Jordan Klepper, Harvard Humanist of the Year,
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The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, along with the Harvard College Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics (HCHAA), is delighted to announce that Jordan Klepper is the 2025 Harvard Humanist of the Year.
Klepper is best known for his work as a longtime correspondent and host for legendary comedy show The Daily Show (alongside both Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah), and his multiple Emmy-nominated specials focusing on the political world. Bringing a deeply humanistic vision into an extraordinarily wide range of comedic interactions, Jordan has witnessed an insurrection, capsized a boat with pipeline protestors, interviewed a President, and been arrested and locked up in Fulton County Jail. He also travels the globe with his segment “Fingers The Pulse,” which has racked up hundreds of millions of views.
Throughout such work, including especially impactful on-the-street dialogues with Donald Trump supporters and MAGA enthusiasts at Trump rallies and Republican conventions — and even bringing them to a Democratic convention as observers — Klepper uses comedy to entertain millions while practicing a political style that is deeply needed, even visionary, for this moment in the history of democracy: talking with respect and curiosity to people with whom we disagree.
Klepper will join a list of influential and accomplished past Harvard Humanist honorees including novelist Sir Salman Rushdie; late Star Wars actress and author Carrie Fisher; #1 New York Times-bestselling authors Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black) and Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race), film auteur Seth MacFarlane, and many more.
An award ceremony honoring Klepper, In conversation with Greg M. Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT and New York Times bestselling author of Good Without God, will take place on Saturday November 1st at 7pm at Harvard University. This is a private campus event but a limited number of seats have been set aside for the broader Humanist community. These can be reserved today via Eventbrite, by making a donation that will be passed along entirely to the ACLU of Massachusetts. The event may sell out quickly, so don’t delay! PLEASE DO NOT RSVP TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. TICKETS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH EVENTBRITE
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