Past Events

Hal Hershfield, Ph.D.

Professor of marketing, behavioral decision making, and psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management

Daniel Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author

Samantha Irby

Writer

Megan Stielstra

Award-winning essayist

Brian Lowery, Ph.D.

Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Marcus Campbell, Ed.D.

Superintendent, Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL

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

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

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Olga Khazan

Staff writer for The Atlantic and author

Rachel Macy Stafford

New York Times bestselling author

Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author

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

Austin Channing Brown

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

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

Yolanda Renteria, LPC, NCC

Trauma therapist and licensed professional counselor