Hamptons Institute: The Future of Women in Leadership, August 19, 2019. Left to right: Brette McSweeney, President of Eleanor’s Legacy; Taylor Darling, New York State
Assembly; Avery Reed, Student Activist; Kimberly Jean-Pierre, New York State Assembly;
Kathy Hochul, Lieutenant Governor of New York; Cecile Richards, former President of
Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Norman Eisen, globally recognized authority on law, ethics and anti-corruption, and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, lead a panel discussion on the prosecutorial process and enforcing legal limits on the current Trump administration. Moderated by James D. Zirin, author, legal analyst, and television show host.
GUARDRAILS ON DEMOCRACY
MONDAY, JULY 7, 7 PM
SNL: 50 YEARS OF AMERICAN SATIRE
MONDAY, JULY 14, 7 PM
POST-PLAY CHILDHOOD
MONDAY, JULY 21, 7 PM
ORDER OR CHAOS: THE ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP
MONDAY, JULY 28, 7 PM
The Hamptons Institute, established in 2010, features leaders in their fields discussing ideas that shape our community and the world. The 2025 installment is guest-curated by Ellen Chesler, author and Hamptons Institute co-founder (with Guild Hall late Chair, Mickey Straus), and Patricia Duff, founder of the nonpartisan non-profit, The Common Good, dedicated to civic participation, civil dialogue, and finding solutions and common ground. Each evening explores a single topic from the perspective of multiple professionals, followed by a Q&A.
Special thanks to Leila Straus.
Sponsors
Performing Arts programs are supported in part by funding from Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Christine and Bill Campbell, John and Joan D’Addario, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Debbie and Henry Druker, Lena Kaplan, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve Pesner, in memory of his wife, Michèle Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Leila Straus, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Andrew Yuder and Kyle Glaeser.