American Bar Association President Mary Smith announced the launch of the ABA Presidential Speaker Series, a collection of diverse virtual conversations with globally recognized figures. The online series, which aims to elevate discourse by spotlighting the trailblazers and thinkers shaping our collective future, kicks off on Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. ET, with subsequent episodes releasing Thursdays at the same time.
The first four installments will be free to ABA members and the public. Thereafter, the Presidential Speaker Series will be free for ABA members but will include a charge for non-members.
• Thursday, Oct. 5
Ivo H. Daalder, chief executive officer of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, interviewed by Ertharin Cousin, CEO and founder, Food Systems for the Future and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture.
• Thursday, Oct. 12
Dolores Huerta, civil rights icon, American labor leader and activist. a co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association. FHuerta will be interviewed by the Rev. Miguel Bustos, the Episcopal Church’s manager for Racial Reconciliation and Justice for the U.S. and Latin America and former executive director of the California Latino Civil Rights Network. Co-sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Association.
• Thursday, Oct. 19
Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter and director of the new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” along with Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, principal chief of the Osage Nation, interviewed by ABA President Mary Smith and Jimmy K. Goodman, president, American Bar Foundation, and attorney, Crowe & Dunlevy.
• Thursday, Nov. 2
Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, with a special panel of Native American women “firsts” including:
- Abby Abinanti (Yurok), chief judge, Yurok Tribe and First Native American woman to pass the California Bar Exam
- Kimberly Teehee (Cherokee), first delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation and former senior policy adviser for Native American affairs in the White House
- Stacy Leeds (Cherokee), Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, and first Native American woman to serve as a law school dean.
Guests will be interviewed by Makalika Naholowa’a, executive director, Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. and president, National Native American Bar Association (and first Native Hawaiian in this role). Co-sponsored by the National Native American Bar Association.
The program will be followed by the release of the study by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession in collaboration with the National Native American Bar Association tentatively titled “Excluded and Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Towards Equity.” Presented by Firekeepers Circle Co-chairs Jin Hwang, past president of the National Asian and Pacific American Bar Association, and Linda Benally, past president of the National Native American Bar Association.
• Thursday, Nov. 9
“A.I. – The New Frontier” featuring a panel of special advisers to the ABA Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence. Panelists include:
- Ivan Fong, former general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Medtronic
- Daniel Ho, member of the National AI Advisory Committee, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- Michelle Lee, former undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and CEO and founder of Obsidian Strategies
- Trooper Sanders, member of the National AI Advisory Committee and CEO of Benefits Data Trust
- Miriam Vogel, chair of the National AI Advisory Committee and president and CEO of EqualAI
- Seth Waxman, former U.S. solicitor general and partner, WilmerHale.
Guests will be Interviewed by Lucy Thomson, chair, ABA Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence.
• Thursday, Dec. 7
The ABA Task Force for American Democracy co-chairs Jeh Charles Johnson, former secretary of Homeland Security, and former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, for a conversation with David French, New York Times columnist.
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