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ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Above Ground: A Conversation with Clint Smith

Clint Smith, Ph.D.

Staff writer at The Atlantic and New York Times bestselling author

Marcus Campbell, Ed.D.

Superintendent, Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL

May 11 2023
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory

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

May 4 2023
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Olga Khazan

Staff writer for The Atlantic and author

May 2 2023
ZOOM EVENT

Soul Shift: The Weary Human’s Guide to Getting Unstuck and Reclaiming Your Path to Joy

Rachel Macy Stafford

New York Times bestselling author

Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author

Apr 27 2023
ZOOM EVENT

Quitting: A Life Strategy

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

Apr 24 2023
ZOOM EVENT

I’m Still Here: Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me

Austin Channing Brown

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

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author

Apr 20 2023
IN-PERSON EVENT

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

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

Apr 17 2023
ZOOM EVENT

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

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

Apr 13 2023
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Poverty, by America (Event 1 of 2)

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

Apr 12 2023