DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. In 2020, she served as the executive producer for History Channel's six-hour, three-night miniseries event, "Washington", which delves into the lesser-known details of America's first president and shows the arc of his developments as a leader.
Laura Bush holds a degree in education and a master’s degree in library science. She taught in public schools in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, and worked as a public school librarian. In 1977, she married George W. Bush and in 2001 Mrs Bush became the First Lady of the United States.
George W. Bush served as 43rd president of the United States of America from 2001-2009. As commander in chief, President Bush worked to expand freedom, opportunity and security at home and abroad. Following his presidency, President Bush and Mrs. Bush founded the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, home to the George W. Bush Institute, a nonpartisan public policy and leadership development center that engages communities across the world by developing leaders, advancing policy, and taking action to solve today’s most pressing challenges.
Amal Clooney is a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights. She represents clients before international courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. In 2016 she and her husband, George, established the Clooney Foundation for Justice to advance justice through accountability for human rights abuses around the world.
George Clooney is recognized as much for his global humanitarian efforts as he is for his accomplishments in the entertainment industry. Clooney’s achievements as a performer and filmmaker have earned him two Academy Awards, five Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, four SAG awards, one BAFTA award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, an Emmy and four National Board of Review Awards.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. Since 2020 she has served as executive producer for the History Channel’s miniseries events Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, with more to come!
Jenna Bush Hager is the cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb and the founder of the Today book club, Read with Jenna. She is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times best seller Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, which she wrote after traveling to Latin America in 2006 as an intern with UNICEF. Ana's Story is based on the life of a 17-year-old single mother with HIV who struggles to shield her child from the life of abuse and neglect she left behind.
Julia Roberts has appeared in many of Hollywood’s most successful films, worked with the industry’s most esteemed directors, and her films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide. Roberts is known for her consistently captivating performances in numerous award winning films and most notably for her breakthrough performance in Pretty Woman and Academy Award® winning role in Erin Brockovich. Over the span of her career she has received three Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, a SAG award for Outstanding Performance and five People's Choice awards among many others.
Pete Souza was the chief official White House photographer for President Obama and an official White House photographer for President Reagan. Pete was the subject of the 2020 documentary The Way I See It, which gives an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at his perspective and work. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline, ABC’s 20/20, NBC Nightly News, Morning Joe, Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, All In with Chris Hayes, and Today.
If Malala Yousafzai has anything to do with it every girl in the world will have the opportunity to learn and lead. Her immediate focus is providing access to 130 million girls who have been denied the right to educa- tion. Through the work of Malala Fund, co-founded with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, this seemingly audacious goal is, in Malala’s words a matter of “ambition and intention.” What to do is then easy. As a recent Oxford graduate, Malala continues to be a catalyzing force in the fight against the ideologies that prohibit educational opportunities for women, globally.
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This year's HISTORYTalks is a daylong event featuring a diverse slate of talent and expertise from those who have helped shape history.
A photo journal of the HISTORYTalks: Leadership & Legacy event on February 29, 2020, in Carnegie Hall, New York City.
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