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2015-2016 School Year

2014-2015 School Year

2013-2014 School Year

2012-2013 School Year

2011-2012 School Year

Before 2011

Benjamin Ajak, co-author of They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
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
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author of The Pluto Files: the Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Jared Duval, author of Next Generation Democracy:
What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
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 of
Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries From World War I to Iraq
Tim Flannery, Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, and author of The Weather Makers
Craig Holdrege, founder and director of The Nature Institute, author of Beyond Biotechnology
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
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
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
Michael Shellenberger, co-author 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, Executive Director of the Drucker Institute, author of Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

San Francisco Waldorf High School's public lecture series brings today’s renowned authors, activists, artists, and thinkers together with students and community.

Lecture Series

Upcoming Lectures

Previous Lectures

2015-2016 School Year

2014-2015 School Year

2013-2014 School Year

2012-2013 School Year

2011-2012 School Year

Before 2011

Discover Waldorf Education

Alumni Take On The World

Welcome to SFWHS

Experience For Yourself

A Unique Approach

See the World

Artistry In Everything

Music Thrives

Competitive Team Sports

Leaders and Champions

Engaged and Active

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