Past Events

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author

Robert Waldinger, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author

Kelly Corrigan

NYT bestselling author and host of PBS' Tell Me More and the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Meredith Elkins, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist, faculty member of Harvard Medical School, and co–program director, McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, McLean Hospital

Rebecca Jenkins

Superintendent of Libertyville School District 70 in Libertyville, IL

Joel de la Fuente

Award-winning stage and screen actor

Jeanne Sakata

Award-winning actor and playwright

Lisa Doi, Ph.D.

Assistant curator and project manager at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles

Nicholas Thompson

CEO of The Atlantic

David Epstein

Science writer and best-selling author

Guy Kawasaki

Chief evangelist of Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, and author

Heidi Stevens

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

Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ph.D.

Neuroscientist, writer, and founder of Ness Labs

Susan Dominus

Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New York Times Magazine

Pria Anand, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine

Anupam B. Jena, MD, Ph.D.

Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and host of the "Freakonomics, MD" podcast

Jeffrey Rosen

President and CEO of the National Constitution Center and Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School

David Blight, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Beth Arey

College and Career Services Coordinator at Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL