The Richmond Forum

The Richmond Forum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization in Richmond, Virginia. Our mission is to present powerful voices so Richmond can learn and to empower local voices so Richmond can lead. The Forum is a subscription series, producing five programs each year at the Altria Theater for 6,000 subscribers, sponsors, and students from our community. The biggest and most influential names in the world have taken the stage at The Richmond Forum, including: U.S. Presidents: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama U.S. Secretaries of State: James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice International Heads of Government: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Julia Gillard, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Vicente Fox, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Schmidt, Benazir Bhutto, and Mary Robinson Scientists, Explorers & Inventors: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Robert Ballard, John Glenn, Jane Goodall, George Church, Burt Rutan, Peter Diamandis, Neil Armstrong, and Carl Sagan Artists & Entertainers: Alan Alda, Garry Trudeau, Glenn Close, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Martin & Martin Short, Robert Redford, Bob Newhart, Quincy Jones, Carl Reiner, Julie Andrews, Dick Clark, Smokey Robinson, David Blaine, and Rosanne Cash Journalists, Commentators & Writers: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Anderson Cooper, David Brooks, Fareed Zakaria, Jim Lehrer, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Tim Russert, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Thomas Friedman, Tom Brokaw, Bill Moyers, Charles Kuralt, and Barbara Walters Sports Figures: Russell Wilson, Diana Nyad, Cal Ripken, Terry Bradshaw, and Howie Long And hundreds more.