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Hunt, Gather, Parent: Raising Happy, Healthy, Little Humans

Michaeleen Doucleff, Ph.D.

Author and global health correspondent, NPR Science Desk

Heidi Stevens

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

Jun 1 2021
After-Hours event is open to all!

Life as a QuaranTEEN: Youth Mental Health Post-Pandemic

Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Psychologist, author, New York Times columnist, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host

Saul Arnow

Chair, Mental Health Working Group of the city of Chicago’s Mayor’s Youth Commission

Margo Cicero

Vice-Chair, Mental Health Working Group of the city of Chicago’s Mayor’s Youth Commission

May 25 2021

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam

Award-winning author, motivational speaker, and criminal justice reform advocate

Reuben Jonathan Miller, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

May 20 2021

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

Charlotte Alter

National correspondent for Time magazine

Eli Stone

Chicago-based campaign operative and Brandeis University student

May 18 2021
12:00 PM DAYTIME EVENT!

The Montessori Baby: Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding

Simone Davies

Author, blogger, podcast host, and directress of Jacaranda Tree Montessori in Amsterdam.

Junnifa Uzodike

Founder and head of school, Fruitful Orchard Montessori, Abuja, Nigeria. Co-author, "The Montessori Baby."

Robyn McCloud-Springer

Head of School, Chiaravalle Montessori in Evanston, IL

May 13 2021

Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Steven Johnson

New York Times bestselling author, host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, and host of the podcast American Innovations.

James Hamblin, MD, MPH

Board-certified preventive medicine physician, staff writer at The Atlantic, and lecturer at Yale School of Public Health.

May 12 2021

Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours

Sarah Sentilles

Writer, teacher, and advocate

Sally Field

Two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winning actor

May 5 2021

I Am a Girl from Africa: The Power of Community, Perseverance, and Education

Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Award-winning humanitarian and former United Nations Senior Advisor on Gender Equality

Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO of Character Lab, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

May 3 2021

Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Author, "How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American"

Gia Clarke

Founding member of the Honors BIPOC Coalition, Loyola University Chicago

Apr 22 2021

Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry

27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church

The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey D. Lee

Twelfth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago (2008-2020)

Apr 20 2021