Society & Culture Speakers — Page 3

Author of 'How to Be an Antiracist' and National Book Award winner for 'Stamped from the Beginning,' founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research....

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 'The Warmth of Other Suns' and 'Caste,' widely considered one of the most important historians writing today. He...

National Book Award-winning author of 'Between the World and Me' whose essay 'The Case for Reparations' reignited a national debate. He speaks on racial justice...

Civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers union alongside Cesar Chavez and created the slogan 'Sí Se Puede.' Medal of Freedom recipient who has...

Iconic actor who played 'The Fonz' and multiple Emmy Award winner for 'Barry' who discovered at age 31 that his childhood struggles were due to dyslexia and has...

Harvard psychologist and bestselling author of 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' and 'Enlightenment Now' who argues that the world is getting better despite wid...

Co-author of the 'Freakonomics' series and host of the 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast that has explored the hidden side of everything from economics to human beha...

Author of 'Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World' and 'The Sports Gene' who challenges the 10,000 hours rule and argues that breadth of experien...

Fashion expert, author, and television personality best known as mentor on 'Project Runway' who encourages creativity and innovation in design while embodying e...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple,' poet, and activist who has championed women's rights, Black liberation, and environmental justice for over ...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner — for 'The Underground Railroad' and 'The Nickel Boys' — one of the most celebrated novelists working in America today who transf...

Author of 'Bad Feminist' and 'Hunger,' professor, and one of the most incisive cultural commentators in America who writes on feminism, popular culture, and the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project at The New York Times who sparked one of the most significant debates about American history i...

Civil rights activist, host of 'Pod Save the People,' and one of the founding figures of the Black Lives Matter movement who was at the center of protests in Fe...

Robin DiAngelo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller 'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,' which has sold milli...

Michelle Alexander is the author of 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' which has been called 'the most important book publishe...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author whose novels 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun' have won multiple awards. Her TED Talk 'The Danger of a Singl...

Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and bestselling author of 'Mating in Captivity' and 'The State of Affairs,' exploring the intersection of desire, intimacy, an...

Erik Larson is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including 'The Devil in the White City,' 'Dead Wake,' and 'The Splendid and the Vile,' all of w...

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' which sold over 12 million copies worldwide, and 'Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.' Her work explor...

Michael Sandel is a Harvard professor whose course 'Justice' is one of the most popular in the university's history and the first Harvard course made freely ava...

Cornel West is a philosopher, activist, and public intellectual who has been a leading voice on racial justice and progressive politics for over four decades. H...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a professor at Harvard University and the host of PBS's 'Finding Your Roots,' which has become one of the most popular genealogy progra...

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and a professor emeritus at MIT who revolutionized linguistics with his theory of generative grammar. ...