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Dean and the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago

Bestselling author of "I Miss You When I Blink" and "Bomb Shelter"

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

Editor-at-large at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Co-chef and co-owner, Prairie Grass Cafe

Writer and educator

Former Chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts