Speakers and Performers
Past speakers have included:
- Robert Krulwich '65, above, co-host of Radio Lab
- Joanne Bland, co-founder and former director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama
- Dr. Ellen Bassuk, psychiatrist, Jolli Humanitarian Award recipient, and founder of the Center for Social Innovation
- John Isaac, former photojournalist for the United Nations
- Stacey Mindich, producer of "Dear Evan Hansen."
- Chris Larsen, a graduate of Lawrenceville and West Point, a decorated Iraq War veteran, and MBA student
- Gene Klein, a holocaust survivor and the subject of a book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Family’s Path Through Auschwitz
- Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center
- Tara Setmayer and Kevin Powell, political commentators
- Tsione Wolde-Michael, editor for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
- Cathy O'Neil, mathematician, blogger, and author of books about data science
- Leigh Bristow, founder of Sumbandila Scholarships in rural Limpopo, South Africa
- Jeffrey Toobin, lawyer, author and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker
- Leslie Lewin, executive director of Seeds of Peace
- Renee Engein, author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
- Dr. Jackie Faherty, senior scientist and senior education manager in the Department of Astrophysics and the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
- Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York
- Jerry Craft, syndicated cartoonist
- Scott Barry Kauffman, author, psychology researcher, and scientific director of the Imagination Institute
- Regina Calcaterra, memoirist
- Amanda Quaid '01, actor and theater coach
- Kip Fulbeck, artist, spoken word performer, filmmaker, and professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Lenni Benson, founder of the Safe Passage Project
- Daniel LaChance, former Riverdale teacher, history professor at Emory University, author
- Ross Douthat, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times
- Harry Enten '07, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight
- Jeremy K. Kessler, associate professor at Columbia Law School
- Peter B. Ellis '57, a lawyer who represented several Guantanamo detainees and challenged the Obama administration’s definition for enemy combatants
- Kennedy Odede, founder of Shining Hope for Communities in the Kibera slum of Nairoibi, Kenya
- Dr. Melony Samuels, founder and executive director of the Bed Stuy Campaign Against Hunger
- Jordan Axt, researcher in social psychology for Project Implicit at Harvard University
- Alessia Cara, singer-songwriter known for her debut single, "Here"
- Hari Kondabolu, comedian
- Ryan Mundy, a safety for the Chicago Bears