2013
Theodore B. Olson,
Former Solicitor General of the United States
2012
Patrick Leahy
United States Senator, Vermont (D)
2011
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard University
Founding and Executive Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
2010
Michael C. Dorf
Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
2009
John Payton
Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
2008
Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
2007
Neal Katyal
Saunders Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
(Currently serves as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States)
2006
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor, Harvard Business School
2005
Paul S. Grogan
President and CEO of the Boston Foundation
2004
Emily Rooney
Host, Executive Editor and Creator of Greater Boston and Beat the Press on WGBH-TV
2003
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Correspondent, New York Times
2002
Joe Klein
Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
2001
Tom Brokaw
Anchor and Managing Editor, "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw"
Author, The Greatest Generation, The Greatest Generation Speaks, and An Album of Memories
2000
Eileen McNamara
Pulitzer Prize Winning Boston Globe Columnist
1998
David Halberstam
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author
1997
James P. Carroll
Novelist
1996
Jonathan Kozol
Non-fiction Writer
1995
Warren Rudman
Former United States Senator from New Hampshire
1994
Carl Rowan
Nationally-syndicated Op-ed Columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times
Former Director of the U.S. Information Agency
1993
Mortimer "Mort" Zuckerman
Publisher and Owner of NY Daily News
Current Editor & Chief of U.S. News & World Report
Co-founder, Boston Properties, Inc.
1992
William Safire
Political Columnist, NY Times