The President's Panel on Politics and Policy is a speaker series that began in January 2017 and is designed to examine issues important to the UMB community.
With so much at stake in terms of health and higher education policy, federal budget priorities, and issues of civil rights and social justice, UMB encourages the University community to take part in these timely conversations.
Past Speakers
Feb. 22, 2024 – A Conversation with Greg Lindsay
Greg Lindsay, urbanist, futurist, and globalist
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Feb. 14, 2023 – A Conversation with NPR’s Nina Totenberg
Renée McDonald Hutchins, JD, dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, moderated a discussion with Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent, after an introduction by UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS.
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Nov. 17, 2022 – Post-Election Analysis
Mara Liasson, National Public Radio political correspondent, and Jonah Goldberg, conservative syndicated columnist, political analyst, and commentator
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April 7, 2022 – Misinformation
Chris Wallace, veteran journalist
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April 29, 2021 – Social Justice and Structural Racism in Baltimore
Kurt L. Schmoke, JD, University of Baltimore president and former Baltimore mayor
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Feb. 17, 2021 – How to Be an Anti-Racist
Ibram X. Kendi, PhD, MA, historian, professor, and best-selling author
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Nov. 5, 2020 – Post-Election Analysis
Michael Steele, JD, MSNBC political analyst and former Maryland lieutenant governor
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Feb. 25, 2020 – Politics, Parties, and Public Service
Michael Steele, JD, MSNBC political analyst and former Maryland lieutenant governor
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March 5, 2019 – Covering the Trump Presidency
Maggie Haberman, The New York Times White House correspondent and CNN political analyst
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Nov. 27, 2018 – National Politics and Community Organizing
Barbara Mikulski, MSW ’65, Johns Hopkins University professor of public policy, former U.S. senator from Maryland
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May 1, 2018 – The Intersection of Federal Policy and State Priorities
Former Maryland governors Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Parris N. Glendening
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Oct. 31, 2017 – Creating Change
Derreck Kayongo, Business Visionary, Global Soap Project Founder, and CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights
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May 2, 2017 – Federal Budget Outlook
Matt Hourihan, American Association for the Advancement of Science
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March 21, 2017 – Higher Education
Goldie Blumenstyk, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Feb. 28, 2017 – Social Justice
Frank Bruni, The New York Times
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Jan. 31, 2017 – Health Care
Karen Fisher, JD, Chief Public Policy Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges
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