Sarah and John Graves Distinguished Lecture – Leslie Berlin

The spring 2025 Sarah and John Graves Distinguished Lecture features a fireside chat with Leslie Berlin, a historian who has chronicled the rise of tech culture and the history of Silicon Valley for more than two decades. She is the founding executive director of the Steve Jobs Archive and chair of the advisory group for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She is the editor of “Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words” and author of two books, “The Man Behind the Microchip,” a biography of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, and “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age.” She also wrote the Prototype column for the Sunday Business section of the New York Times.