A Conversation with
Steve Hahn
Professor, NYU
Author, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
Michael Kazin
Editor, Dissent
Professor, Georgetown University
Elizabeth Sanders
Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University
Alex Keyssar (Moderator)
Professor of History and Social Policy, Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, HKS

Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
The Inaugural James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality

Thomas Piketty
Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics.
Author of the international best-seller, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'
Douglas Elmendorf (Moderator)
Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

*Please Note: Floor seats will be reserved for Harvard ID holders. All seating is available on a first-arrive basis. Doors will close when capacity is reached.

A Conversation with
Edward O. Wilson
Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology at Harvard University
Author, The Origins of Creativity, Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner
Terry Tempest Williams
Writer-in-residence, Harvard Divinity School
Naturalist and Environmental Writer
Author, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
Jonathan B. Jarvis
Director, U.S. National Park Service (2009-2017) 
Executive Director, Institute for Parks, People and Biodiversity, University of California, Berkeley
Author, The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water
Linda J. Bilmes (Moderator)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Member, National Park Service Advisory Board

A Conversation with
Tina Tchen
Partner, Buckley Sandler
Leader, Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund
Chief of Staff, Office of First Lady Michelle Obama
Harvard College '78
Mona Charen
Syndicated Columnist
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Victoria A. Budson (Moderator)
Founder & Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), Harvard Kennedy School
Chairperson, Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women (2011-2016)

This event has been postponed due to weather.

A Conversation with
David Jolly
Congressman (R-FL 13, 2014-2017)
Analyst, CNN & MSNBC
Patrick Murphy
Congressman (D-FL 18, 2013-2017)
Mark Gearan (Moderator)
Director, Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School

A Conversation with Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School:
Ryan Deitsch
Matt Deitsch
Emma Gonzalez
David Hogg
Cameron Kasky
Alex Wind

Meighan Stone (Moderator)
Fellow, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, HKS (2017)
President, Malala Fund (2015-2017)

Welcome Remarks by
Mark Gearan
Director, Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School

Introductory Remarks by
David T. Ellwood
Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

A Conversation with
Atul Gawande
Director, Ariadne Labs
Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Cristine Russell (Moderator)
Science Journalist
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Keynote Speech by
Martha Raddatz
Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News
Co-Anchor, This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Nicco Mele (Moderator)
Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, HKS

Katie Packer Beeson
Founding Partner, Burning Glass Consulting
Deputy Campaign Manager, Romney for President Campaign (2012)
Lina Esco
Activist and Actress, S.W.A.T., KINGDOM, Free The Nipple
Jane Mansbridge
Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School
Author, Why We Lost the ERA
Johanna Maska
CEO, Global Situation Room
Director of Press Advance, President Barack Obama Campaign and White House (2007-2015)
Victoria A. Budson (Moderator)
Founder & Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), Harvard Kennedy School
Chairperson, Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women (2011-2016)

William N. Brownsberger
Massachusetts State Senator,
Second Suffolk and Middlesex Counties
Dr. Mark Eisenberg
Primary Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Advocate for Safe Injection Facilities
Harvard Medical School ‘80
Alex Hogan
Multimedia Journalist, STAT News
Documentary Filmmaker, “Runnin”
Sheila Burke (Moderator)
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Executive Dean, HKS (1996-2000)
Chief of Staff, Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (1985-1996)

Richard Cohen
President, Southern Poverty Law Center
Cornell William Brooks
President and CEO, NAACP (2014-2017)
President and CEO, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (2007-2014)
Senior Counsel and Special Counsel, Federal Communications Commission (1999-2007)
2017 Visiting Fellow and Director of Campaigns and Advocacy Program (CAP), HKS
Archon Fung
Academic Dean and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, HKS
Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HKS
Sarah Wald
Senior Policy Advisor and Chief of Staff, HKS
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
Former Assistant Attorney General, MA
Former President, Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association

A Conversation with
David Miliband
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, UK (2007-2010)
Nicholas Burns (Moderator)
Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, HKS
Faculty Director, Future of Diplomacy Project; Faculty Chair, Middle East Initiative, HKS