Cyrille Aimée
Singer, Songwriter, & Improviser
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer
Gabrielle Appleby
Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
2017 Speaker
Kinan Azmeh
Clarinetist and Composer
2017 Performer • 2021 Performer
Michiel Bakker
Director, Google Food
2017 Speaker
Amar C. Bakshi
Founder and Creative Director, Shared_Studios
2017 Speaker
Rony Barrak
Percussionist, Composer, Instructor
2016 Performer • 2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer
Deann Bayless
Operating Manager and Co-Owner Frontera Grill and Topolobampo
2017 Speaker
Rick Bayless
PBS Chef, Mexico; One Plate at a Time, and Founder of Chefs Collaborative
2017 Speaker
James R. Bell
Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker
Guy Benson
Political Editor, Townhall.com; Contributor, Fox News
2017 Speaker
Pablo Better
President and CEO, Stealth Telecom del Ecuador S.A.
2017 Speaker
Liz Blake
Former Senior Vice President, Habitat for Humanity International
2017 Speaker
Chris Borland
Former NFL Linebacker • Meditation Teacher, Search Inside Yourself • Producer, Co-Laboratory Studios
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker
Laurence Brahm
Founder, Himalayan Consensus Institute
2017 Speaker
Janet Breslin-Smith
President, Crosswinds Strategic Consulting
2017 Speaker
Maggie X. Chen
Professor of Economics & International Affairs, George Washington University
2017 Speaker
Joe Cirincione
President, Ploughshares Fund • MSNBC Nuclear Security Analyst
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • CWA Speaker Series
Sam Cook
Performance Poet, Founder and Executive Director, Button Poetry
2017 Performer
Mike Cordano
President and Chief Operating Officer, Western Digital Corporation
2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Claire Daly
Baritone Saxophonist
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2021 Performer
Piper Davis
Co-Owner, Grand Central Bakery and Board Chair, Chefs Collaborative
2017 Speaker
Helen De La Rosa
Drummer
2017 Performer • 2020 Performer
Allison Del Fium
Musician, Music Journalist & Student at University of Oregon
2017 Performer
Dan Delurey
President, Wedgemere Group
2017 Speaker
Neil J. Diamant
Professor of Asian Law and Society, Dickinson College
2017 Speaker
Ed Elmendorf
Past President, United Nations Association
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Kerry Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT
2017 Speaker
Debra Eschmeyer
Former Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy and Executive Director, Let's Move!, Obama Administration
2017 Speaker
Mark Fallon
International Security Consultant & Author
2017 Speaker • 2016 Speaker • 2020 Speaker
Adrean Farrugia
Pianist, Composer, and Educator
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer
Amy Fox
Screenwriter, Playwright, and Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
2017 Speaker • 2016 Speaker
Michael G. Franc
Director, Washington, D.C. Programs, Hoover Institution
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Peter Frumhoff
Director of Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists
2017 Speaker • 2021 Speaker
Joel Gallant
Medical Director of Specialty Services, Southwest CARE Center
2017 Speaker
Deliana Garcia
Director of International Projects, Research, and Development, Migrant Clinicians Network
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker
Maurizio Geri
Dr. NATO Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation
2017 Speaker • 2022 Speaker
Lara T. Gilmore
Restauranteur, Osteria Francescana
2017 Speaker
Martha Clark Goss
Independent Director, American Water Works
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Larry Greenwood
President, Japan Society of Northern California
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker
David Grinspoon
Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Lena Gutschank
Aerialist, Dancer, Contortionist, Actress, Entrepreneur
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer
Mark Gyetvay
CFO & Deputy Chairman, OAO Novatek
2017 Speaker
Fred Haberman
CEO & Co-Founder, Haberman; Co-Founder, Urban Organics
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker
Joe Hagan
President and CEO, National Equity Fund
2017 Speaker
Heather Hansen
Performance and Visual Artist
2017 Performer
Andrew Heben
Project Director, SquareOne Villages
2017 Speaker
Vicki Huddleston
Ambassador (ret.) to Mali and Madagascar, United States Department of State
2005 Speaker • 2007 Speaker • 2008 Speaker • 2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker
John Huston
Professional Polar Explorer
2017 Speaker
Karuna Jaggar
Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action
2017 Speaker
Ellen Jorgensen
President and Co-Founder, Genspace
2017 Speaker
Robert G. Kaufman
Dockson Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
2017 Speaker • 2016 Speaker • 2019 Speaker
Pooh Kaye
Artistic Director, Eccentric Motions, Inc.
2017 Performer
Julie Landsman
Musician, Former Principal Horn, Metropolitan Orchestra
2017 Performer
Chris Lehnertz
Superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park
2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Peter Rupert Lighte
Sinologist; Board Member, CIEE, the One Sky Foundation and Prudential Financial
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker
Eric Lindstrom
Climate Focus Area Lead and Physical Oceanography Program Scientist, NASA HQ
2017 Speaker • 2016 Speaker
Shadia Marhaban
Journalist, Activist and Peace Mediator, Mediators Beyond Borders International
2017 Speaker
Bill Marmon
Managing Editor, European Institute
2017 Speaker
Richard McCarthy
Executive Director, Slow Food USA
2017 Speaker
Kathryn F. Medler
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
2017 Speaker
Jerry Michalski
Founder, Open Global Mind
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker
Stephen Moore
Contributor, CNN • Former Economic Advisor, President Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign
2017 Speaker • 2020 Guest Speaker
Dava Newman
Former Deputy Administrator of NASA & Astronautics Professor at MIT
2017 Speaker
John Harrison Nichols
National Affairs Writer, The Nation, Co-Founder, Free Press, and Author
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker
Pia M. Orrenius
Vice President and Senior Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
2017 Speaker
Ted Osius
Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, U.S. Department of State
2017 Speaker
Eliot Peper
Novelist & Strategist
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2022 Speaker
Sidney Perkowitz
Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University
2017 Speaker
Reza Ramazani
Professor of Economics, Saint Michael's College
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus
April Rinne
Founder and Advisor, April Worldwide
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker
William Ryerson
President, Population Media Center, South
2017 Speaker
Anita Sarkeesian
Creator and Executive Director, Feminist Frequency
2017 Speaker
Ellie Schafer
Former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, The White House
2017 Speaker
Lloyd I. Sederer
Chief Medical Officer, New York State Office of Mental Health • Medical Editor for Mental Health, The HuffPost • Adjunct Professor, Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Eugene Sepulveda
CEO of Entrepreneurs Foundation and Director of Capital Factory
2017 Speaker
Joe Sexton
Senior Editor, ProPublica
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Seth Shostak
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
2017 Speaker • 2016 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker
Marshall Steinbaum
Senior Economist and Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
2017 Speaker
Frank C. Strasburger
Former Episcopal chaplain, Princeton University • Founding president, Princeton in Africa
2017 Speaker
Ellen Sweets
Author • Writer • Former Reporter
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
James Tanabe
Independent International Circus Producer • Former Senior Director of Creative Strategy, Cirque du Soleil
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer
Ty Tashiro
Author and Social Scientist
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Michelle Thaller
Assistant Director of Science, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
2017 Speaker • 2019 Speaker
Mary Reynolds Thompson
Facilitator of Poetry and Journal Therapy, Live Your Wild Soul
2017 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker
Gerrit Verschuur
Astronomer Emeritus, Arecibo Observatory
2017 Speaker
Steven Vertovec
Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
James Etienne Viator
Professor of Law, Loyola University College of Law
2017 Speaker
Sofía Villarreal-Castañeda
Assistant Professor, Programa de Estudios Argentinos y Latinoamericanos (PEAL), University of Belgrano
2017 Speaker
Roger Walton
General Manager - Americas, Quantexa Ltd.
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker
Ernie Watts
Jazz Musician & Composer
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer • 2020 Performer • 2021 Performer • 2022 Performer
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides
Future Astronaut, Virgin Galactic, Co-Creator, Yuri’s Night
2017 Speaker
David Wilcox
Musician
2017 Performer • 2016 Performer
Florence Williams
Non-Fiction, Contributing Editor, Outside Magazine, & Freelance Journalist
2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
Kenji Williams
Founder, Creative Director & Composer BELLA GAIA
2016 Performer • 2017 Speaker • CU Alumnus
G. Willow Wilson
Novelist & Comic Book Author
2017 Speaker
Lizz Winstead
Co-Creator & Former Head Writer, The Daily Show, Co-Founder, Air America Radio, and Founder, Lady Parts Justice League
2017 Speaker
Timothy E. Wirth
Vice Chairman, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker