2024 MacArthur Fellow and #1 New York Times bestselling author
Social work department chair at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL
Staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing
Award-winning author, podcast host, professor, and licensed clinical psychologist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
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