Lisa Kirchenbauer, St. John’s parishioner and an accomplished wealth manager, will speak on aligning values and money in a talk sponsored by the Care of Creation ministry. Some investors believe that there are trade-offs to Environmental, Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing or think that it’s just a fad. But the idea of a…
Pierre Thomas, Chief Justice Correspondent for ABC News, speaks about his work for the network, which he joined in November 2000. Thomas reports for “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and all platforms including ABC News Radio and digital.…
Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker, will speak on his 2020 biography of President Biden. Osnos won the National Book Award for his most recent book, Age of Ambition, about economic, political, and social change in China, and he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting at the Chicago Tribune.…
Kim Sajet, the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, will speak about the gallery. Sajet is known for a cross-disciplinary approach that merges painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video, and performance, to make the past personal and deepen our understanding of how people have…
Sean Wilentz, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. Professor Wilentz studies U.S. political and social history. His book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.…
Tim Naftali is the director of the undergraduate public policy major and a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service at New York University and previously served as founding director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Naftali has published a number of books and articles on national security…
President Reagan’s former Chief of Staff and the current publisher of The Washington Post will speak on the Reagan presidency. Ryan is the author of Wine in the White House, published by the White House Historical Association in 2020; editor of Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator, published by Harper Collins in 1995, and R…
Beverly Gage, Professor of 20th-century American history at Yale, will talk about her newest book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Gage is also author of The Day Wall Street Exploded, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wa…
Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and an expert on Russia, will speak about the Russia-Ukraine war. Dougherty is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies; a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.; and a member of the Wilson…
Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association by St. John's Church, Lafayette SquareOleh St. John's Church, Lafayette Square
Jake Flack, Associate Director for Museum Education, Ford’s Theatre, will talk about the history of the theater, Lincoln’s assassination, and the current programming at the theater.Oleh St. John's Church, Lafayette Square
Mike Molina, Head of School at the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys in Southeast Washington, will update St. John’s on the resilience of the school during the pandemic, the school’s plans for the academic year, and highlights of the school’s impact through its very first graduating class—kindergarteners from the school’s inception who complete…
Susan Behrends Frank, Curator, The Phillips Collection, speaks on the recent exhibit of paintings from Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period.Oleh St. John's Church, Lafayette Square