Here are just a few notable speakers from past years:
- Alia Malek Alia Malek is the author of A Country Called Amreeka, a set of profiles of Arab-Americans. Born in Baltimore to Syrian immigrant parents, she began her legal career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
- Seyla Benhabibis the Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She is the author of several books, most notably about the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas.
- Joan Roughgardenis Adjunct Professor at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, and a Professor of Biology, Emerita at the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford. She received her Ph.D. in Biology at Harvard University. She has also been Associate Editor or Co-Editor since 2008 of Philosophy and Theory in Biology.
- Angela Davis is Professor of Feminist Studies and Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Well-known for her activism, especially in the Civil Rights Movement, she focuses her work on women’s, gender, and racial equity and abolishing the prison-industrial complex.