Past Lectures

Name

Lecture Title

Year

Wesley Hamilton

Overcoming Any Obstacle by Allowing Disruptions

2024

Dr. Ferial Pearson, Ph.D.

The Power of Story and the Danger of Absense

2023

Autumn Rose Miskweminanocsqua Williams

Youth Advancing Social Justice: How to be a Changemaker

2022

V. Kaye Monk-Morgan

Civic Leadership for the Common Good

2021

Dr. Mildred Edwards

Authenticity and Vulnerability in Leadership: Why Here? Why Now?

2020

Mayor Michelle De La Isla

Leading from Where You're At

2019

Dr. Evelyn Hill

Enabling Homeless Children to be Successful in School

2018

Dr. Steve Perry

Revolutionizing Education in America

2017

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Rethinking Education in America: A Fifty Year Perspective

2016

Ken Carter

Average is Just Not Good Enough. PERIOD!

2014

Michele Norris

2013

Carissa Phelps

“Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets One Helping Hand at a Time”

2012

Jeff Chang

"Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation"

2011

Bill Strickland

The Art of Leadership and the Business of Social Change

2010

Herman Boone

2009

Dr. James Loewen

2008

Minnijean Brown Trickey

"Return to Little Rock"

2007

Vali R. Nasr

"The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future"

2007

Morris Dees

"A Passion for Justice"

2006

Cristina García

Beyond the Hyphen: Identity in the Age of Multiculturalism

2005

Billy Mills

"Global Unity Through Global Diversity"

2004

Julian Bond

Civil Rights: Now and Then

2003