Understanding current events during unprecedented times can be difficult at best. Your team and audience members are likely doing their best to stay informed, but, watching the news and reading online information often provides just a piece of the story. For in-depth analysis and meaningful conversations, along with debates that cross the political aisle, bringing in an expert Democrat speaker may be the best solution. Browse WSB’s selection of speakers who can provide deep reflection and perspective from the left, today. Available for in-person or virtual events.
Senior Political Commentator, CNN, and Host, The Axe Files; Professor of Practice, Arizona State University; Founding Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics; Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama (2009-2011)
Founder, Crooked Media, Host of Pod Save America; Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama (2009-2013)
American Political Strategist; ABC News Contributor, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, and New York Times Best-selling Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, The Washington Post and Political Analyst, MSNBC
American Historian and Best-Selling Author; Presidential Historian, CNN; Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University
U.S. Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011), Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton (1994-1997), Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1993-1994) and Co-founder, Panetta Institute for Public Policy
Former U.S. Senator, Olympian, NBA Hall of Famer and Best-Selling Author
U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-2013), Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist and Professor, Stanford University
20th President of the University of California (2013-2020); Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013); Governor of Arizona (2003-2009)
Senior Political Contributor, CNN; Syndicated Political Talk Show Host, Columnist and Best-Selling Author
Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010); President Emeritus, University of North Carolina; Former White House Chief of Staff and Former Administrator, Small Business Administration
U.S. Senator (1981-2011) and Senior Counsel, Arnold and Porter
NBC News and MSNBC National Security Analyst and Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense (2011-2013) and Chief of Staff to the Director of the CIA (2009-2011)
CEO, Turner Conoly Group; Senior Biden Harris Campaign Official; Civil Rights and Political Strategist
U.S. House of Representatives (1995-2011); Co-Founder, One Mind for Research and Founder, The Kennedy Forum on Community Mental Health
Chief of Global Business Development, Zoetic Global; U.S. House of Representatives (2003-2023)
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