Past Series Speakers
2019 | John Kasich, Former Ohio Governor and New York Times bestselling author
2016 | Byron Pitts, multiple Emmy award winning journalist and ABC Nightline co-anchor.
2014 | Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist/Author and Political Analyst.
2013 | Howard Dean, medical doctor, former Vermont governor, and 2004 presidential candidate.
2012 | John Quiñones, ABC News correspondent and host of the popular television show “What Would You Do?”
2011 | Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, professor, bestselling author, and popularizer of science.
2010 | Eleanor Clift, political reporter, television pundit and author.
2007 | Lee Hamilton, Former Member of Congress and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
2005 | Leonard Pitts, Jr. Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist.
2003 | Pat Buchanan, political commentator, former White House Press Secretary, and former presidential candidate.
2002 | Mark Shields, political columnist and commentator.
2001 | Jane Bryant Quinn, financial columnist.
2000 | Stephen Jay Gould, palaeontologists and evolutionary biologist.
1999 | Tony Snow, political columnist and TV commentator.
1998 | Mario Cuomo, former Governor and former presidential candidate.