Runway Lecture
Registration will open September 1, 2025
Runway is designed to bring the energy and dialogue around social justice, equity, and inclusion on our campus directly to alumni and parents, providing you with runways to be change-makers at work, as volunteers, and at home with friends and family.
2025 Runway Lecture: Duncan Hosie '12, constitutional law scholar
Duncan Hosie '12 is a legal scholar and writer. He studies constitutional law and theory, with a particular focus on the First Amendment and the intersection of constitutional jurisprudence with political mobilization and polarization. He has a prodigious talent for using the popular voice to dissect and analyze his subject matter, and is widely published. Duncan’s first national editorial was published in the L.A. Times in 2013. His scholarly articles on constitutional law have been published in seven academic journals, and his popular writing about the Court has been published in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, and elsewhere. In 2025 he has published The Apathetic Court, The Degradation of Big Law, and Why Liberals Should Celebrate the End of Diversity Statements at UC.
Starting fall 2025 he will be an academic fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Previously he was a Steven Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History at the Brennan Center at the NYU School of Law. Before entering legal academia, he practiced law as an ACLU lawyer, a clerk to a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and an appellate attorney in a leading Supreme Court practice. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and two masters degrees as a Marshall scholar from the London School of Economics and Oxford. Read his writing at duncanhosie.com
Friday, November 7, 2025
Downtown Olympic Club
524 Post Street, San Francisco
- 11:00 Doors open
- 12:00 Lunch
- 12:30 Program begins
$50 or FREE for members of our community who work in social justice professionally
Questions? Contact Marianna Stark '89, director of alumni engagement and giving
415-407-8743 or marianna.stark@sfuhs.org
Past Runway Lecture Speakers
2024 Makeda Best PhD ’93 is deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Oakland Museum of California. She is co-founder of Museums Moving Forward, a Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation funded curator-driven initiative to support greater equity and accountability in art museum workplaces through data and research.
2023 Michael Wara '91, P '26, on the pathway to equitably transition our energy, transportation, and housing away from fossil fuels and towards zero carbon solutions. Michael is the Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment as well as Senior Director for Policy at the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
2022 Atteeyah Hollie ‘98, deputy director of the Southern Center for Human Rights on ending wealth-based inequality in our justice system.
2021 Aaron Tartakovsky '08, co-founder and CEO of Epic Cleantec: A Journey from Politics to Plumbing:
Stewarding Our Most Precious Resource. Click here to watch the video.
2020 Louise Aronson MD, MFA ’81; Cynthia Brown MSN '91, SB '87; Jeffrey Hom MD, MPH, MSHP '00; Tomás Magaña, MD, MA, FAAP '82; moderated by Jen Rogers '91: Advancing Health Equity in the Time of Covid-19, a conversation with four distinguished alums who work in public health. Click here to watch the video of the event.
2019 Lareina Yee '91, P '21 on the power of inclusion at work, raising awareness on the subject of implicit bias in the workplace. Lareina leads Women in the Workplace, a research partnership with LeanIn.org and the Wall Street Journal. She is also chief diversity and inclusion officer for McKinsey, and member of the global partnership service team.
2018 Louise (Davis) Langheier '99, Co-Founder and CEO of Peer Health Exchange, established in 2003. PHE’s mission is to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions. They do this by training college students to teach a skills-based health curriculum in under-resourced high schools across the country.
2017 Ian Haney López is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Haney Lopez forcefully connects the growing racial divisions in society and the surging wealth inequality that hurts everyone. Haney Lopez is an engaging educator who has spoken at the Aspen Foundation, Commonwealth Club, National Press Club, and more. He spoke with University High School students following the election in November, 2016.