Announcing the first speaker of the 2025–2026 Thinkable series: Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates, the #1 New York Times best selling author of Between the World and Me, has reframed how we think about race, identity, and power in public life, through his work.
Across essays, memoir, and reportage, he has spent two decades examining the American story: its fractures, its histories, and the forces that shape them.