Past Speakers

Media Strategist Ryan Holiday Talks Peter Thiel, Gawker and the First Amendment at NPC Headliners Book Event

March 15, 2018

Writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday’s latest book, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, tells the inside (and bizarre) true story of Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel’s secret - and ultimately successful - plot to destroy Gawker Media. Holiday will…

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NPC Headliners Luncheon with U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

March 15, 2018

Livestream will begin 3/15 at 1:00pm ET. From the speech he gave on the Senate floor rebuking President Trump’s repeated attacks on the media back in January, to his op-ed in The Washington Post criticizing his colleagues in Congress over their failure to pass DACA legislation earlier this…

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NPC Headliners Film Screening: Christy Turlington Burns, "Giving Birth in America"

March 8, 2018

Christy Turlington Burns, founder & CEO of the nonprofit Every Mother Counts, will discuss U.S. maternal health challenges, as well as legislation she is encouraging Congress to pass to improve access to maternity care for American women at a special film screening at the National Press Club on…

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Sherrilyn Ifill & Anthony Thompson Talk "Race, Inequality, and the Law" at NPC Headliners Book Event

March 6, 2018

​Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Anthony Thompson, Director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU, will appear together at a National Press Club Headliners Event at 6:30 p.m. on March 6th, the publication date of the book they co-authored with former…

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National Press Club to Make Announcement on the Case of Jailed Journalist

March 6, 2018

Livestream will begin 3/6 at 2:00pm ET. The National Press Club will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 6 to discuss a new development in the case of jailed Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto. Gutierrez, whose reporting in his home country made him a target of death threats…

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Journalist & Author Joanne Lipman Talks Workplace Parity with "That's What She Said"

March 1, 2018

In October 2017 The New York Times and The New Yorker published the first major reports that dozens of women, over a period of more than three decades, had accused media mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct and abuse. As more of his alleged victims came forward, women around the world took…

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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: National Commander of The American Legion Denise Rohan

February 23, 2018

Denise Rohan, the National Commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country’s more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on…

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Author Joseph Rodota Shares Hidden History of Iconic Watergate Complex

February 21, 2018

On June 17, 1972 five men were arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., igniting an investigation that would eventually lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and cementing the Watergate complex as one of DC’s most…

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Danni Starr, Author of "Empathy & Eyebrows" at NPC Headliners Book Event

February 13, 2018

Danni Starr, influential media personality and mental health advocate and activist, will share her memoir "Empathy and Eyebrows: A Survivalist's Stories on Reviving Your Spirit After Soul-Crushing Sh*tstorms" at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, February 13 at 6:30 p.m. Starr…

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