Past Speakers
Past Speakers
2019-2020
![Rebecca Skloot](/getmedia/1784dbf6-2604-4705-bc4e-4a7aff4bbb50/Rebecca.jpg)
Rebecca Skloot
2018-2019
![Adam Steltzner](/getmedia/0eaf366f-f409-46ba-8499-23884805842a/hs-Adam-Steltzner.jpg)
Adam Steltzner
![Nicholas Carr](/getmedia/b8b87f0a-6e7d-4d54-b6a8-a49e022d050a/hs-Nick-Carr.jpg)
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is a compelling writer and speaker whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and culture. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us (2014), and his previous work, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations (2016), continues his exploration of the Internet’s impact on society.
![Nina Tandon](/getmedia/74153994-d920-4f9c-815c-44fa8c050e35/hs-Nina-Tandon.jpg)
Nina Tandon
Nina Tandon is at the cutting edge of science where sci-fi meets reality. She works on growing artificial hearts and bones that can be put into the body, and studies the new frontier of biotech: homes, textiles, and videogames made of cells. CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, Tandon was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
2017-2018
![Maria Konnikova](/getmedia/b77a7a74-5917-40a5-a11e-599820b324a3/hs-maria-konnikova.jpg)
Maria Konnikova
![Domenico Montanaro](/getmedia/f0af1ee9-4a70-4cd5-b553-e9c523d14da3/hs-domenico-montanaro.jpg)
Domenico Montanaro
![Josh Earnest](/getmedia/396be9fb-fb76-4eac-b19f-a3e5d306062f/hs-earnest-josh.jpg)
Josh Earnest
2016-2017
![Nikki Giovani](/getmedia/a26e7a01-cff9-4246-9ab5-d6c4ce576cc4/hs-Nikki-Giovanni.jpg)
Nikki Giovani
![Mira Nair](/getmedia/47256435-1a9c-499e-a3ad-942dab74101a/hs-Mira-Nair.jpg)
Mira Nair
![Sarah Lewis](/getmedia/fb666950-98df-4f4c-9cf7-f9779000c89a/hs-Sarah-Lewis.jpg)
Sarah Lewis
2015-2016
![Dr. William Phillips](/getmedia/e3457eb6-4cb1-487b-9dbc-00a4d63123bb/hs-phillips.jpg)
Dr. William Phillips
![Dr. Mae C. Jemison](/getmedia/c1e31d49-07ae-45d6-b8b6-bb2505fff214/hs-jemison.jpg)
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
![Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman](/getmedia/f9b089c4-e3e1-4a5e-ba94-102fd0fd77e0/hs-kaufman.jpg)