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Science writer and best-selling author

Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health

Award-winning journalist and author, and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Social work department chair at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL

Writer, essayist, and author

Incoming president of the Valhalla Foundation and former Director in the U.S. Education Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter