Steven Spielberg
2014 Recipient
Steven Spielberg, one of the entertainment industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, is a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios… Read More

The Little Rock Nine
2015 Recipients
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring unconstitutional any and all laws, which established or maintained segregation in schools. In 1957, in response to the ruling, nine black students, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), registered to attend Little Rock Central High School. Read More
Doris Kearns Goodwin
2016 Recipient
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author...Read More
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2017 Recipient
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship at the Hayden Planetarium...Read More
Tony Blair
2018 Recipient
Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is widely recognized around the world for his stewardship of the United Kingdom through an especially important period in its history....Read More
George W. Bush
2019 Recipient
George W. Bush served as 43rd President of the United States of America from 2001-2009....Read More
David M. Rubenstein
2020 Recipient
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of global investment firm The Carlyle Group. ....Read More