Past Events

Nicholas Epley, Ph.D.

John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

David Brooks

Staff writer for The Atlantic and the inaugural Senior Presidential Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs

Claude M. Steele, Ph.D.

Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Stanford University

Marcus Campbell, Ed.D.

Superintendent, Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL

David Epstein

Science writer and best-selling author

Megan Twohey

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

Imani Perry, JD, Ph.D.

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and the cofounder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum

Beth E. Richie, Ph.D.

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

Jodi Kantor

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author

Mary Claire Haver, MD

Board-certified OB/GYN, founder of The 'Pause Wellness, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

Heidi Stevens

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

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

Clinical and research psychologist and bestselling author

Mary C. Commerford, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst

Brian Goldstone, Ph.D.

Journalist and Author

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cortland Dahl, Ph.D.

Chief Contemplative Officer at Humin and research scientist at UW-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds

Jacqueline Moreno

Chief Service Officer of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission