Past Events

Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.

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

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW

Psychotherapist, author, and podcast host

David Greenberg, Ph.D.

Professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University

David Blight, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

Nicholas Carr

Author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and other acclaimed books. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Christine Rosen

Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, columnist for Commentary magazine, and a cohost of The Commentary Magazine podcast

Jorge Cham, Ph.D.

Daytime Emmy-nominated and best-selling cartoonist creator and the co-author of two popular science books

Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D.

Professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

Psychotherapist, bestselling author, founder and executive director of The Center for Connection, and co-founder of The Play Strong Institute

Georgie Wisen-Vincent, LMFT

Nationally recognized play therapy expert and co-founder and head of faculty for the Play Strong Institute

Carly Andrews

Executive Director of The Alliance for Early Childhood

Naomi Watts

Academy Award-nominated actor and founder and chief creative officer of Stripes Beauty

Heidi Stevens

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

Sunita Sah, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business

Ethan Kross, Ph.D.

Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan

Kurt Gray, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University

Jenny Anderson

Award-winning journalist, writer of the “How to Be Brave” Substack newsletter, and host of the LearnIt podcast.

Rebecca Winthrop, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and adjunct professor at Georgetown University

Charles Duhigg

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist.and New York Times bestselling author

Lauren Freeman, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy at University of Louisville and Director of the M.A. in Applied Philosophy

Heather Stewart, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University

Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University