Davenport Teas

 

       


2020-2021 Teas

  • Dr. Arthur Ko - epidemiologist and Davenport Fellow
  • Asha Rangappa - CNN commentator and former FBI agent
  • Hyppolite Ntgurirwa - Rwandan artist and peace activist and Yale World Fellow
  • Nicholas Christakis - sociologist and infectious disease scholar
  • Arthur Brooks - American Enterprise Institute & Harvard University
  • Dr. John Battles - University of California at Berkeley Battles Lab
  • Kevin Alvarez - New Haven Mayor’s office
  • Marlon James - novelist
  • Gerald Torres - Native American lawyer

2019-2020 Teas

  • Susan Burton & Romailyn Ralston - Women and Families after Incarceration
  • Adam Serwer - Public Memory and the Age of Trump
  • Megan Phelps-Roper - Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
  • Daniel Markovits - The Meritocracy Trap
  • Elaine Sheldon - Recovery Boys
  • George Lombard - A Big-League Journey: Playing and Coaching in the Majors
  • Dr. Katherine Campbell - The national crisis of maternal morbidity and mortality

2018-2019

  • Carter Simonds - Women in Finance
  • Maria Konnikova - Cards, Cons, and Other Shenanigans
  • Nathaniel Persily - Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
  • Adam Van Doren - The Stones at Yale
  • Min Jin Lee - On her new book, Pachinko
  • David Frum - Why a Liberal State Needs Strong Immigration Enforcement
  • Carl Zimmer - On his new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
  • Suzanne Nossell - Whose Freedom, Whose Speech? The Future of Campus Free Speech
  • Tommy Orange - On his new book, There, There: A Novel
  • Kaari Pitkin - The Radio Renaissance: Podcasts, Storytelling and Audio Documentaries
  • Efren Olivares - The Family Separation Crisis on the Border 
  • Governor Gary Locke - From Yale, to the Cabinet, to China and Beyond
  • Joe Tessitore - Ringmaster: Monday Night Football and Sports Entertainment in American Life
  • Pavan Sukhdev - Food’s Ferocious Footprint: The True Cost of Cheap Food
  • Njeri Thande - Health Stories: The Crisis of Unjust Healthcare in America
  • Emily Bazelon - On her new book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Proseution and End Mass Incarceration 
  • Don Lemon - Cable News in the Trump Era

2017-2018

  • Conchita Cruz - Advocating for Refugees
  • James Forman Jr. - On his new book, Locking Up Our Own
  • Paul Kennedy - Avoiding the Thucydides Trap
  • Erin Morley - Met Opera singer
  • Chris Keyser - Television writer
  • Hirokazu Yoshikawa - Effects of Unauthorized Status on Child and Youth Development
  • Leyla McCalla - Hatian-American musician based in New Orleans
  • Jennifer Egan - On her latest novel, Manhattan Beach
  • Linda Greenhouse - On her new book, Just a Journalist: on the press, life, and spaces in between
  • Ambassador Daniel Fried  - The American Century and the Trump Challenge
  • Y2Y - Young Adults Uniting to End Homelessness
  • Reihan Salam - Executive Editor of the National Review

2016-2017

  • Walter Robinson
  • Roy Austin
  • Sandy Alderson
  • Vincent & Elizabeth DaVita
  • Stephen Bright
  • Glen Miranker
  • Jeffrey Taylor
  • Theresa Betancourt
  • Lucas Guttentag
  • Marina Picciotto
  • Hamed Sinno
  • Rebecca Gomperts
  • Robert Malley
  • Rashid Khalidi
  • Charlotte Mararv
  • Albert Laguna
  • Daniel Ziv
  • Thierry Cruvellier
  • Stanley Crouch
  • Roseanne Cash
  • Kang-I Chang
  • Jorge Rausch
  • Ben Zimmer
  • Jaap Schroeder
  • Jay Gitlin & Adam Van Doren
  • Alan Cumming

2015-2016

  • Adam VanDoren
  • Alicia Lieberman
  • Ellen Bravo
  • J. Cecilia Cardenas-Navia
  • Carlos Dada
  • Catherine Price
  • Dave Russakoff
  • David Coffin
  • David Quammen
  • Eddie Hartman
  • Emma Stanton
  • Frederick John Lamp
  • Jordan Goldberg
  • John Shelton Reed
  • John Negroponte
  • Julia Marton-LeFevre
  • J. Kehaulani Kauanui
  • Lucas Sin
  • Matt Kenner
  • Noah Warren
  • Paul Butler
  • Pavan Sukhdev
  • Robert Massie
  • Rogerio Souza-Edinho Gerber
  • Timothy Jenkins
  • Zuhra Halimova

2014-2015

  • Abby Ginzberg
  • Serap Aksoy
  • Daniel Headrick
  • Ann Masten
  • Anya Kamenetz
  • Ari Shavit
  • Alvin Trillin
  • Mike Curtin
  • Henry ‘Sam” Chauncey
  • Thomas Strong
  • Katarzyna Chawarska
  • Philip Deloria
  • Donald P. Gregg
  • Gregory Fleming
  • Jennifer Newman
  • Laura Wexler
  • John Negroponte
  • Louisa Lombard
  • Margaret Hamburg
  • Nandita Das
  • Stephanie O’Malley
  • Pascal Lamy
  • Paul Kennedy
  • Sarah Rosen
  • Stephen Schwarzman
  • Daniel Zalewski