Past Events

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

Michael Norton, Ph.D.

Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Sam Sommers, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Racial Equity and Diversity Lab at Tufts University

Alan Lightman, Ph.D.

Professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT and author of seven novels

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Faculty Director of the Greater Good Science Center, and bestselling author

DeMar DeRozan

Six-time NBA All-Star and two-time gold medalist for the United States Men’s Basketball Team

Hanif Abdurraqib

New York Times bestselling poet, essayist, and cultural critic

Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH

Associate Medical Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Tramaine Presley, Psy.D., LCPC, LMHC

Director of Child, Adolescent, and Family Services at The Family Institute at Northwestern University

Tom McGrath

Award-winning journalist and author

Rachel Slade

Award-winning journalist and author

Rebecca Nagle

Award-winning journalist, writer, and host of the podcast "This Land," and citizen of Cherokee Nation

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D. (Lumbee)

Dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy

Glory Edim

Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors

Natalie Y. Moore

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