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Previous speakers

A few of the more than 300 speakers we have hosted over the years.
We host three speakers per season. Our next season (the 106th) will run from September 1,2025 to May 31, 2026.
Membership signup is from June 1, 2025 to September 1,2025.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:30 p.m.

Jamie Bowman: Attorney, author. “Bike Riding in Kabul”

Ms. Bowman is a born storyteller. For the past twenty years, she has worked as a legal consultant in some of the world’s most challenging environments. Getting roughed up by Islamic fundamentalists, the weekly “feline sex-fest” in Kyiv, and bribing Russian police to avoid jail in Moscow, are just a few of her exploits. “It was a great job! “

She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, and a member of the State Bar of California, she lives in Washington, D.C.

Thursday., October 30, 2025 7:30 p.m.

Eric Weiner: Award-winning journalist , author, world traveler.

“Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places (And a Few of the Happiest Ones Too)”

Eric views the world, historically and as a laboratory of good ideas. He has spent the past several years investigating golden ages, from ancient Athens to today’s Silicon Valley. These places produced a mother lode of good ideas

and bright minds — and they have much to teach us.

 

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