Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will deliver Lehigh’s 2026 Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding.
The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is an annual event hosted by Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences that brings prominent leaders, authors and journalists to campus to engage the community in discussions on pressing social and cultural issues.
Buttigieg served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 2021 to 2025 and previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary…