memoir

Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Black Studies and the Inaugural Chair in Social Sciences and the Humanities at The University of Illinois at Chicago

Artist, archivist, curator, and professor and Special Advisor to the President at the University of Chicago

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

Science writer and best-selling author

Vice President, Creative Strategy, Innovation, and Business Development at The Second City

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

Critically acclaimed author of seven novels for young adults

“Ask Polly” advice columnist on Substack, essayist, and author

Emergency medicine doctor and author of multiple works of medical fiction