Groundbreaking television producer, author and social activist Norman Lear will deliver the 28^th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 23, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Produced by Americans for the Arts, the Nancy Hanks Lecture provides an opportunity for public discourse at the highest levels on the importance of the arts and culture to our nation’s well-being.

Mr. Lear is renowned for producing several iconic and acclaimed television shows including All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, and Good Times. In 1980,  Mr. Lear decided to leave television and formed People for the American Way, a nonprofit organization designed to speak out for Bill of Rights guarantees and to monitor violations of constitutional freedoms. His biography, "Even This I Get to Experience", will be released by Penguin Books on October 14, 2014. Registration for the Nancy Hanks Lecture will open on November 10.