Past Speakers
2021 B. D. Wong-Actor and Activist
2019 Janna Levin- Author and Astrophysicist
2018 Margot Lee Shetterly- Author
2016 Laurie Garrett- Pulitzer, Peabody, and Polk Prize-winning Author and Activist
2015 Sherman Alexie- Poet and Novelist
2014 Steven Pinker- Cognitive Scientist
2013 Luis Alberto Urrea- Author
2012 Jaron Lanier- Computer Scientist and Author
2011 Alma Guillermoprieto- Author
2010 Bill McKibben- Environmentalist and Author
2009 Sir Salman Rushdie- Author
2008 Dr. Michael Walton- Partners in Health
2007 Maria Hinojosa- Radio/TV Journalist and Host of “Latino USA”
2006 Vali Nasr- Middle East Specialist
2006 E.O. Wilson- Biologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
2005 Ed Morales- contributor to The Village Voice and Author of “Living in Spanglish”
2005 Seymour Hersh- Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
2004 Karen Armstrong- Historian of Religion
2004 Robert F. Kennedy- Environmental Lawyer
2003 Edward James Olmos- Actor and Social Activist
2003 Samuel Bilson and Roy Hawthorne- Navajo Code Talkers
2002 Susan Sontag, Essayist- Novelist and Critic
2002 Judy Chicago- Artist
2001 N. Scott Momaday- Novelist
2000 Oliver Sacks- Neurologist and Author of “Awakenings”
1999 Gloria Steinem- Author and Activist
1998 F.W. de Klerk- former Prime Minister of South Africa and Nobel Prize Laureate
1997 Elie Wiesel- Author, Humanitarian, and Nobel Prize Laureate
1996 Alice Walker- Novelist and Essayist
1995 Jane Goodall- Primatologist
1994 Stephen Jay Gould- Paleontologist and Author
1992 Carlos Fuentes- Mexican Novelist and Diplomat