
Millie Chen
Visual, Audio, and Performative Artist; Professor of Art, University at Buffalo
2018 Performer

Eva Hagberg Fisher
Writer, Educator, Architectural Historian, and Activist
2018 Speaker

Amanda Gorman
Inaugural youth poet laureate of the United States
2018 Performer • Notable Past Participant

Lena Gutschank
Aerialist, Dancer, Contortionist, Actress, Entrepreneur
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer

Kayhan Irani
Playwright, Community Cultural Activist, Theater of the Oppressed Trainer
2018 Speaker

Kevin Kling
Storyteller and Playwright
2018 Performer

Kate Lesta
Community-Minded Culture & Arts Organizer, Curator, Manager & Producer
2018 Speaker

Clare Muireann Murphy
Storyteller
2018 Speaker

Maurice Sherif
French Photographer • CU Art/Art History Visiting Lecturer
2018 Speaker

Michael Spencer
Professor of Theater and Performance Design, Central Saint Martins
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

James Tanabe
Independent International Circus Producer • Former Senior Director of Creative Strategy, Cirque du Soleil
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer

Jose P De La Fuente
Director, SMC Consulting
2018 Speaker

Jenny Fielding
Managing Director, Techstars
2018 Speaker

Martha Clark Goss
Independent Director, American Water Works
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Fred Haberman
CEO & Co-Founder, Haberman; Co-Founder, Urban Organics
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker

Jerry Michalski
Founder, REX
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Reza Ramazani
Professor of Economics, Saint Michael's College
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • CU Alumnus

April Rinne
Founder and Advisor, April Worldwide
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Mara Steiu
Founder, iXperiment • Co-founder, FairFunders • Product Design, AiFi
2018 Speaker

Lisa Swenerton
General Manager & Director, Southern California Edison Carrier Solutions
2018 Speaker

Ben Wagner
Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
2018 Speaker

Roger Walton
General Manager - Americas, Quantexa Ltd.
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Tracey Holloway
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; President, Earth Science Women's Network; Leader, NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team
2018 Speaker

David Orr
Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College
2018 Speaker

Perry Samson
Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan; Co-Founder, The Weather Underground
2018 Speaker

Susan Shaw
Environmental Health Scientist, Explorer, and Ocean Conservationist, Founder and Executive Director of the Marine & Environmental Research Institute
2018 Speaker

Jennifer Thomsen
Assistant Professor of Parks, Tourism, and Recreation Management, University of Montana
2018 Speaker

Alexander Verbeek
Founder, Institute for Planetary Security
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Kate Williams
CEO, 1% for the Planet
2018 Speaker

Francisco Zamora Arroyo
Director, Colorado River Delta Program, Sonoran Institute
2018 Speaker

Janice Engel
Director, Producer, Award-winning Filmmaker and Show-runner
2018 Speaker

Danielle Feinberg
Director of Photography (Lighting), Pixar Animation Studios
2018 Speaker

Josh Larsen
Co-Host, Filmspotting • Film Critic, Think Christian
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Carlisle Vandervoort
Producer, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
2018 Speaker

Chris Borland
Former NFL Linebacker • Meditation Teacher, Search Inside Yourself • Producer, Co-Laboratory Studios
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Deliana Garcia
Director of International Projects, Research, and Development, Migrant Clinicians Network
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 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

Ty Tashiro
Author and Social Scientist
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Charles van der Horst
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina
2015 Speaker • 2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Zhana Vrangalova
Sex Researcher; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, New York University
2018 Speaker

Joe Cirincione
President, Ploughshares Fund • MSNBC Nuclear Security Analyst
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • CWA Speaker Series

Gabriel Demombynes
Program Leader for Human Development, World Bank
2018 Speaker

Ismail Elfath
International Soccer Referee, FIFA
2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Ed Elmendorf
Past President, United Nations Association
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Jeffrey A. Engel
Director, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
2018 Speaker

Larry Greenwood
President, Japan Society of Northern California
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Malou Innocent
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute
2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Kemal Kirişci
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project, Brookings Institution
2018 Speaker

Peter Rupert Lighte
Sinologist; Board Member, CIEE, the One Sky Foundation and Prudential Financial
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Susi Snyder
President, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Humanitarian Disarmament Programme, PAX, Utrecht
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • Notable Past Participant

Margo Squire
International Affairs Consultant • Retired Foreign Services Officer, U.S. Department of State
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Christina Tobias-Nahi
Director of Public Affairs, Islamic Relief USA
2018 Speaker

Ross Wilson
Interim Chargé d'Affaires to Georgia & Former Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan, U.S. Department of State
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Bonnie Burton
Author; Journalist; Comedian; Actress; Show Host; Former Senior Editor, StarWars.com, Lucasfilm
2018 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Robert George
Editorial Writer, New York Daily News
2018 Speaker

Lisa Graves
Co-Director, Documented
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Ian Millhiser
Senior Correspondent, Vox
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

John Harrison Nichols
National Affairs Writer, The Nation, Co-Founder, Free Press, and Author
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Charlie Oliver
Founder and CEO, Tech 2025
2018 Speaker

Joe Sexton
Senior Editor, ProPublica
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Ellen Sweets
Author • Writer • Former Reporter
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Cyrille Aimée
Singer, Songwriter, & Improviser
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer

Rony Barrak
Percussionist, Composer, Instructor
2016 Performer • 2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer

Claire Daly
Baritone Saxophonist
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer

Adrean Farrugia
Pianist, Composer, and Educator
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer

Lisa Marie Simmons
Singer, Songwriter, Poet & Blogger
2018 Speaker

Ernie Watts
Jazz Musician & Composer
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer • 2020 Performer

Ronald Wilkins
Musician, Vocalist, Composer, Educator
2018 Performer

Roman Zavada
Pianist; Composer of Résonances Boréales
2018 Performer

Susan Low Bloch
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
2018 Speaker

David Campbell
Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Michael G. Franc
Director, Washington, D.C. Programs, Hoover Institution
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Elisabeth MacNamara
Past National President, League of Women Voters
2018 Speaker

Gregory K. Tanaka
Director, Center for the Study of Democracy and Social Change • Instructor, University of San Francisco
2018 Speaker

Timothy E. Wirth
Vice Chairman, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Diana S. Aga
Professor of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
2018 Speaker

Deborah Bryant
Senior Director, Open Source and Standards, Red Hat; Board Director, Open Source Initiative
2018 Speaker

Adam Frank
Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester • NPR Science Blogger • Author
2018 Speaker

David Grinspoon
Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Michael D. L. Johnson
Assistant Professor of Immunobiology, The University of Arizona
2018 Speaker

Eliot Peper
Novelist & Strategist
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Heather M. Roff
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind; Associate Fellow, University of Cambridge; Future of War Fellow, New America
2018 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Pamela Ronald
Professor, Dept Plant Pathology & the Genome Center, University of California, Davis. Co-author, "Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food”
2018 Speaker

Tony Seba
Co-Founder, RethinkX • Author & Educator, Stanford University • Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, Silicon Valley
2018 Speaker

Brandon D. Anderson
American Sociologist • Criminal Justice Advocate • U.S. Army Veteran • Founder, Raheem AI
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

James R. Bell
Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Tulio K. Cardozo
Technical Manager, The Last Mile Works, San Quentin State Prison
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Gabriel Demombynes
Program Leader for Human Development, World Bank
2018 Speaker

Valentino Achak Deng
Executive Director, Valentino Achak Deng Foundation
2018 Speaker

Jamison Green
Transgender Advocate; President, Jamison Green & Associates
2018 Speaker

Rosanne Haggerty
CEO, Community Solutions
2018 Speaker

William Thorne
Retired Judge, Utah Court of Appeals and Tribal Courts
2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Teresa C. Younger
President and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women • Former Executive Director, Connecticut General Assembly’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women • Former Executive Director, ACLU of Connecticut
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker

Amanda Gorman
Inaugural youth poet laureate of the United States
2018 Performer • Notable Past Participant

Maggie Duncan Simbeye
Executive Director and Founder of Dare Women’s Foundation
2018 Speaker

Erin Vilardi
Founder and Director, VoteRunLead
2018 Speaker

Raoul Adamchak
Farm Manager, UC Davis Student Farm
2018 Speaker

Katherine Alford
Former Senior Vice President of Culinary, The Food Network; Consultant, Chefs Collaborative
2018 Speaker

Fred Haberman
CEO & Co-Founder, Haberman; Co-Founder, Urban Organics
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker

David R. Montgomery
Professor of Geomorphology, University of Washington
2018 Speaker

Pamela Ronald
Professor, Dept Plant Pathology & the Genome Center, University of California, Davis. Co-author, "Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food”
2018 Speaker

Adam Frank
Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester • NPR Science Blogger • Author
2018 Speaker

David Grinspoon
Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker

Jennifer Thomsen
Assistant Professor of Parks, Tourism, and Recreation Management, University of Montana
2018 Speaker

Alexander Verbeek
Founder, Institute for Planetary Security
2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker

Kate Williams
CEO, 1% for the Planet
2018 Speaker