2024 Shaneen Dials-Corujo [pdf]
2023 Daphne A. Brooks
2022 Aisha Durham [pdf]
2020 Sandra Rattley (view the lecture)
2019 Valerie Smith [pdf]
2018 Ijeoma Oluo (view a clip)
2017 Courtney Bryan [pdf]
2016 Anita F. Hill [pdf]
2015 Claudia Rankine [pdf]
2014 Cathy J. Cohen
2013 Nikky Finney
2012 Cynthia Hardy
2011 Anita F. Hill
2010 Yvonne Latty
2009 Tameika Isaac Devine
2008 Adia Harvey Wingfield and Dianne “Dinah” Johnson
2007 Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
2006 Portia Cobb
2005 Beverly Guy-Sheftall
2004 Barbara Ransby
2003 Leith Mullings
2002 Curtis Frye and championship team
2001 Carole Marks
2000 Faith Ringgold
1999 Thyvolia Glymph
1998 Adrienne Davis
1997 Sharon Harley
1996 Bonnie Thorton Dill
1995 Patricia Hill Collins
1994 Thadious Davis
1993 Freeman Lecture Established