Visiting Speakers

Dr. Sylvia Earle
Oct. 6, 2011

Oceanographer

Wes Moore
Oct. 6, 2010

Youth advocate and author of
The Other Wes Moore

Blake Mycoskie
March 25, 2010

Founder and chief shoe giver for TOMS Shoes;
social entrepreneurship

Dr. Vandana Shiva
Oct. 26, 2009

Biodiversity and Conservation Activist

Arun Gandhi
Oct. 17, 2008

Peace activist and diversity speaker;
founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence;
grandson of famous Gandhi

F.W. de Klerk
Nov. 1, 2007

Nobel Prize winner and former president of South Africa

Mike Ditka
Oct. 22, 2007

Pro Football Hall of fame, Former Bears coach, player

Dr. Hanoch McCarty
Oct. 26, 2006

Author, Chicken Soup: The Transforming Power That’s Built Into Your Personal Stories

Barack Obama
Sept. 22, 2006

U.S. Senator- Illinois, presidential candidate

Mary Robinson
April 21, 2006

Former president and first woman president of Ireland

Richard Durbin
April 19, 2006

U.S. Senator- Illinois

Dr. Khassan Baiev
March 21, 2006

Author, A Surgeon Under Fire

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Oct. 6, 2005

Environmentalist and author of
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy

Rosario Marin
Sept. 22, 2005

Former U.S. treasurer

Fr. Andrew Greeley
April 28, 2005

Renowned author of many books

Julian Bond
Oct. 6, 2004

Civil right leader and former chairman
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Robert Novak
May 8, 2004

National syndicated conservative columnist

Herman Boone
April 8, 2004

Football coach
subject of the film Remember the Titans