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2012
Daniel Wildcat, professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and writer on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education.
Russ Feingold, former senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progresasives United
2011
Ali Noorani , executive director, National Immigration Forum
Karen Countryman-Roswurm, founder of the Anti-Sexual Exploitation Roundtable for Community Action
2010
Libuse Binder, author, How to Make A Difference in your 20's
2009
Nancy Jackson, Executive Director of the Land Institute's Climate and Energy Project
Simon Deng, Former child slave from the Sudan
David Hursh, Professor of Education at University of Rochester
2008
Paula Allen, Photographer and "Activist with a camera"
2007
Robert Egger, Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen
Loretta Ross, National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Larry Schweiger, Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation
2006
Thomas Frank, Author of the book, "What's the Matter With Kansas?"
David Mindich, Chair of the Journalism Department at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and author of "Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Tune Out the News "
Rink Dickinson, Co-founder and Co-executive director of Equal Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts
2005
David Eisenhower, Director of the Institute for Public Service Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Patricia Williams. Author/Law Professor/Cultural Commentator
Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
2004
Jack Duvall: Founding Director and President of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS series "A Force More Powerful"
Paul Rogat Loeb: Author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time and Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus
Phyllis Bennis: Fellow and Director of the New Internationalism Program of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. and Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam
Jeffrey Hollender: President and Corporate Responsibility Officer of Seventh Generation, the Leading Brand of Natural Household Products in the United States
Stephen Douglas: Retired Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Son of Lou and Mary Douglas
2003
Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Milo Mumgaard: Executive Director/ Attorney, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and an Inaugural winner of the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award
Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora, Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural development and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology, Iowa State University
2002
Sister Helen Prejean: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S.
Norman Solomon: Syndicated Columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ali A. Mazrui: Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria
2001
Juliette Beck: Policy Analyst at Global Exchange, San Francisco
Carl Rosen: President, District 11, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Chicago, IL
Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Women's Studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.: Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine and Co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
2000
Father Roy Bourgeois: Founder, School of Americas Watch
James K. Galbraith: Professor of Public Affairs and Government, University of Texas at Austin
Eugenie C. Scott: Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education I
Laura A. Cecere, M.S.W., J.D: Founder and Director of China Seas Adoption Agency
1999: THE LIMITS OF AUTHORITY
Noam Chomsky: Preeminent Linguist & Political Commentator
Molly Marshall: Professor of Theology, Women's Religious Advocate
Barney Frank: Democratic Congressman, 4th District Massachusetts
1998: NEWS YOU CAN USE
Ellen Wartella: University of Texas at Austin
Howard Zinn: Preeminent Historian
Barbara Trent: Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary 1993
1997: CHOICES & RIGHTS
James Howard Kunstler: Author
Rhoda H. Karpatkin: President, Consumer's Union
Malcolm C. Young: Executive Director, the Sentencing Project
Cynthia Price Cohen: Executive Director, Childrights International Research Institute
Timothy E. Quill: Associate Chief of Medicine at The Genesee Hospital
1996: DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE
Morris Dees: Civil Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
Dr. Michael Apple: John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Edward Luck: President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the USA
1995: THE PEOPLE COUNT
Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders: Former United States Surgeon General
Werner Fornos: Director, World Population Institute
Jack Weatherford: Cultural Anthropologist
FAMILY FARMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
Bob Bergland: Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Sarah Vogel: North Dakota Secretary of Agriculture
Lee Swenson: President, National Farmers Union
Ron Sampson: President, Mid-America Commercialization Corp.
1994: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE
Diana Gordon: Associate Professor of Political Science, City University, New York
Ron Takaki: Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth Davis: Author and Former Professor, Kansas State University
Jerry Mander: Senior Fellow, Public Media Center, San Francisco, California
1993: THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD FAIRNESS
Jeff Cohen: Co- Founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
Julianne Malveaux: African American Studies, University of California, Berkley
John Swomley, Jr.: Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City
Ved Nanda: University of Denver, College of Law
Ama Ata Aidoo: African Poet and Writer
1992: CHOICES FOR CHANGE
Bill Roy: Chair of the Kansas Commission on the Future of Health Care
Manning Marable: Professor of Political Science & Sociology, University of Colorado
Howard Zinn: Historian
Juliet Schor: Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Alan Thein Durning: Professor of Philosophy and Music
1991: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY BROUGHT HOME
Daniel Katz: Founder and President of the Rain Forest Alliance
Mark Richie: President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Lloyd Dumas: Professor of Political Economics at the University of Texas, Dallas
Holly Sklar: Writer and Lecturer
1990: 10th ANNIVERSARY SERIES
T.S. Farisani: Assistant Bishop of Venda Lutheran Church, South Africa
Molly Ivins: Reporter and Columnist
David Orr: Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Hunter Lovins: President of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Kenneth Boulding: Professor Emeritus University of Colorado
1989 FALL: ISSUES OF THE 1990'S
Myron Aronoff: Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Adm. Gene La Rocque: Director of the Center for Defense Information
Claribel Alegria: Poet and Author
Jim Nichols: Minnesota Commissioner of Agriculture
1989 SPRING: LIBERATING MOVEMENTS
Nomonde Ngubo: U.S. Rep. of the Confederation of South Africa Trade Unions
John Swomley: Internationally Known Theologian and Civil Libertarian
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod: Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
1988: U.S. POLITICS TODAY: A BICENTENNIAL VIEW
Richard Rhodes: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Michael Parenti: Professor of Political Science, Howard University
Stalely Cohen: Editor and contributor to Advertising Age
Barbara Ehrenreich: Author and Columnist
1987
Lester Thurow: Professor of Economics and Management, MIT
Evalina Kane: Writer and Organizer for Women Against Pornography
Samuel Bowles: Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Renny Golden: Poet and Member Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America
1986: "U.S. 1986: MYTH AND REALITY"
George Reiter: Professor of Physics, University of Houston
Frances Fox Piven: Professor of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
John Stockwell: Former Commander C.I.A.
Mitch Snyder: Community for Creative Non-Violence
1985: STANDING TALL: U.S. INTERESTS AND GLOBAL REALITIES
Sellig Harrison: Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Hyman Minsky: Professor of Economic, Washington University, St. Louis
Esther Peterson: International Organization of Consumer Unions' Rep. To U.N.
Patricia Mische: Co-founder of Global Education Assn.; Adjunct Prof., Seaton Hall
1984: THE AMERICAS IN CRISIS
Nancy Kassebaum: Republican United States Senator, Kansas
Efrain Diaz: Representative to Honduran Congress
Bill Buzenberg: National Public Radio
Joseph Collins: Co-founder of the Institute of Food Development
1983: ECONOMIC SURVIVAL IN A CHANGING WORLD
Paul Tsongas: Democratic United States Senator, Massachusetts
Frederick Taylor: Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal
Paul Sweezy: Editor, The Monthly Review
John Schnittker: Undersecretary, Department of Agriculture
Kirkpatrick Sale: Author and Editor of The Nation
1982: ARMS CONTROL AND SURVIVAL
Paul Cook: Special Assistant for Soviet Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence
Daniel Berrigan: S.J., Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist
Eugene Carroll, Jr: Retired Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Daniel Ellsberg: Advisor on U. S. Military Policy in Vietnam and Political Scientist
1981: PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Dick Clark: Former U.S. Senator, " Human Rights in Africa , An American Perspective"
Bill Sutherland: U.N. Observer in Zimbabwe after Majority Rule Elections
Roberty White: Former Ambassador to El Salvador
John McFadden: Educator with Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign
1980: A FOCUS ON THE PRESIDENCY
Governor John Carlin
Joe Hajda: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
Jacob Kipp: Professor of History, Kansas State University
Burt Kaufman: Professor of History, Kansas State University
T. A. Williams: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
Orma Linford: Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
John Exdell: Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University
James Butler: NAACP
Sister Jean McKenna: Office of the Governor
Scott Burnett: White House, Washington, D.C.
Sherry McGowan: Democratic Party
Mike Murray: Republican Party
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