FIRE up! Lukianoff on StageX

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Attorney, best-selling author, and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Greg Lukianoff is coming to StageX at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit!

Greg Lukianoff continuously upholds FIRE’s fierce commitments to sincere nonpartisanship, courageous advocacy, and free speech as a force for good, both on and off campuses. A First Amendment expert and self-identified “opinion absolutist,” Greg guides FIRE as it fights for free expression regardless of political bent or ideological orientation—including defending universities the organization has previously challenged.

“Young people used to be the great drivers of free speech, and they can be again… To understand the world, it’s crucial to know what people really think… and for that, we need free speech.”

—Greg Lukianoff, April 2025

Beyond his principled leadership of FIRE, Greg has shaped national discourse through his prolific writing—including New York Times bestseller The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, which he co-authored with renowned social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The book was a nonfiction finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, a New York Times Notable Book, Bloomberg’s Best Book of 2018, and even one of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of All Time.

He has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, and he frequently lends his expertise to news and podcasts exploring questions from “How is this administration affecting universities?” to “Will AI kill our freedom to think?”

Don’t miss critical conversations at the intersection of education and expression on StageX—April 12-15 in San Diego!

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