Past Events

Shannon Watts

Founder, Moms Demand Action

Pastor Brenda Mitchell

State Chapter Co-Leader for Moms Demand Action in Illinois and a Fellow with the Everytown Survivor Network

Heidi Stevens

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

David Ambroz

Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon and Author

Brandon Nichols

Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Director of the Greater Good Science Center, and bestselling author

Susan Cain

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Bittersweet

Robert Waldinger, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation

Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School

Nick Riggle, Ph.D.

Associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego

Todd Kashdan, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology, George Mason University, and bestselling author

Charlotte Burgess-Auburn, MA

Director of Community at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

Liz Gerber, Ph.D.

Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America

Lydia Denworth

Award-winning science journalist, author of Friendship, and co-author of Parent Nation.

Lydia Denworth

Award-winning science journalist, author of Friendship, and co-author of Parent Nation.

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Andy Borst, Ph.D.

Director of Undergraduate Admissions at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ron Lieber

"Your Money" Columnist for The New York Times

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Andrea Mondragón

The Joan Feitler ’49 Co-Director of College Counseling at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago