Leadership Through Mentorship
2020-2021 Leadership Visitors
Gen. James Mattis, US Marine Corps (Ret.)
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense (January 2017-January 2019); Davies Family Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Author, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Alison Mariella Désir
Founder of Harlem Run, Run 4 All Women, and Global Womxn Run Collective; Activist; Endurance Athlete; Mental Health Advocate
Lolita Buckner Inniss ’83
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University Distinguished Professor, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and Professor of Law, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University; Author, “The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson”
Amb. Samantha Power
Former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights, Harvard Law School
Anand Giridharadas
Editor-at-Large, TIME; Author New York Times Best Seller “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World”; MSNBC Political Analyst; Founder of the Newsletter, The.Ink
Arne Duncan
Former U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-2015); Co-Founder, Chicago CRED — Create Real Economic Destiny; Managing Partner, Emerson Collective
Michael D. Tubbs
Former Mayor of the City of Stockton, California
David Ignatius
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Washington Post
Yuval Levin
Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies and the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute; Founding and Current Editor-in-Chief of National Affairs; Senior Editor of The New Atlantis; Contributing Editor to National Review; Author, “A Time To Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream.”