Past Events

Laura Coates

CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law

Emily Bazelon

Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School

Anne Case, Ph.D. and Angus Deaton, Ph.D.

Princeton University economists and co-authors, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

David Leonhardt

Pulitzer Prize-winning senior writer for The New York Times

Michelle Icard

Speaker, educator, and author

Heidi Stevens

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

Shaka Senghor

Bestselling author, speaker, investor, and head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at TripActions

Lolly Bowean

Writer, award-winning journalist, and community storyteller

Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Wendy Wood, Ph.D.

Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California

Claudia Goldin, Ph.D.

Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University

David Figlio, Ph.D.

Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University

Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Harvard University

Gretchen Reynolds

"Phys Ed" columnist for The New York Times

Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner

Co-authors, The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook

Sarah Stegner

Co-chef and co-owner, Prairie Grass Cafe

Laurie Rosenwald

Illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator

Risa Mickenberg

Writer, director, performer, creative director, provocateur, and entrepreneur

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, creator of the 1619 Project, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, and founder of Howard’s Center for Journalism and Democracy

Carol Anderson, Ph.D.

Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University

Claudia Rankine

Professor of Creative Writing, New York University. Award-winning poet and 2016 MacArthur Fellow.