Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership

Speakers

The Center has featured scores of individual speakers. The following is a partial listing of visitors connected to the Center.

International Figures:

• Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Betty Williams, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Madame Jetsun Pema, the sister of the Dalai Lama and first woman minister in the Tibetan government in exile
• Princess Elizabeth Bagaya of Toro, former foreign minister of Uganda
• H.R.H. Prince Soulivong Savang, leader of the royal family of Laos in exile Dennis Halliday, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General

The Middle East:

• Menachem Meir, Golda Meir's son
• Zeidan Atashi, Israeli Druze leader, who was a Visiting Scholar at the Center
• Yael Dayan, Israeli political figure and daughter of Moshe Dayan
• John Duke Anthony, CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
• Yuval Rotem, Israeli Counsel General in Los Angeles
• Mounir Farah, Associate Director of the King Fahd Middle East Studies Program at the the University of Arkansas
• Shaul Gabbay, Director, Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East, University of Denver
• Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University
• Martin Kramer,Moshe Dayan Center of Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University
• Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Director, Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva
• Jalal Hassan, Co-founder, Children Teaching Children program, Givat Haviva
• Shuli Dicter, Co-founder, Children Teaching Children program, Givat Haviva
• Benny Birmbaum, Israeli peace activist
• Smadar Perry, Israeli journalist
• Israelah Shakel, Israeli journalist
• Jonathan Kirsch, author, Moses: A Life and King David
• Ilise Cohen, Director, Middle East Peace Education, American Friends Service Committee
• Daniel Taub, Deputy Director, International Law Division, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Amin Kazak, University of Colorado at Denver and Director, Rocky Mountain Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
• Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa
• Gerald Steinberg, Bar Ilan University
• Haim Yavin, Israeli newscaster
• Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post

Diversity Matters:

• Bobby Seale, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
• James Foreman, former Executive Director of SNCC
• Thomas Begay, Navajo Code Talker
• Asma Gull Hasan, author, American Muslims: The New Generation
• John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
• Eric Cahn, Holocaust survivor
• Bill Hosokawa, journalist and author, Nisei and Out of the Frying Pan
• Donnie Betts, producer, Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days
• Randall Robinson, President, TransAfrica
• Luis Rosa, pardoned Puerto Rican nationalist
• J.E. Rash, President, Legacy International
• Arturo Lopez Levy, former Secretary, B'nai B'rith in Cuba
• Reza Aslan, author, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

The Arts:

• Charles Sherman, sculptor, whose, bronze of Golda Meir was acquired by the Center through the generosity of Dr. Morton and Toby Mower of Baltimore
• Djimon Hounsou, actor
• Roy Purcell, artist, whose print of Golda Meir was donated to the Center by Roz Duman
• Dianne Reeves, Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist
• Barbara Trent, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
• Wynton Marsalis, Grammy award
• Simon Bitton, filmmaker, who discussed her documentary on poet Mahmoud Darwich
• Tami Katz-Frieman, Art Curator, Israeli Forum of Museums
• Marilyn Lande, digital artist, who displayed her work on women
• Mary Redhouse, vocalist and instrumentalist
• Joe Nicastri, sculptor
• Dennis McNally, author, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
• David Edmonds, BBC and co-author, Wittgenstein's Poker
• Susanne Kaul, Bielefeld University, Germany

World Politics:

• Valentin Peschanski, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Thomas Gouttierre, Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha
• Olga Ruffins, Center for the Study of Africa and the Middle East (CEAMO), Havana, Cuba
• Peter Bridges, former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia
• James Mittleman, American University
• Mary Ann Casey, U.S. Ambassador
• Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
• Ved Nanda, University of Denver Law School
• Yi Sun, University of San Diego
• Kada Akacem, University of Algiers
• Thomas Stauffer, oil economist, formerly of Harvard University
• Mark Kurlansky, author, The Basque History of the World
• Stephen Kinzer, journalist and author, Crescent and Star: Turkey between Two Worlds
• Reza Ghods, author, Iran in the Twentieth Century
• Tahira Khan, formerly of the Woman’s Resource Center in Pakistan
• Meenakshi Rishi, Ohio Northern University

Domestic Issues:

• Andrei Markovitz, University of Michigan
• Barbara Perry, Sweet Briar College
• Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center
• Dave Dellinger, member of the Chicago Eight
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
• Hank Brown, former U.S. Senator
• Neal Richardson, attorney and author
• Spencer Crona, attorney and author
• Walter Gerash, attorney
• Michael Parenti, author and academic
• William Halter, Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration
• Wellington Webb, Mayor, City and County of Denver
• Sherman Finesilver, former Chief Judge, Federal District Court, Colorado
• Diana DeGette, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Mark Udall, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• John Temple, editor and publisher, Rocky Mountain News
• Dennis Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle General (Ret.) Merrill McPeak, Former Cheif of Staff, U.S. Air Force

Other Visitors:

• Elliott Gould, actor
• Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University Law School
• Naomi Wolf, author
• Dr. Ruth (Westheimer), therapist
• Tovah Feldshuh, actress