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Michelle Alexander

Civil Rights Advocate, Legal Scholar

Michelle Alexander | October 2, 2012 | Wortham Center | The Progressive Forum

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives

Nancy Pelosi | June 12, 2009 | Wortham Center | The Progressive Forum

Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors

Richard Leakey

Paleoanthropologist, Conservationist, Statesman

Richard Leakey | October 28, 2010 | Wortham Center | The Progressive Forum

Brian Greene

Theoretical Physicist

Brian Greene | September 29, 2009 | Wortham Center | The Progressive Forum

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pulitzer Prize Winner