 | Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter and Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals

Edward Glaeser

2020–2021, Events, Speakers

October 21, 2020 | Harvard economist and a former director of the Taubman Center

Matthew Desmond

2020–2021, Speakers

July 28, 2020 | Princeton sociologist, MacArthur Genius fellow, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted

Tim Wu

2019–2020, Speakers

February 20, 2020 | The New York Times columnist and author of The Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness

Rachel Louise Snyder

2019–2020, Speakers

March 9, 2020 | Investigative journalist and author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Robert Waldinger

2019–2020, Speakers

March 12, 2020 | Renowned psychiatrist, Zen priest, and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

Noura Erakat

2019–2020, Speakers

November 6, 2019 | author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine

Mark Hixon

2019–2020, Speakers

October 3, 2019 | Hsiao Endowed Chair in Marine Biology

David Wallace-Wells

2019–2020, Greatest Hits, Speakers

January 14, 2020 | Deputy Editor at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth

Lita M. Proctor

2019–2020, Speakers

January 23, 2020 | Inaugural Coordinator of the NIH’s $215 million Human Microbiome Project

Viet Thanh Nguyen

2019–2020, Greatest Hits, Speakers

September 19, 2019 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacArthur genius fellow.

Andy Fisher

2019–2020, Speakers

September 12, 2019 | Food security and justice advocate, author of Big Hunger

Michael Bennett

2019–2020, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Defensive end with the New England Patriots, and author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.

Priyamvada Natarajan

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale and the author of Mapping the Heavens

Marcus Rediker

2018-2019, Speakers

Acclaimed historian, documentary filmmaker and award-winning author

Marielena Hincapié

2018-2019, Speakers

Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center

Thomas Laqueur

2018-2019, Speakers

Cultural theorist and author of The Work of the Dead

Sheena Iyengar

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Social psychologist Sheena Iyengar is one of the world’s leading experts on choice

Kaitlyn Yang

2018-2019, Speakers

Visual Effects Supervisor, Alpha Studios

David Cole

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

David Cole is the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ellis Henican

2018-2019, Speakers

Ellis Henican is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and prolific, bestselling author.

Janet Mock

2018-2019, Greatest Hits, Speakers

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.

Richard Tedlow

2018-2019, Speakers

Harvard business professor and faculty at Apple University, Richard Tedlow is an expert on management decision-making and the history and future of technology.

Marcus Ericksen

2018-2019, Speakers

Scientist, environmentalist, adventurer, Marcus Eriksen is one of the world’s leading advocates for cleaning plastic pollution from the oceans.

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

2017-2018, Speakers

Renowned coral reef scientist and director of the Global Change Institute

Christopher Field

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Director of Stanford's Woods Institute and leading author of IPCC climate reports

Eric Shinseki

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers

First Asian American 4-star general and former Secretary for Veteran's Affairs

Michael Roth

2017-2018, Speakers

President of Wesleyen University and advocate for liberal education

Walter Echo-Hawk

2017-2018, Speakers

Native American attorney and author

Sara Seager

2017-2018, Speakers

MIT Astrophysicist and expert in Earth-like exoplanets

Lonnie Bunch

2017-2018, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

Chris Eyre

2017-2018, Speakers

Award-winning Native American filmmaker

Martha Nussbaum

2017-2018, Speakers

Endowed University of Chicago professor of philosophy and law and prolific author.

Vivek Murthy

2016–2017, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Surgeon General of the United States.

Sacha Pfeiffer

2016–2017, Greatest Hits, Speakers

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, author of Betrayed: The Crisis in the Catholic Church (2003).

Corey Robin

2016–2017, Speakers

Essayist, academic, author of The Reactionary Mind — “the book that predicted Trump” (New Yorker) — and Fear: The History of a Political Idea.

Douglas Abrams

2016–2017, Speakers

Novelist, literary agent, co-author of The Book of Joy, an international best seller, with Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.