NINA TOTENBERG

NPR’s Nina Totenberg joins us for the third Forum of our spring season, sharing observations about the U.S. Supreme Court and how it has changed since she presented “Perspectives on the Supreme Court” at the Forum in spring 1993.

What is justice? Who decides the role of the courts as its arbiter? What is the Supreme Court’s place in upholding democracy and defending human rights?

Totenberg is one of the country’s most respected journalists and legal affairs correspondents with more than 40 years’ experience at NPR covering the Supreme Court. Her deep experience and nuanced perspective provides insight into today’s judicial headlines. Totenberg has also penned Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, a testament to her long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Totenberg has won every major journalism award in broadcasting and was the first radio journalist to win the National Press Foundation’s “Broadcaster of the Year” award. In 2023 she was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame by the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

The Forum will be moderated by RT Rybak, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Foundation. He joined the foundation in 2016 after careers in journalism, publishing, urban development and marketing, and 12 years as mayor of Minneapolis.