Daniel Pink with Michael Krasny, Spring 2011
Since 2006, we have hosted the following speakers:
- Benjamin Ajak, co-author of They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
- Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York; Destiny Disrupted
- Reza Aslan, author of No god But God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam; How to Stop A Cosmic War
- Melba Pattillo Beals, author of Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Mark Brecke, filmmaker, photographer, Darfur Darfur
- A Celebration of Courage: Women in Tanzania Program included Diane Raleigh, PhD., a clinical psychologist, Susan Rickert and Mary Ahlbach , who built schools in Tanzania, and Gloria Upchurch, a documentary photographer and executive director of A Global Connection.
- Claire Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
- Jared Duval, author of Next Generation Democracy:What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author of The Pluto Files: the Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
- Charles Emmerson,expert of geopolitics, author of The Future History of the Arctic
- Kathy Evans, poet, author of Imagination Comes to Breakfast
- Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger, editors ofStolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries From World War I to Iraq
- Tim Flannery, Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, and author of The Weather Makers
- Paul Gilding, former CEO of Greenpeace International
- Craig Holdrege, founder and director of The Nature Institute, author of Beyond Biotechnology
- Ed Kashi, photographer, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 years of Oil in the Niger Delta and Aging in America
- Paul Lewis, a psychotherapist who has worked with adolescents in our local community for 20 years
- Lewis Lapham, Editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, a magazine of history and ideas, in conversation with Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum
- Anna Lappe, author and the co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund.
- Anchee Min, memoirist and novelist, author of Red Azalea, Katherine, Becoming Madame Mao, Wild Ginger,Empress Orchid and The Last Empress, and Pearl of China.
- Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time
- Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith, authors of Van Gogh: A Life
- Daniel Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us in conversation with Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum
- Robert Pinsky, poet and translator of The Inferno of Dante
- Diana Reiss, Dolphin Scientist
- Lisa See, novelist
- Michael Shellenberger, coauthor of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
- Joseph Stiglitz, Noble Prize-winning economist and author of Making Globalization Work
- Eric Utne, founder of The Utne Reader
- Rick Wartzman, author of Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
