Past Events

Austin Channing Brown

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

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

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

Paul Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University

Jennifer Senior

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

Kieran Setiya, Ph.D.

Professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jim Holt

Author and writer

Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW

Licensed therapist and New York Times bestselling author

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Three-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker, podcast host, and multimedia entrepreneur

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Creator of the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model and author of five books

Nancy Burgoyne, Ph.D.

Chief Clinical Officer, The Family Institute at Northwestern University