Past Events

Jennifer Senior

Staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing

Heidi Stevens

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

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Olga Khazan

Staff writer for The Atlantic and author

Rachel Macy Stafford

New York Times bestselling author

Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author

Julia Keller, Ph.D.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright

Heidi Stevens

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

Austin Channing Brown

Bestselling author, writer, speaker, and CEO of Herself Media

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author

Yolanda Renteria, LPC, NCC

Trauma therapist and licensed professional counselor

Mary Louise Kelly

Co-host of NPR's "All Thing Considered"

Heidi Stevens

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

Arline T. Geronimus, Sc.D.

Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan

Doriane C. Miller, MD

Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality and the director of Health Equity Integration for the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago

Matthew Desmond, Ph.D.

Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Reuben Jonathan Miller, Ph.D.

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

Matthew Desmond, Ph.D.

Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Alex Kotlowitz

Bestselling author, journalist, and professor at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University