Tara Grove is the education editor at The New Press. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City.
Isabel Ostrer is a recent graduate of Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They both went to college to figure out how they could make the world a more humane place to live.
List of Contributors/Speech Locations
Anna Quindlen Grinnell College, 2011 (Grinnell, Iowa)
Wynton Marsalis Connecticut College, 2001 (New London, Connecticut)
Barbara Kingsolver Duke University, 2008 (Durham, North Carolina)
Marian Wright Edelman Muhlenberg College, 2008 (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Noam Chomsky American University of Beirut, 2013 (Lebanon)
Toni Morrison Rutgers University, 2011 (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Gloria Steinem Smith College, 2007 (Northampton, Massachusetts)
Tony Kushner Vassar College, 2002 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Kalamazoo College, 2009 (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Paul Farmer University of Delaware, 2013 (Newark, Delaware)
Martha Nussbaum Connecticut College, 2009 (New London, Connecticut)
Oliver Stone UCLA, 2009 (Los Angeles, California)
Paul Hawken University of Portland, 2009 (Portland, Oregon)
Isabel Wilkerson Bates College, 2014 (Lewiston, Maine)
Howard Zinn Spelman College, 2005 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Cecile Richards Barnard College, 2014 (New York, New York)
Theodore Shaw Wesleyan University, 2014 (Middletown, Connecticut)
Ursula K. Le Guin Mills College, 1983 (Oakland, California)