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IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better

David Epstein

Science writer and best-selling author

Megan Twohey

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times

May 15 2026
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries

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

May 14 2026
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Backtalker: An American Memoir

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

May 8 2026
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work

Jodi Kantor

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author

May 7 2026
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yourself Again

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

Apr 29 2026
ZOOM EVENT

An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

Clinical and research psychologist and bestselling author

Mary C. Commerford, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst

Apr 16 2026
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

Born to Flourish: How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal a Simple Path to Thriving

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

Apr 8 2026
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Everybody’s Fly: Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

Fab 5 Freddy

Artist, Filmmaker, and Architect of Hip-Hop Culture

Theaster Gates

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

Mar 19 2026
ZOOM EVENT

The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Mar 17 2026