High School Lecture Series

Since 2006, the following authors have spoken at the SF Waldorf High School:

• Benjamin Ajak, co-author of They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
• Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York; Destiny Disrupted
• Reza Aslan, author of No god But God: the Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam; How to Stop A Cosmic War
• Melba Pattillo Beals, author of Warriors Don't Cry:  A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
• Mark Brecke, filmmaker, photographer, Darfur Darfur
• Claire Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author of The Pluto Files: the Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
• Kathy Evans, poet, author of Imagination Comes to Breakfast
• Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger, editors of Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries From World War I to Iraq
• Tim Flannery, Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, and author of The Weather Makers
• Ed Kashi, photographer, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 years of Oil in the Niger Delta and Aging in America
• Greg Mortenson, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time
• Daniel Pink, author of Drive:  The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us in conversation with Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum
• Robert Pinsky, poet and translator of The Inferno of Dante
• Michael Shellenberger, coauthor of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
• Joseph Stiglitz, Noble Prize-winning economist and author of Making Globalization Work
• Rick Wartzman, author of Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath