Organization
Sacramento Speakers Series
Comment on Facebook The Sacramento Speakers Series is a diverse community lecture series which provides a unique intellectual entertainment option for the citizens of the growing Greater Sacramento Area. The Series provides an open forum for the exchange of ideas, opinions, and perspectives as well as the enrichment of Sacramento community. Each season's speakers represent a wide variety of subjects ranging from world affairs, politics, business, and economics to the arts, entertainment, and the environment.
The Series is open to the public by subscription to the Series. The Series is for all tastes & ages and includes prices for every budget. Patrons of the Series have input in the speakers selected.
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Contact Info
Sacramento Speakers Series
3001 I Street
Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: (866) 773-2535 or (916) 388-1100 | Fax: (866) 773-3790 | Email | Official Website
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Upcoming Events
| 10/23/12 |
Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
October 23, 2012
Sanjay Gupta, M.D. is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, has medical training and public health policy experience that distinguishes his reporting on a range of medical and scientific topics including brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, HIV/AIDS, and other areas. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory School of Medicine.
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| 12/04/12 |
President Bill Clinton
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
December 4, 2012
Under the presidency of President William Jefferson Clinton, the US enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the US and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. He is currently the UN Special Envoy for Haiti and has written three best-selling...
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| 01/08/13 |
Thomas Friedman
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
January 8, 2013
Columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author, TV documentarian: these are a few of the hats worn by Thomas Friedman, an intellectual the man in the street can look to for straight talk about our increasingly complex world. The titles of a few of his books say much about him: his newest, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestsellers list; his earlier Hot...
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| 01/29/13 |
Michelle A. Rhee
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
January 29, 2013
Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, formed in response to the increasing demand for a better education system for all of our children, in every zip code. Before leading StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee was a Teach for America corpsmember in Baltimore; founded The New Teacher Project to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms by reforming hiring practices; and served as chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, where she brought the worst performing school district...
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| 02/27/13 |
Louise Leakey
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
February 27, 2013
Louise Leakey, paleontologist, conservationist, educator, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, is the third generation of the famous Leakey family to dig for humanity’s past in East Africa. She and her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, have made discoveries that may rewrite humanity’s evolutionary timeline: her 2007 find of H. habilis bones suggests that different species of pre-humans lived side-by-side at the same time for almost half of million years. Her...
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| 04/02/13 |
Robert Ballard
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
April 2, 2013
Robert Ballard is an underwater archaeologist, geophysicist, and educator. But he is best known for his amazing deep-sea discoveries: of the Titanic, the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown (while on a secret mission for the Navy, with the Titanic as his cover story) and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. He was in the first team of scientists to view the deep-sea vents, and has been on more than 120 deep-sea expeditions. He shares his enthusiasm for deep-sea exploration with 1.7 million students a...
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Current &
Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
| 10/23/12 |
Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
October 23, 2012
Sanjay Gupta, M.D. is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, has medical training and public health policy experience that distinguishes his reporting on a range of medical and scientific topics including brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, HIV/AIDS, and other areas. In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory School of Medicine.
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| 12/04/12 |
President Bill Clinton
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
December 4, 2012
Under the presidency of President William Jefferson Clinton, the US enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the US and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. He is currently the UN Special Envoy for Haiti and has written three best-selling...
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| 01/08/13 |
Thomas Friedman
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
January 8, 2013
Columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author, TV documentarian: these are a few of the hats worn by Thomas Friedman, an intellectual the man in the street can look to for straight talk about our increasingly complex world. The titles of a few of his books say much about him: his newest, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestsellers list; his earlier Hot...
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| 01/29/13 |
Michelle A. Rhee
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
January 29, 2013
Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, formed in response to the increasing demand for a better education system for all of our children, in every zip code. Before leading StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee was a Teach for America corpsmember in Baltimore; founded The New Teacher Project to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms by reforming hiring practices; and served as chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, where she brought the worst performing school district...
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| 02/27/13 |
Louise Leakey
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
February 27, 2013
Louise Leakey, paleontologist, conservationist, educator, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, is the third generation of the famous Leakey family to dig for humanity’s past in East Africa. She and her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, have made discoveries that may rewrite humanity’s evolutionary timeline: her 2007 find of H. habilis bones suggests that different species of pre-humans lived side-by-side at the same time for almost half of million years. Her...
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| 04/02/13 |
Robert Ballard
Community Center Theater
Presented by Sacramento Speakers Series
and Sacramento Convention Center Complex
at Community Center Theater
April 2, 2013
Robert Ballard is an underwater archaeologist, geophysicist, and educator. But he is best known for his amazing deep-sea discoveries: of the Titanic, the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown (while on a secret mission for the Navy, with the Titanic as his cover story) and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. He was in the first team of scientists to view the deep-sea vents, and has been on more than 120 deep-sea expeditions. He shares his enthusiasm for deep-sea exploration with 1.7 million students a...
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Event Name: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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Beth Henderson
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Dec 05, 2008
