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2021
| Jul 21 | William Tong, Attorney General, State of Connecticut | |
| Jul 14 | Dana Gunders, Executive Director, ReFED; “Rethinking Our Food System: How Wasting Less is Critical to Sustainability” | |
| Jul 7 | Mark Nunan, Ph.D., Retired as VP of COS, Inc., a private consulting firm providing business and economic development services to companies/governments in North America and Europe; “Fiorello La Guardia: Scourge of the Old Order, Inventor of the New” | |
| Jun 30 | Nabeel Abboud-Ashkar, Executive Director, Polyphony Education; “Musical Bridges: Bringing Together Arab and Jewish Communities in Israel” | |
| Jun 23 | Jim Campbell, Author, Radio Host of Business Talk with Jim Campbell, on his just published book; “Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History” | |
| Jun 16 | John Hibbing, Ph.D., Foundation Regent University Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, on his book ;“The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era” | |
| Jun 9 | Rob MacKay, Director of Public Relations, Marketing & Tourism, Queens Economic Development Corporation, “The Historic Houses of Queens” | |
| Jun 2 | Laurence Kantor, Ph.D., Economist; “The Pandemic Recession and Recovery: Implications for the Economy and Financial Markets” | |
| May 26 | David Pogue, Technology and science writer and TV presenter; Emmy winning correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning; author of the Crowdwise column in the New York Times Smarter Living section; “How to Prepare for Climate Change” | |
| May 19 | Dr. Michael Parry, Head of Infectious Diseases at Stamford Hospital: “Covid-19 and Its Variants” | |
| May 12 | Carl Steinitz, Ph.D., Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, author of Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes; “GEODESIGN – Toward A Long Term Strategy for Local – to – Global Conservation and Development … and how it can be designed” | |
| May 5 | Matthew West, Former Projects and Logistics Coordinator of operations of Doctors Without Borders in many countries, and currently a public speaker and donor liaison as well as a facilitator for in house DWB management trainings; “Doctors Without Borders – A Voice from the Field” | |
| Apr 28 | The Right Honorable Jesse Norman, Ph.D., Conservative Member of Parliament, Government Minister: Financial Secretary to the Treasury, writer and academic, Ph.D. in philosophy, University College London; “The Re-emergence of Global Britain: Brexit, Covid and Beyond” | |
| Apr 21 | Janice Nimura, author, on her new book The Doctors Blackwell: “The Doctors Blackwell: How two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – and Women to Medicine” | |
| Apr 14 | Khalil Habib, PhD, Associate Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College, Michigan; “Progressivism and its Philosophical Roots (Thinking Critically About Political Life)” | |
| Apr 7 | Thomas Dyja, on his just published book “New York, New York, New York, Four Decades of Excess, Success, and Transformation,” (co-sponsored with Greenwich Library in cooperation with Diane’s Books) | |
| Mar 31 | Senator Richard Blumenthal, Second term US Senator from Connecticut; “Report from Washington” Emerging Opportunities: The Biden Administration and a Post-Pandemic World” | |
| Mar 24 | Captain Jay Dirnberger; “Dedication to Duty: Recollections of a Vietnam Veteran Huey Helicopter Pilot” | |
| Mar 17 | Mark Nunan, Ph.D., Retired as VP of COS, Inc., a private consulting firm providing business and economic development services to companies/governments; Robert Moses, Master Builder; Political Master of New York | |
| Mar 10 | John Celock, Media consultant, journalist and author, President of Celock Media Group; “How Young Elected Officials are Impacting the US” | |
| Mar 3 | Bill Diamond, CEO of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute, a not-for-profit whose mission is to explore, understand and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe: “Seeking Life in the Cosmos – Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe and What it Means for Humankind” | |
| Feb 24 | Barry Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Classics and History, Cornell University: “How to Stay Free Under an Empire: Lessons from Imperial Rome” |
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| Feb 17 | Congressman Jim Himes, “A Conversation with US Representative Jim Himes about the new Congress and Biden Administration” | |
| Feb 10 | Steve Ujifusa, Author on his book Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship | |
| Feb 3 | Flemming Heilman, author, philanthropist and international business executive on his memoir, The Unacceptable Face, a 21st century story of an itinerant career under apartheid, European socialism and American capitalism: “Capitalism, Socialism, and National and Corporate Politics” | |
| Jan 27 | Dr. John Hughes, MD, Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Attending Physician, West Haven VA Healthcare System, and Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics: “The Moral Imperative to Say No: The Inevitable Link Between Equity and Rationing” | |
| Jan 20 | Kai Harada, sound engineer for theatrical productions: “What Do All Those Buttons Do? A Sound Designer’s Journey on Broadway” | |
| Jan 13 | Matthew Ritter, Prospective Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Connecticut: “Issues facing the 2021 CT Legislative Assembly” | |
| Jan 6 | Michael Mason, Chair, Board of Estimate & Taxation (BET), Greenwich: “Budget Challenges for the Town of Greenwich – Fiscal Year 2022” | |