Honorarium Guidance for Invited Speakers.

We are immensely grateful to all our speakers who engage with our School, amidst many other pulls on their time. All events we host at the School are free and open to the public and aim to advance our collective understanding of how we can create a healthier, better world. We would like to ensure that all our speakers recognize how deeply we value their engagement and strive to ensure equity in honoraria across invitees. In offering honoraria, or not, we adhere to the following guidelines. First, if the invited speaker is in academia and is being invited to speak on topics that are directly related to one’s own area of work, we do not offer an honorarium, seeing this engagement as consistent with our collective mission in the academy. Second, if the invited speaker is being invited to speak about a topic outside of their normal work expectations, or outside of their area of intellectual engagement, we do our best to offer an honorarium that we think is consistent with standards for such engagements at other academic institutions.