2024
Mitch Albom, internationally-renowned bestselling author, journalist, and philanthropist
Piper Kerman, author of the bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
2023
Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers, Pantsuit politics cohosts
David Brooks, NY Times Columnist and Best-Selling Author
The Art of Civil Discourse: A Campus-Community Conversation, Steve Darden, Opal Frye-Clark, Dr. David W. Harker, Dr. Martha Michieka
2022
Van Jones, CNN host and Dream Corps founder
Meghan McCain, political commentator and former co-host of The View
David Plazas, award-winning journalist
2020
Melissa Fitzgerald, actor and Advocating Justice Director for Justice for Vets
Mandy Harvey, American jazz and pop singer/songwriter
Jon Meacham, Pulitzer prize-winning presidential biographer and historian
Mike Wiley, playwright, director and actor
2019
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jennifer Palmieri, former White House Communications Director