Connecticut Forum Panelists
More than 400 world-renowned panelists have had their say about hundreds of provocative issues at Connecticut Forum evenings, which are live, unscripted and completely unpredictable.
- Adam Savage
- Aisha Tyler
- Al Franken
- Al Jean
- Alan Alda
- Alan Keyes
- Albert Shanker
- Alec Baldwin
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Alice Waters
- Alison Stewart
- Allison Russell
- Amy Tan
- Amy Webb
- Andrew Cuomo
- Andrew Solomon
- Andrew Sullivan
- Andy Rooney
- Anita Hill
- Anjali Kumar
- Ann Coulter
- Ann Lewis
- Anna Quindlen
- Anne Applebaum
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Anthony Bourdain
- Anthony Leiserowitz
- Antonio Villaraigosa
- Arianna Huffington
- Arne Duncan
- Art Buchwald
- Arthur Ashe
- Arthur Caplan
- Arthur Miller
- Ashley Judd
- Atul Gawande
- Audie Cornish
- Azar Nafisi
- Baratunde Thurston
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Ben Bradlee
- Ben Wattenberg
- Benazir Bhutto
- Bernard Kalb
- Betty Shabazz
- Beverly Sills
- Bill Cosby
- Bill Flanagan
- Bill Moyers
- Bill Russell
- Bill T. Jones
- Bill Taylor
- Billie Jean King
- Bishop Gene Robinson
- Bo Jackson
- Bob Arnot
- Bob Beckel
- Bob Edwards
- Bob Englehart
- Bob Ryan
- Bob Saget
- Bob Weir
- Bob Woodward
- Bonnie Steinbock
- Brandon Stanton
- Brian Skerry
- Brooke Gladstone
- Bucky Dent
- Calvin Sims
- Calvin Trillin
- Carlton Fisk
- Carrie Brownstein
- Cathy Park Hong
- Cecile Richards
- Charles Blow
- Charles Ogletree
- Charlie Rose
- Cheryl Strayed
- Chion Wolf
- Chris Wallace
- Chris Webber
- Christopher Buckley
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Janney
- Chuck D
- Chuck Klosterman
- Clark Kent Ervin
- Colin Cowherd
- Colin McEnroe
- Colson Whitehead
- Connie Schultz
- Cornel West
- Craig Newmark
- D.L. Hughley
- Dacher Keltner
- Dan Esty
- Dan Quayle
- Dan Savage
- Danah Boyd
- Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket
- Danny Glover
- Danny Meyer
- Daphne Koller
- Daryl Gates
- Dave Eggers
- David Brooks
- David Chang
- David Fahrenthold
- David Gergen
- David Halberstam
- David Ignatius
- David Javerbaum
- David Kessler
- David Kong
- David McCullough
- David Simon
- Davis Guggenheim
- Deborah Gist
- Deborah Norville
- Derek Humphry
- Diana Nyad
- Dick Cavett
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Douglas Brinkley
- Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- Duff Goldman
- E.O. Wilson
- Ed Gordon
- Eddie Davis
- Edward Asner
- Edward James Olmos
- Edwin Meese III
- Eileen Kraus
- Eli Newberger
- Elie Wiesel
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ellen Goodman
- Erin Brockovich
- Esther Perel
- Evan Osnos
- Ezra Klein
- Fareed Zakaria
- Father Tom Hartman
- Faye Wattleton
- Flip Wilson
- Florence Henderson
- Forrest Sawyer
- Francis Fukuyama
- Frank Deford
- Frank McCourt
- Frank Rich
- Fred Armisen
- Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
- Gabrielle Hamilton
- Gail Simmons
- Gary Wendt
- Gene Wilder
- General John F. Kelly
- Geno Auriemma
- Geoffrey Canada
- Geoffrey Fieger
- George McGovern
- George Mitchell
- Gerry Spence
- Gina Barreca
- Gina Kolata
- Gina McCarthy
- Glenda Hatchett
- Gloria Steinem
- Gordon Parks
- Gwen Ifill
- Hank Schwartz
- Harry Shearer
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Heather MacDonald
- Henry Fernandez
- Henry Kissinger
- Henry Winkler
- Hodding Carter
- Howard Dean
- Howard Gardner
- Hrishikesh Hirway
- Hugh Hewitt
- Irshad Manji
- Jack Kemp
- Jack Trout
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Jacques Pépin
- James Carville
- James Stavridis
- Jamila Wideman
- Jane & Michael Stern
- Jane Alexander
- Jaron Lanier
- Jason Alexander
- Jason Reitman
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Jean-Michel Cousteau
- Jeanne White
- Jeff Greenfield
- Jeff Tweedy
- Jeffrey Brown
- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
- Jelani Cobb
- Jen Weiner
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Jessica Jackley
- Jessica Williams
- Jill Lepore
- Jimmy Rogers
- Jimmy Wales
- Joan Borysenko
- Joan Rivers
- Jody Williams
- Joe Marshall
- Joe Queenan
- Joel Klein
- John Dankosky
- John Forté
- John Hodgman
- John Irving
- John Legend
- John Moe
- John Naisbitt
- John Read
- John Rosemond
- John Sununu
- Joi Ito
- Jon Batiste
- Jon Meacham
- Jon Schnur
- Jonah Lehrer
- Jonathan Capehart
- Jonathan Franzen
- Jonathan Kozol
- Jonathan Zittrain
- José Andrés
- Jose Antonio Vargas
- Joseph Califano
- Joseph Ellis
- Joy Reid
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Joycelyn Elders
- Juan Enriquez
- Juan Williams
- Judy Jarvis
- Julia Gillard
- Julian Bond
- Julian Castro
- Julie Snyder
- Julie Taymor
- Karl Rove
- Kate Crawford
- Katharine Graham
- Katty Kay
- Kay Redfield Jamison
- Ken Burns
- Kevin Phillips
- Kevin Roose
- Kim Polese
- Kimberley Martin
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kyle Maynard
- Lani Guinier
- Larry Brilliant
- Larry Kramer
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson
- Laura Ingraham
- Lauren Groff
- Laurie Santos
- Leonard Lopate
- Lesley Stahl
- Lily Eskelsen
- Linda Cohn
- Linda Ellerbee
- Lisa Genova
- Lisa Sowle Cahill
- Liz Cheney
- Loretta Lynch
- Louise Leakey
- Lucy Nalpathanchil
- Lyle Lovett
- Lynsey Addario
- M.T. Winter
- Majora Carter
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Manning Marable
- Marc Maron
- Marc Rubera
- Marcus Samuelsson
- Margaret Carlson
- Margaret Farley
- Margaret Warner
- Mario Batali
- Mario Cuomo
- Martina Navratilova
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- Mary Fisher
- Mary Hynes
- Mary Matalin
- Matthew Dowd
- Melissa Harris-Perry
- Merle & Marshall Goldman
- Mia Farrow
- Michael Bloomberg
- Michael Gerson
- Michael Kinsley
- Michael Moore
- Michael Pollan
- Michel Martin
- Michele Norris
- Michelle Bernard
- Michelle Obama
- Michelle Shinsecki
- Mike Francesa
- Mike McCurry
- Miranda July
- Mitch Hurwitz
- Mo Rocca
- Molly Ivins
- Morgan Tuck
- Morley Safer
- Morris Dees
- Mort Sahl
- Nadine Strossen
- Nancy Giles
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Willenson
- Neri Oxman
- Newt Gingrich
- Nicholas Kristof
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Nicholas Payton
- Nicholas Thompson
- Nick Offerman
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Nile Rodgers
- Nita Farahany
- Norah O`Donnell
- Norman Schwarzkopf
- Oliver North
- Oliver Sacks
- Omar Wasow
- Oscar Arias
- P.J. O'Rourke
- Pat Buchanan
- Patti Smith
- Paul Bloom
- Paul Nicklen
- Peggy Noonan
- Pete Hamill
- Pete Souza
- Peter Sagal
- Peter Salgo
- Phil Donahue
- Priya Krishna
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
- Rabbi Marc Gellman
- Ralph Nader
- Ralph Reed
- Randal Pinkett
- Randy Cohen
- Ray Suarez
- Rebecca Lobo
- Rev Peter Gomes
- Rev. James Forbes, Jr.
- Reza Aslan
- Rhiannon Giddens
- Richard Armitage
- Richard Holbrooke
- Richard Perle
- Rick Pitino
- Rita Braver
- Rob Bartlett
- Rob Reiner
- Robert Ballard
- Robert Gallo
- Robert Klein
- Robert Reich
- Robin Roberts
- Robin Wright
- Rod Paige
- Roland Fryer
- Ron Brown
- Ron Compton
- Ronan Farrow
- Rory Kennedy
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Roxane Gay
- Ruth Reichl
- Sallie Krawcheck
- Salman Rushdie
- Sam Donaldson
- Sam Sanders
- Sam Sifton
- Samantha Bee
- Samantha Power
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
- Sarah Brady
- Sarah Koenig
- Senator Christopher Dodd
- Seth Meyers
- Shepard Smith Jr.
- Sherry Turkle
- Sherwin Nuland
- Sheryl WuDunn
- Soledad O'Brien
- Spike Lee
- Stacy Schiff
- Stanley Crouch
- Stephan Paternot
- Stephen Carter
- Stephen F. Hayes
- Stephen Shapiro
- Sterling Sharpe
- Steve Roberts
- Steven Pinker
- Story Musgrave
- Stuart Varney
- Studs Terkel
- Sue Bird
- Suleika Jaouad
- Susan Butcher
- Susan Cain
- Susan Campbell
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
- Sylvia Earle
- Tedy Bruschi
- Temple Grandin
- Thelma Golden
- Thomas Friedman
- Thomas Moore
- Tig Notaro
- Tim Gunn
- Tim Long
- Tim Robbins
- Tim Shriver
- Timothy Ferris
- Tina Brown
- Todd Krizelman
- Tom Colicchio
- Tom Ridge
- Tom Whittaker
- Toni Morrison
- Tony Blankley
- Tony Kushner
- Tony Snow
- Tracy K. Smith
- Trey Anastasio
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
- Vince Gilligan
- Vincent Ferrandino
- Virginia Heffernan
- Walter Cronkite
- Walter Isaacson
- Wendy Kopp
- Werner Pfeiffer
- Wes Moore
- Wesley Morris
- Will Allen
- Will Miller
- Willard Gaylin
- William Bennett
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- William Gray III
- William Magee
- William Pollack
- William Proxmire
- William Rhoden
- Yamiche Alcindor
- Yeardley Smith
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Zbigniew Brzezinski