*Event themes of the 2021 Conference on World Affairs include: racism in the U.S., health care and Generation Z.
Event details and livestream information can be found here: Virtual Conference on World Affairs tackles racism in the U.S., Gen Z, health care, more

Jean Abbott
Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
2021 Speaker

Wisdom Amouzou
Executive Director at Empower Community High School • Co-Founder, HadaNõu Collective
2021 Speaker

Kinan Azmeh
Clarinetist and Composer
2017 Performer • 2021 Performer

Dan Balz
Chief Correspondent, The Washington Post
2021 Speaker

Bijoux Barbosa
Instructor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 Guest Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer

David S. Bassiouni
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Bassiouni Group • Former Diplomat, South Sudan Government • Former UN and UNICEF Representative
2021 Speaker

Margaret Pabst Battin
Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Medical Ethics, University of Utah
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Dereck Bell
Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs
2021 Performer

James R. Bell
Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Amy Giles Bhikha
Chief Data Officer, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
2021 Speaker

John Biewen
Audio Program Director & Podcast Host, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
2021 Speaker

Diksha Bijlani
Spoken Word Poet
2021 Speaker

Jeffrey Blattner
Adjunct professor, University of Colorado Law School • Senior fellow, Silicon Flatirons Institute Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado • Special assistant attorney general, Colorado Department of Justice
2021 Speaker

Merrick Bobb
Executive Director, Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC) Los Angeles
2021 Speaker

Bonnie Burton
Author; Journalist; Comedian; TV and Games Writer; Show Host; Former Senior Editor at Lucasfilm
2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Ana Cabrera
Journalist & News Anchor, CNN
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Tania Chairez
National Outreach & Education Director, Motus Theater
2021 Performer

Robert Chesnut
Author; Former Chief Ethics Officer & Former General Counsel, Airbnb
2021 Speaker

Meia Chita-Tegmark
Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute • Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University
2021 Speaker

Dawn Clement
Pianist; Vocalist; Composer • Assistant Professor & Area Coordinator, Jazz and American Music Department, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2021 Performer

Claire Daly
Baritone Saxophonist
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2021 Performer

Aisha de Haas
Vocalist
2021 Performer

Karen Dufilho
Academy and Emmy award-winning producer • Former executive producer, Google & Pixar
2021 Speaker

Kathleen Ferrier
Former Member of Parliament, The Netherlands • Professor, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
2021 Speaker

David French
American political commentator • Former attorney • Senior editor, The Dispatch
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Peter Frumhoff
Director of Science and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists
2017 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Jeff Furman
President, Ben & Jerry's Foundation • Board of Directors Emeritus, Ben & Jerry's
2021 Speaker

Elena Gaby
Documentary Director and Producer
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Michelle D. Gavin
Senior Fellow for Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations • Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, U.S. Department of State
2021 Speaker

Marcelo Gleiser
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College • 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate
2021 Speaker

Guenever Goik
Head of 3D, RYOT Verizon Media
2021 Speaker

Sandra Gollnick
Distinguished Professor of Tumor Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
2021 Speaker

Brad Goode
CWA Musical Director • Associate Professor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 Guest Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer • 2022 Performer

Daniel Guillory
Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs
2021 Performer

Chris Gustavson
Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, University of Colorado Boulder
2021 Speaker

Daniel Hahn
Chief of Police, City of Sacramento California
2021 Speaker

Allison K. Hoffman
Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Christopher Horsethief
Educator • Organizational Theorist • Consultant, Ktunaxa Nation Council
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Elsie Iwase
Innovation Strategist
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Asher Jay
CEO, IncOperate
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Michael Jefferies
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Health
2021 Speaker

Bonnie Keeler
Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota
2021 Speaker

Daniel Kelley
Associate Director, Center for Technology and Society, Anti-Defamation League
2021 Speaker

Micklina Kenyi
Executive Director & Head of School, Empowerment Through Education Foundation
2018 Guest Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Andrei Khurshudov
Director, IoT Analytics, CAT Digital
2021 Speaker

Darrell G. Kirch
President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges
2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Founding CEO, The Truman National Security Project
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Kevin Kling
Storyteller and Playwright
2018 Performer • 2021 Performer

Rebecca Komarek
Assistant Director, Idea Forge, University of Colorado Boulder
2021 Speaker

Denise Lieberman
Civil Rights Attorney • Faculty Director, Voter Access & Engagement Initiative, Washington University
2021 Speaker • 2022 Guest Speaker

Amy Lopez
Licensed Clinical Social Worker • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
2021 Speaker

Stella Lunyaramoi
Director, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Participant, The Dawn Will Break"
2021 Speaker

Moses Ma
Managing Partner, FutureLab Consulting
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Asad J. Malik
CEO, Jadu
2021 Speaker

Amanda Marin-Chollom
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Central Connecticut State University
2021 Speaker

Mike Marlier
Director, Drum Set Studies, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
2018 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer

Michael D. McCarty
Black Panther Party alumni • Multi-cultural story teller
2021 Speaker

Jonathan Metzl
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
2021 Speaker

Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Representative, Colorado House District 30
2021 Speaker

Jerry Michalski
Founder, Open Global Mind
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Branko Milanovic
Stone Center Senior Scholar & Visiting Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2021 Speaker

Juaquin Mobley
Monologist, Motus Theater JustUs
2021 Performer

John Harrison Nichols
National Affairs Writer, The Nation, Co-Founder, Free Press, and Author
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

George Odhiambo Otieno
Storyteller • Critical Care RN
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Onye Ozuzu
Dean, University of Florida, College of the Arts
2021 Speaker

Christian Picciolini
Award-winning television producer • Author • Peace Advocate • Founder of the Free Radicals Project
2021 Speaker

Reza Ramazani
Professor of Economics, Saint Michael's College
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Mike Reiss
Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, The Simpsons
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • Notable Past Participant

Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction Novelist
2021 Speaker

Carl Safina
Ecologist • Author of "Becoming Wild"
2021 Speaker

Jake Sally
COO, Jadu • Emmy-nominated producer
2021 Speaker • 2022 Guest Speaker

Josef F. Schmid III
NASA Flight Surgeon • Aquanaut • Air Force Major General
2021 Speaker

Gavriella Schuster
Executive Board Director • DEI Advocate • Former Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Jacob Segil
Senior Instructor, Engineering Plus • Managing Director, Center for Translational Research • Research Healthcare Scientist, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
2021 Speaker

Jonathan Santos Silva, Sr.
Founder, Liber Institute
2021 Speaker

Mark P. Stewart
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and instrument designer
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Kate Stone
CEO, Novalia Ltd. UK and NovaliaUSA Inc. USA
2021 Speaker

Ty Tashiro
Author and Social Scientist
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker • CU Alumnus

William Thorne
Retired Judge, Utah Court of Appeals and Tribal Courts
2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Trine Tsouderos
Managing Editor, PwC Health Research Institute
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Pauline Vande-Pallen
Programme Officer, Gender and Economic Policy, Third World Network (TWN) Africa
2021 Speaker

Alex S. Vitale
Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College
2021 Speaker

Kimberly Voll
Co-founder, Fair Play Alliance • Co-founder, Stray Bombay Company
2021 Speaker

Ernie Watts
Jazz Musician & Composer
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer • 2020 Performer • 2021 Performer • 2022 Performer

Lance Weiler
Storyteller • Entrepreneur • Thought leader
2021 Speaker

Ron Wilkins
Musician, Vocalist, Composer, Educator
2018 Performer • 2021 Performer

Dean Williams
Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections • Guest Performer, Motus Theater
2021 Performer

Kate Williams
CEO, 1% for the Planet
2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Lawrence Wongo
Vice President, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Associate Producer, "The Dawn Will Break"
2021 Speaker

Anashay Wright
Founder and Chief Executive Disruptor, Disruptive Partners
2021 Speaker

Po Chi Wu
Adjunct Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology • Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Matthew Wynia
Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
2021 Speaker

Robert B. Zoellick
Former President, World Bank Group • Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
2021 Speaker

Diksha Bijlani
Spoken Word Poet
2021 Speaker

Elena Gaby
Documentary Director and Producer
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Asher Jay
CEO, IncOperate
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Michael D. McCarty
Black Panther Party alumni • Multi-cultural story teller
2021 Speaker

George Odhiambo Otieno
Storyteller • Critical Care RN
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Onye Ozuzu
Dean, University of Florida, College of the Arts
2021 Speaker

Amy Giles Bhikha
Chief Data Officer, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
2021 Speaker

Jeffrey Blattner
Adjunct professor, University of Colorado Law School • Senior fellow, Silicon Flatirons Institute Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado • Special assistant attorney general, Colorado Department of Justice
2021 Speaker

Robert Chesnut
Author; Former Chief Ethics Officer & Former General Counsel, Airbnb
2021 Speaker

Jeff Furman
President, Ben & Jerry's Foundation • Board of Directors Emeritus, Ben & Jerry's
2021 Speaker

Chris Gustavson
Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, University of Colorado Boulder
2021 Speaker

Elsie Iwase
Innovation Strategist
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Rebecca Komarek
Assistant Director, Idea Forge, University of Colorado Boulder
2021 Speaker

Jerry Michalski
Founder, Open Global Mind
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Reza Ramazani
Professor of Economics, Saint Michael's College
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Gavriella Schuster
Executive Board Director • DEI Advocate • Former Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Trine Tsouderos
Managing Editor, PwC Health Research Institute
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Bonnie Keeler
Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota
2021 Speaker

Kate Williams
CEO, 1% for the Planet
2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

John Biewen
Audio Program Director & Podcast Host, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
2021 Speaker

Karen Dufilho
Academy and Emmy award-winning producer • Former executive producer, Google & Pixar
2021 Speaker

Elena Gaby
Documentary Director and Producer
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Mike Reiss
Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, The Simpsons
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • Notable Past Participant

Lawrence Wongo
Vice President, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Associate Producer, "The Dawn Will Break"
2021 Speaker

David S. Bassiouni
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Bassiouni Group • Former Diplomat, South Sudan Government • Former UN and UNICEF Representative
2021 Speaker

Kathleen Ferrier
Former Member of Parliament, The Netherlands • Professor, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
2021 Speaker

Michelle D. Gavin
Senior Fellow for Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations • Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, U.S. Department of State
2021 Speaker

Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Founding CEO, The Truman National Security Project
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Stella Lunyaramoi
Director, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Participant, The Dawn Will Break"
2021 Speaker

Branko Milanovic
Stone Center Senior Scholar & Visiting Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2021 Speaker

Pauline Vande-Pallen
Programme Officer, Gender and Economic Policy, Third World Network (TWN) Africa
2021 Speaker

Lawrence Wongo
Vice President, ETE Foundation Board of Directors • Associate Producer, "The Dawn Will Break"
2021 Speaker

Robert B. Zoellick
Former President, World Bank Group • Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
2021 Speaker

Dan Balz
Chief Correspondent, The Washington Post
2021 Speaker

Bonnie Burton
Author; Journalist; Comedian; TV and Games Writer; Show Host; Former Senior Editor at Lucasfilm
2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Ana Cabrera
Journalist & News Anchor, CNN
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

David French
American political commentator • Former attorney • Senior editor, The Dispatch
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

John Harrison Nichols
National Affairs Writer, The Nation, Co-Founder, Free Press, and Author
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Mike Reiss
Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, The Simpsons
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • Notable Past Participant

Kinan Azmeh
Clarinetist and Composer
2017 Performer • 2021 Performer

Bijoux Barbosa
Instructor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 Guest Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer

Dawn Clement
Pianist; Vocalist; Composer • Assistant Professor & Area Coordinator, Jazz and American Music Department, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2021 Performer

Claire Daly
Baritone Saxophonist
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2021 Performer

Aisha de Haas
Vocalist
2021 Performer

Brad Goode
CWA Musical Director • Associate Professor, Jazz Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 Guest Speaker • 2019 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer • 2022 Performer

Mike Marlier
Director, Drum Set Studies, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
2018 Guest Speaker • 2021 Performer

Mark P. Stewart
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and instrument designer
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Ernie Watts
Jazz Musician & Composer
2017 Performer • 2018 Performer • 2019 Performer • 2020 Performer • 2021 Performer • 2022 Performer

Ron Wilkins
Musician, Vocalist, Composer, Educator
2018 Performer • 2021 Performer

Dan Balz
Chief Correspondent, The Washington Post
2021 Speaker

Jeffrey Blattner
Adjunct professor, University of Colorado Law School • Senior fellow, Silicon Flatirons Institute Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado • Special assistant attorney general, Colorado Department of Justice
2021 Speaker

David French
American political commentator • Former attorney • Senior editor, The Dispatch
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
2016 Speaker • 2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2019 Speaker • 2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Denise Lieberman
Civil Rights Attorney • Faculty Director, Voter Access & Engagement Initiative, Washington University
2021 Speaker • 2022 Guest Speaker

Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Representative, Colorado House District 30
2021 Speaker

Meia Chita-Tegmark
Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute • Postdoctoral Scholar, Tufts University
2021 Speaker

Marcelo Gleiser
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College • 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate
2021 Speaker

Christopher Horsethief
Educator • Organizational Theorist • Consultant, Ktunaxa Nation Council
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Andrei Khurshudov
Director, IoT Analytics, CAT Digital
2021 Speaker

Moses Ma
Managing Partner, FutureLab Consulting
2019 Speaker • 2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction Novelist
2021 Speaker

Josef F. Schmid III
NASA Flight Surgeon • Aquanaut • Air Force Major General
2021 Speaker

Kate Stone
CEO, Novalia Ltd. UK and NovaliaUSA Inc. USA
2021 Speaker

James R. Bell
Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute
2017 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

John Biewen
Audio Program Director & Podcast Host, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
2021 Speaker

Merrick Bobb
Executive Director, Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC) Los Angeles
2021 Speaker

Jeff Furman
President, Ben & Jerry's Foundation • Board of Directors Emeritus, Ben & Jerry's
2021 Speaker

Daniel Hahn
Chief of Police, City of Sacramento California
2021 Speaker

Daniel Kelley
Associate Director, Center for Technology and Society, Anti-Defamation League
2021 Speaker

Micklina Kenyi
Executive Director & Head of School, Empowerment Through Education Foundation
2018 Guest Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Christian Picciolini
Award-winning television producer • Author • Peace Advocate • Founder of the Free Radicals Project
2021 Speaker

Jonathan Santos Silva, Sr.
Founder, Liber Institute
2021 Speaker

William Thorne
Retired Judge, Utah Court of Appeals and Tribal Courts
2016 Speaker • 2018 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Alex S. Vitale
Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College
2021 Speaker

Anashay Wright
Founder and Chief Executive Disruptor, Disruptive Partners
2021 Speaker

Daniel Hahn
Chief of Police, City of Sacramento California
2021 Speaker

Daniel Kelley
Associate Director, Center for Technology and Society, Anti-Defamation League
2021 Speaker

Denise Lieberman
Civil Rights Attorney • Faculty Director, Voter Access & Engagement Initiative, Washington University
2021 Speaker • 2022 Guest Speaker

Michael D. McCarty
Black Panther Party alumni • Multi-cultural story teller
2021 Speaker

Jonathan Metzl
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
2021 Speaker

Christian Picciolini
Award-winning television producer • Author • Peace Advocate • Founder of the Free Radicals Project
2021 Speaker

Karen Dufilho
Academy and Emmy award-winning producer • Former executive producer, Google & Pixar
2021 Speaker

Guenever Goik
Head of 3D, RYOT Verizon Media
2021 Speaker

Asad J. Malik
CEO, Jadu
2021 Speaker

Jake Sally
COO, Jadu • Emmy-nominated producer
2021 Speaker • 2022 Guest Speaker

Kimberly Voll
Co-founder, Fair Play Alliance • Co-founder, Stray Bombay Company
2021 Speaker

Lance Weiler
Storyteller • Entrepreneur • Thought leader
2021 Speaker

Jean Abbott
Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
2021 Speaker

Margaret Pabst Battin
Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Medical Ethics, University of Utah
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Sandra Gollnick
Distinguished Professor of Tumor Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
2021 Speaker

Allison K. Hoffman
Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
2020 Speaker • 2021 Speaker

Michael Jefferies
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Health
2021 Speaker

Darrell G. Kirch
President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges
2021 Speaker • CU Alumnus

Amy Lopez
Licensed Clinical Social Worker • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
2021 Speaker

Amanda Marin-Chollom
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Central Connecticut State University
2021 Speaker

Jonathan Metzl
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
2021 Speaker

Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Representative, Colorado House District 30
2021 Speaker

George Odhiambo Otieno
Storyteller • Critical Care RN
2021 Speaker • 2022 Speaker

Josef F. Schmid III
NASA Flight Surgeon • Aquanaut • Air Force Major General
2021 Speaker

Jacob Segil
Senior Instructor, Engineering Plus • Managing Director, Center for Translational Research • Research Healthcare Scientist, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
2021 Speaker

Matthew Wynia
Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, CU Anschutz Medical Campus
2021 Speaker