9/7/08: Election 2008 - Time for Change? - Guest Speakers: Steve Westly, California Co-Chair of Obama's Presidential Campaign, Former California State Controller, CEO of The Westly Group; and Steve Preminger, Chair of Santa Clara County Democratic Party, Director of Union Community Resources, Producer and Host of the Democratic Television

9/17/06: US-Iran Relations - Guest Speaker: Dr. Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University, Research Fellow & Co-Director of Iran Democracy Project, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

9/22/05: Future of US-Iran Relations: How Can This Troubled Relationship Move Towards Peace? - Guest Speaker: Reza Aslan, Research Associate, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of California, and author of "No god but God"

8/14/05: Are We Ready? - A forum about the future of the Iranian-American community. Guest Speakers: Honorable Ross Mirkarimi, Supervisor, District 5, City & County of San Francisco, and Professor Elahe Enssani, Commissioner, San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission

1/23/05: Iran’s Nuclear Issue, Peering through the Fog of Nuclear Proliferation - Guest Speakers: National Security expert, Dr. Ivan Eland, Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office; and Dr. Ali Nayeri, Research Affiliate at MIT and Visiting Professor at the University of Florida

10/3/04: What Is at Stake? - about the 2004 Presidential Elections. Guest Speaker: Dr. Abbas Milani, Visiting Professor in Political Science Department and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

8/29/04: Is Iran America's New Whipping Boy? - about the US foreign policy toward Iran. Guest Speakers: Dr. Dariush Zahedi, Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Ali Ferdowsi, Chair of the History & Political Science Department at the Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont

6/27/04: Erosion of Civil Liberties for Iranians in post 9/11 America - Guest Speakers: Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Civil Rights Attorney, and Ross Mirkarimi, Assistant District Attorney, County and City of San Francisco and a candidate for County Supervisor of San Francisco