You can view all our current Speakers Bureau presenters here. Hosts can apply to bring any speaker of their choice from our offerings below. Once you have selected which speakers you are interested in hosting, contact the Program Manager at speakers@humanities.org or 206-682-1770 ext. 101 to get started!

Please note that many of our 2019-2020 speakers have extended their term through June 30, 2021, while others will be ending their term as originally planned on December 31, 2020.

Arts & Literature

The Poetic Apothecary: Poems for Healing and Comfort

Judith Adams

From Homer to #hashtags: Our Changing Language

Christine Hemp

Comic-Book Reality: Superheroes and the Power of Representation

T. Andrew Wahl

History

Storm Warning: Historic Weather in the Evergreen State

Feliks Banel

Who Was Chief Seattle?

David Buerge

Sticky Subject: The History and Culture of Sugar

Julia Harrison

She Traveled Solo: Strong Women in the Early 20th Century

Tessa Hulls

Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion

Clarence Moriwaki

Sometimes Heroes: America’s Changing Relationship with Its Veterans

Jeb Wyman

Life & Culture

Washington on Wheels: Odd and Innovative Transportation Ideas from the Pacific Northwest

Harriet Baskas

What Do Sports Teach Our Kids?

Eric Davis

What Your Home Says about the World

Michelle Janning

Civil Conversation in an Angry Age

David Smith

Always On: How to Turn Up the Volume on Everyday Communication

Monica Cortés Viharo

Public Policy

From Crime to the Classroom: How Education Changes Lives

Omari Amili

What Happened to America’s Public Schools?

Johann Neem

Is Truth Really Dead in America?

Steven Stehr

Higher Power: The History of Evangelicals in American Politics

Matthew Sutton

Race & Identity

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Principal’s Office?

Daudi Abe

Let’s Talk about Race

Clyde Ford

From Mexican to Mexican-American: A Family Immigration Story

Carlos Gil

What’s Age Got to Do with It?

Dori Gillam

Equality on Trial: Race, Fairness, and the US Supreme Court

Timothy Golden

The Country That Fiction Built

Michelle Liu

Tangled: Why Your Hair Matters to Society

Anu Taranath

Science

Are Salmon Doomed? Hatching a Plan to Save a Northwest Icon

Nick Bond

Heating Up: The Ethics of Climate Change

Brian G. Henning