31st Annual Wallenberg Lecture with Washington State Senator Marko Liias

This year, the lecture will focus on LGBTQIA+ legislation in Washington state and the Nordic region. Afterward, a reception with coffee and light bites in Fjord Hall is open to all lecture attendees.

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect and businessman who served as Sweden's special envoy in Nazi-occupied Budapest from July to December 1944. During that time, Wallenberg issued protective passports to Jewish persons and sheltered Jews in Swedish-territory buildings, saving tens of thousands of people from deportation to concentration camps. Wallenberg was detained by the Soviet Army in 1944 and reportedly died in a communist prison in 1947. Today, he is celebrated by countries worldwide for his courageous humanitarian efforts.