Past Events

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Architect, public thought leader, and the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU)

Reed Kroloff

Dean and the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago

Carissa Carter

Designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school

Scott Doorley

Writer, designer, and the creative director at the Stanford d.school

Liz Gerber, Ph.D.

Professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America

Ellen King

Co-owner and Director of Baking Operations at Hewn Bakery

Jürgen Krauss

Celebrated participant in the 2021 season of The Great British Bake Off and cookbook author

Vince Gerasole

14-time Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist and host of CBS2’s Got Your Ticket

Oliver Burkeman

New York TImes bestselling author and former columnist for The Guardian

Daniel Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author

Jessica Calarco, Ph.D.

Associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Heidi Stevens

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

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford University

Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.

John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University

Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D.

Inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Premal Dharia

Executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School

James Forman, Jr.

J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School

Maria Hawilo

Distinguished Professor in Residence, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

W. David Ball

Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law

Shalinee Sharma

Math expert and CEO and co-founder of Zearn

Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.

Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

David Yeager, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute

Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D.

Superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois