*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
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
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
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
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