Krista Tippett is a National Humanities Medalist and bestselling author. She founded and leads the On Being Project - a groundbreaking media and public life initiative - and is the creator and host of the Peabody Award-winning On Being radio show. Tippett takes up the great animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? Who will we be to each other?

The fourth annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement capped off the Pace Center for Civic Engagement's Summer Service Orientation on May 21, 2021 and was sponsored by: Princeton University Public Lectures, the University Center for Human Values, the John H. Pace, Jr. '39 Center for Civic Engagement, and the Program in Journalism.