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