Search Results

Joseph Lowery, co-founder, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; "The Challenge of Equality in the 21st Century"  

Ernesto Cortes, Jr., southwest regional director, International Areas Foundation; author, Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996) and co-author, Organizing's Past, Present and Future: Reclaiming Our Birthright (1998); "The I…

Charles Plott, Edward S. Harkness professor of economics and political science, California Institute of Technology; author, Market Stability: Backward Bending Supply in a Laboratory Experimental Market (2000) and "Marke…

Sylvia Earle, marine biologist, president, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research; author, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1996) and Dive (1999); "Swimming with Sharks: Women in the World of Business"  

Jared Diamond, professor of physiology, UCLA School of Medicine; author, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1992) and "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" (1999)  

Elaine Brown, former chairman, Black Panther Party; author, "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story" (1992)  

William Van Alstyne, William R. & Thomas S. Perkins chair of law, Duke University and visiting professor of law, UCLA; co-author, No State Shall Abridge: The 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights (1986) and author, Inte…

Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of psychology and social behavior, criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1994) and…

W.S. Merwin, U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, Migration (2005) and Summer Doorways: A Memoir (2005); "The Poet and Nature"  

A.S. Byatt, author, Possession: A Romance (1990) and A Whistling Woman (2002); "Glass as Metaphor: Reflections on the Development of My Work"