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| Year | Lecturer | Title |
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| 2023 | Derek Luke | Celebrated Hollywood Actor |
| 2022 | Hon. Fernando Ferrer | CUNY Trustee Bronx; Borough President (1987-2001) |
| 2021 | Letitia James | New York State Attorney General |
| 2020 | Lecture Postponed | |
| Years | Lecturer | Title |
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| 2019 | Alessandra Biaggi | The 50th Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture: New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi. |
| 2018 | John King | The 49th Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture: The former secretary of education and nationally renowned advocate for educational equity, John B. King Jr. |
| 2017 | Adriano Espaillat | The 48th Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture: U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat New York’s 13th congressional District |
| 2016 | Ban KI-moon |
Secretary-General, United Nations |
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2015 |
Francisco Marmolejo |
Lead Tertiary Education Specialist, World Bank
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2014 |
Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale |
Director of the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce |
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2013 |
Dr. Arthur E. Levine |
Former President of Columbia University Teachers College; President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship |
| 2012 | Esmeralda Santiago | Author of critically acclaimed books including When I Was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, and Conquistadora |
| 2011 | Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández | First Lady of the Dominican Republic |
| 2010 | Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. | Chairman, John L. Loeb, Jr. Associates, Inc., Investment Counselors; Former United States Ambassador to Denmark |
| Year | Lecturer |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Jill Abramson |
Managing Editor, New York Times |
| 2008 | Jonah Triebwasser |
Educator, Lawyer, and Actor |
| 2007 | Richard N. Haass | President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| 2006 | Jody Williams |
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1997); Founding Coordinator, International Campaign to Ban Landmines |
| 2005 | Fritz Stern | University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University |
| 2004 | Michael Beschloss |
Presidential Historian & Author |
| 2003 | Herbert H. Lehman Symposium |
Several Lehman family members participated in the event |
| 2002 | Raúl Yzaguirre |
President & CEO, National Council of La Raza |
| 2001 | James M. McPherson |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University |
| 2000 | George J. Mitchell |
U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland; Former US Senator (D-ME) |
| Year | lecturer |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | James Appleberry |
President, The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) |
| 1998 | Bill Richardson |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Former U.S. Congressman |
| 1997 | Geraldine A. Ferraro |
United States Ambassador, to the United Nations, on Human Rights; First Female Vice Presidential Candidate; Former U.S. Congresswoman (D-NY) |
| 1996 | Sir Brian Urquhart | Former United Nations Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs |
| 1995 | Norma Cantú |
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education |
| 1994 | Albert Gore, Sr. |
Former U.S. Senator (D-TN) |
| 1993 | Meyer Weinberg | Professor in the School of Education and Professor in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; First Chair of Multicultural Education at California State University, Long Beach |
| 1992 | Maristella De Panizza Lorch | Founder and President of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University |
| 1991 | William Wayne Justice | U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Texas |
| 1990 | Vartan Gregorian | President, Brown University |
| Year | Lecturer |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Irving Howe |
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York |
| 1988 | Robert F. Wagner, Jr. |
President, New York City Board of Education |
| 1987 | Albert Shanker | President of the American Federation of Teachers; Founder and Former President of the United Federation of Teachers; and a Vice President of the AFL-CIO |
| 1986 | Reverend M. William Howard, Jr. |
Executive Director, Black Council of the Reformed Church in America; Former President, National Council of Churches |
| 1985 | John V. Lindsay |
Former Mayor of the City of New York; Former U.S. Congressman; Former Executive Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States |
| 1984 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Albert Schweitzer Professor In the Humanities, The City University of New York |
| 1983 | Jonathan B. Bingham |
Former U.S. Congressman (D-NY) |
| 1982 | Reverend Timothy S. Healy, S.J. | President of Georgetown University |
| 1981 | A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| 1980 | Kitty Carlisle Hart | Chair, New York State Council on the Arts |
| Year | Lectuer |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Joseph Papp |
Theatrical Producer & Director, The Pubic Theater. Also founded the New York Shakespeare Festival |
| 1978 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
U.S. Senator (D-NY) |
| 1977 | George McGovern |
U.S. Senator (D-SD) and former Democratic Presidential Candidate |
| 1976 | Tom Wicker | Associate Editor, New York Times |
| 1975 | Abba Eban |
Former Foreign Minister of Israel |
| 1974 | Joseph P. Lash |
Biographer of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt |
| 1973 | Barbara Ward Jackson |
Schweitzer Professor of International Economics, Columbia University |
| 1972 | James MacGregor Burns |
Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government, Williams College |
| 1971 | Stuart Symington | U.S. Senator (D-MO) |
| 1970 | Ramsey Clark |
Former Attorney General of the United States |