Our archive preserves the wisdom, insights, and ideas of more than 250 leading thinkers, analysts, innovators, artists, and activists sharing ideas on the issues that shape our world.
Here you’ll find audio recordings for most presentations and video for presentations for lectures after 2004.
Our new Executive Director, Sara Wilhelm Garbers, takes the helm of the Westminster Town Hall Forum on September 2, 2025.
Sarah Lewis’ research focuses on the intersection of visual representation, racial justice, and democracy in the United States from the nineteenth century through the present.
Prior to being named the first Chief Impact Officer for the Minnesota Timberwolves & Lynx of the NBA and WNBA, Tru Pettigrew served as the organizations’ Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, and Vice President of Player Programs and Diversity and Inclusion.
Jack Goldsmith teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, international law, federal courts, and internet law.
Well known for his powerful storytelling, Robert Samuels won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Makena Kelly is a senior writer at WIRED focused on the intersection of politics, power, and technology. She writes the Politics Lab newsletter that helps you make sense of how the internet is shaping our political reality.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is an American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance (CSPG) at the University of Minnesota.
Bob Bauer is professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the New York University School of Law. In 2021, President Biden named him to be co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Wesley Lowery is one of the nation’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He will speak at our 2024 Arc Toward Justice Forum–our annual talk reflecting on another year since George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis and the racial uprising it sparked.
Westminster Town Hall Forum TownTalks welcomes two expert guests to explain the obstacles and inequities affecting Black economic prosperity in our state. They will highlight potential policy, program, and investment solutions to advance racial equity.
