CWA Speakers in the News

2019 CWA speaker, Berit Anderson shares her thoughts on how to fight misinformation and voter suppression in the lead-up to the midterms.

"Advice columnist" is not a role that is usually listed under former first lady and CWA speaker Eleanor Roosevelt's long list of achievements, but for over 20 years she wrote a popular write-in column, first for Ladies Home Journal and then McCall's magazine.

As our lives go digital, 2018 CWA guest speaker Jed Brubaker is studying what happens to all that data after we die.

Jose Antonio Vargas, pictured at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, has written a memoir of his life as an undocumented immigrant in Dear America.

John Nichols reviews the two very different senators working relationship to challenge the money power that even in the 1990s was beginning to render the Capitol dysfunctional.

Chris Lehnertz is the first female superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park and has worked to end its widespread the culture of harassment.

Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute, explains that as galaxies spread apart, extraterrestrials might want to assemble a nuclear "nest egg."

"He spent a fortune on tickets for a woebegone baseball team." Senior Editor at ProPublica Joe Sexton share an opinion for the New York Times.

Another Marvel writer is teaming up with DC Comics to write one of their biggest heroes: G. Willow Wilson, who has spent the last few years shepherding the adventures of Kamala Khan for Marvel, has just been announced as the new writer of DC’s ongoing Wonder Woman series.

Social Scientist Ty Tashiro gives a TedXNashville talk titled 'Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome'.