2026 Speakers

Laverne Cox

Emmy-winning actress, producer, LGBTQ+ advocate, and author

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Emerita, United States Congress

Ibram X. Kendi

Author, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

Monica Lewinsky

Activist, Writer, Producer

Tonya Mosley

Co-Host Fresh Air / Creator and Host of Truth Be Told

Kenny Mayne

Former ESPN Host, Podcast Host

Robby Hoffman

Emmy-winning writer, Emmy-nominated actor, and Comedian

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Author of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

Knute Berger

Host, Mossback's Northwest

Adam Schiff

U.S. Senator, California

Nick Zentner

Geologist, Host of Nick on the Rocks

Patricia Murphy

Host, Seattle Now / KUOW

Hanna Rosin

Host, Radio Atlantic

Tyler Foggatt

Host, The Political Scene

Danielle Pletka

Distinguished Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Kevin Sur

Host, KEXP's Sounds of Survivance

Paris Jackson

Host, The Newsfeed

David Rind

Host of CNN Podcast, "One Thing"

Girmay Zahilay

King County Executive

Rebecca Nagle

Writer and Host, First America

Laura Gibson

Musician / Writer

Daisy Hernández

Author, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth

Molly Webster

Senior Correspondent, Radiolab Co-Host

Gene Tagaban

Storyteller, Speaker, Mentor, Teacher and Counselor of the Spirit

Julia Ioffe

Author, MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia; Founding Partner, Washington Correspondent at Puck

Steve Phillips

Host of Democracy in Color podcast, Author, and Columnist at The Guardian, The Nation

Hozoji Matheson-Margullis

Musician, Helms Alee, Lozen, Tacos!, and Uukwuuk

John Donvan

Moderator-in-Chief

Brangien Davis

Cascade PBS, Arts and culture writer / television host

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist, Author of The Edge of Space and Time