![Bill Clinton](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Bill-Clinton.jpg)
Bill Clinton
![Jay Leno](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Jay-Leno.jpg)
Jay Leno
![Loretta Lynch](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Loretta-Lynch.jpg)
Loretta Lynch
![Theresa May](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Theresa-May.jpg)
Theresa May
![Justice Sonia Sotomayor](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Justice-Sonia-Sotomayor.jpg)
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
![Tom Friedman](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Tom-Friedman.jpg)
Tom Friedman
![Madeleine Albright](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Madeleine-Albright.jpg)
Madeleine Albright
![Colin Powell](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Colin-Powell.jpg)
Colin Powell
![Jane Fonda](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Fonda.jpg)
Jane Fonda
![Rick Steves](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Rick-Steves.jpg)
Rick Steves
![Jeb Bush](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Jeb-Bush.jpg)
Jeb Bush
![Susan Rice](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Susan-Rice.jpg)
Susan Rice
![Rita Moreno](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Rita-Moreno.jpg)
Rita Moreno
![Dan Rather](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Dan-Rather.jpg)
Dan Rather
![Bill Nye](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Bill-Nye.jpg)
Bill Nye
![Van Jones](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Van-Jones.jpg)
Van Jones
![Ken Burns](https://www.baltimorespeakers.org/wp-content/uploads/Ken-Burns.jpg)
Ken Burns
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Justice Stephen Breyer
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2022-2023
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2021-2022
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2019-2020
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2018-2019
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2017-2018
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- Rick Steves
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2016-2017
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2015-2016
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2014-2015
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2013-2014
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- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
- Dave Barry
2012-2013
- President Bill Clinton
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2011-2012
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- Michelle Rhee
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- Michael Pollan
- Azar Nafisi
- Stanley McChrystal
- Tom Brokaw
2010-2011
- Thomas Friedman
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Frank Abagnale
- Peggy Noonan
- F. W. de Klerk
- Mark Shields
- Karl Rove and Howard Dean
2009-2010
- Pervez Musharraf
- Jean-Michel Cousteau
- Laura Bush
- Robert Reich
- Mia Farrow
- David Brooks
- Greg Mortenson
2008-2009
- Steve Forbes
- Paul Rusesabagina
- Garrison Keillor
- Bob Woodward
- Anna Quindlen
- Jane Goodall
- David McCullough
2007-2008
- Robert Ballard
- Ben Carson
- Cokie Roberts
- Madeleine Albright
- Salman Rushdie
- Frank McCourt
- The Capitol Steps
2006-2007
- Amy Tan
- James Lovell
- Colin Powell
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Michael Medved
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Beck Weathers