Founder/Director, Institute of the American Dream
Topic: Holy Warrior Presidents
9/23/14: Harry Carson
NFL Hall of Fame Linebacker
Topic: Captain for Life
10/21/14: Bernard Kerik
Former Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
Topic: The Urgent Need for Criminal Justice and Prison Reform in America
11/6/14: Robert D. Braun
David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: Our Generation’s Space Race
11/13/14: Margaret Atwood
Award-winning Writer and Environmental Activist
Topic: Genre and Gender
12/4/14: General C. Robert Kehler
USAF (retired); Former Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
Topic: National Security in the 21st Century
12/9/14: George Packer
Staff Writer for The New Yorker
Topic: The Unwinding – America Today: A collapsing, changing nation
1/13/15: Cathy Willis Spraetz
President and CEO of Chimp Haven
Topic: Chimpanzees in Captivity: From Research to Retirement
1/23/15: Sarah Collins Rudolph and Tracy Snipe
Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombings with Tracy Snipe, Assoc. Professor at Wright State
Topic: Forgotten Girl, Forerunners to the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act
2/11/15: Susan Russell
Associate Professor of Theatre at Penn State; 2014-15 Penn State Laureate
Topic: Making Change Make Sense
