2009

Cory Booker
Ann Gentile
Judith Shapiro

2008

Gloria Ladson-Billings
David Paterson
Randi Weingarten

2007

Shirley Ann Jackson
Lee Shulman
Thomas Sobol

2006

William G. Bowen
Benjamin Carson
K. Patricia Cross
David Halbertsam
Frances Hesselbein
Freeman Hrabowski
Thomas Kean
Arthur Levine
Charles B. Rangel
Ruth Westheimer

2005

Jerome Bruner
Judy Collins
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Richard Heffner

2004

Lee C. Bollinger
Jane Goodall
Vartan Gregorian
Johnathan Kozol
George Mitchell
Claude Steele

2003

Ken Burns
Morris Dees
Reverend James Forbes
Pete Seeger
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

2002

Cheryl Brown
Coretta Scott King
David Levering Lewis
Congressman John Lewis

2001

Wynton Marsalis
Frank McCourt
Milbrey McLaughlin

2000

Ellen Futter
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Gov. James B. Hunt
Edward Zigler