Past Events

Cathy Cassani Adams, LCSW

Author, social worker, co-host of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, and co-creator of the Zen Parenting Conference

Maru Torres-Gregory, JD, Ph.D., LMFT

Couples and family therapist and faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program atThe Family Institute at Northwestern University

Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.

Associate professor of psychology and director of the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, University of Arizona

M. Katherine Shear, MD

Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work

Daniel Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and writer

Adam Grant, Ph.D.

Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Laura Coates

CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law

Emily Bazelon

Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School

Anne Case, Ph.D. and Angus Deaton, Ph.D.

Princeton University economists and co-authors, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

David Leonhardt

Pulitzer Prize-winning senior writer for The New York Times

Michelle Icard

Speaker, educator, and author

Heidi Stevens

Creative director at Parent Nation at the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health

Shaka Senghor

Bestselling author, speaker, investor, and head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at TripActions

Lolly Bowean

Writer, award-winning journalist, and community storyteller

Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Wendy Wood, Ph.D.

Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California

Claudia Goldin, Ph.D.

Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University

David Figlio, Ph.D.

Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University

Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Harvard University

Gretchen Reynolds

"Phys Ed" columnist for The New York Times