The Atlantic is today announcing new speakers––including former Secretary of State and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton––appearing at the 15th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place on Thursday, September 28, and Friday, September 29, at The Wharf in Washington, D.C. Clinton will be in conversation with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, discussing existential threats to democracy. Goldberg will also interview Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Also announced today are an interview with Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerrawith senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II; and a conversation led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and president of Emerson Collective, with the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III.
The Atlantic is pleased to welcome and announce CBS News as the exclusive broadcast media partner for The Atlantic Festival. CBS News journalists will moderate a number of conversations at the festival, and the network will have a presence throughout the event.
The festival’s two days will feature interviews with the actor, producer, and activist Kerry Washington; Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania; Governor Spencer Cox of Utah; Representative Joaquin Castro; the 2024 Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd; former Representative Gabby Giffords; the chief technology officer of OpenAI, Mira Murati; and the authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lauren Groff, and Jake Tapper. The evening of September 28 will feature the debut of Netflix’s forthcoming docuseries Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, followed by a conversation featuring the series’s director and renowned documentarian, R. J. Cutler. September 29 will feature a night of live storytelling with the filmmaker Spike Lee, in conversation with the Atlantic contributing writer Jemele Hill.
The 2023 Atlantic Festival is made possible through the generous support of Presenting Level Underwriters Leaps by Bayer, Pfizer, and Southern Company; Supporting Level Underwriter Allstate; and Contributing Level Underwriters AHIP, Barbour, Boston Consulting Group, City of Hope, Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, Goldman Sachs, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Visit Seattle.
The Atlantic Festival
September 28–29, 2023
The Wharf, D.C., and Virtually
https://theatlanticfestival.com