Former Featured Speakers
2012-2013
Lee Hirsch
Aron Ralston
Frank Abagnale
Col. Eileen Collins
2011-2012
Michelle Rhee
Peter Bergen
Bill Nye
Joshua Foer
2010-2011
Jan Egeland
Liz Pulliam-Weston
Max Weinberg
Jerome Ringo
2009-2010
Byron Pitts
Tom Daschle
Jerry Greenfield
2008-2009
Michele Norris
Rob Corddry
Mike Brown
Jack Hanna
2007-2008
Tim Robbins
John Dau and Christopher Quinn
Jean-Michel, Céline and Fabien Cousteau
Dave Barry
2006-2007
F.W. de Klerk
Jeff Corwin
Christopher Gardner
Spencer Wells
Lisa Ling
2005-2006
Ben Stein
Jonathan Kozol
Anderson Cooper
Harry Paul
2004-2005
Carlos Watson, Katty Kay, Hafez al-Mirazi & Terrance Smith
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Christine Todd Whitman
Forbidden Broadway
Brannon Braga
2003-2004
Robert Novak
Spike Lee
Scott Turow
Sir Martin Gilbert
General Wayne Downing
2002-2003
Jean Sherman Chatzky
Peter Hilary & Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Benazir Bhutto
Peter Bergan, Robert Baer, Dr. Bruce Hoffman & Jack Beatty
2001-2002
George J. Mitchell
The Capitol Steps
Dava Sobel
David McCullough
2000-2001
Jehan Sadat
Ken Burns
Brandi Chastain
David Gergen
1999-2000
Ellis Marsalis
Dr. Robert M. Gates
Rita Dove
Jane Bryant Quinn
1998-1999
George Stephanopoulos
Al Roker
James McPherson
Helen Thomas
John Berendt
1997-1998
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sarah Weddington
Yolanda King
Mary Higgins Clark
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
1996-1997
David Broder
Barbara Bergmann & Terry Eastland
Greg Gumbel
Alan Cheuse
Olympia Dukakis
1995-1996
Warren Farrell
Julian Bond
Jesse Jackson
Beverly Sills
Tom Wolfe
Naomi Wolf
1994-1995
Benjamin Hooks
Nathan McCall
David Popenoe
John Updike
Frank Sesno
1993-1994
Pierre Salinger
Carol Tavris
Edward Albee
Nikki Giovanni
Harvey Wasserman & Cathy Roche
Robert Kennedy Jr.
Edward James Olmos
1992-1993
Linda Ellerbee
Dr. Art Ulene
Juan Williams
Irving R. Leine
Joyce Carol Oates
Ralph Nader
1991-1992
Dr. Ernest Boyer
Harvey Cathy
Shirley Chisholm
Leon Lederman
Professor Andrei Anikin
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Col. Guion Bluford
Howard Zinn & John Fleming
Kirkpatrick Sale