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RENEE ENGELN
Dr. Renee Engeln has been a professor for eleven years at Northwestern University, where she teaches about psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social...
Renee Engeln
Psychologist, Body Image Researcher, & Author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
CHRIS GARDNER
Best-selling author and successful entrepreneur Chris Gardner knows a thing or two about overcoming daunting obstacles. In his 2006 autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness...
Chris Gardner
Best-Selling Author of The Pursuit of Happyness and Entrepreneur
JIM GILMARTIN
Jim Gilmartin is one of America's top experts on marketing and selling to baby boomers and senior customers. In 2009, Gilmartin co-authored Market Smart: The Best in...
Jim Gilmartin
Nationally Recognized Baby Boomer, Senior Marketing & Sales Expert, and Co-Author of Market Smart
ILYCE GLINK
Ilyce Glink is an award-winning, nationally-syndicated columnist, blogger, television reporter, radio talk show host, and best-selling author. Her syndicated column,...
Ilyce Glink
Award-Winning, Nationally-Syndicated Columnist; Specialist in Real Estate and Finance
NANCY JOHNSON
A native of Chicago’s South Side, Nancy Johnson worked for more than a decade as an Emmy-nominated, award-winning television journalist at CBS and ABC affiliates in...
Nancy Johnson
Novelist Telling Stories of Race in America
KELLY LEONARD
Kelly Leonard is the Executive Vice President of The Second City, world renowned improvisational comedy theatre enterprise in Chicago, IL, and The President of Second...
Kelly Leonard
Noted Theatrical Entrepreneur
WENDY PEARLMAN
Wendy Pearlman is a professor and award-winning teacher at Northwestern University, specializing in Middle East politics. With a BA from Brown and PhD from Havard, Pearlman...
Wendy Pearlman
Middle East Expert, Award-Winning Professor, & Author of Works Explaining Complex Politics Through an Accessible Human Lens
HANNAH PITTARD
Hannah Pittard's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Oxford American, The Mississippi Review, BOMB, Nimrod, and StoryQuarterly, and was included in 2008 Best American...
Hannah Pittard
Author of
The Fates Will Find Their Way
JASON B. ROSENTHAL
Jason B. Rosenthal is the co-author (with his daughter Paris) of The New York Times #1 bestselling book, Dear Boy (HarperCollins). He is a foundation Board Chair, public...
Jason B. Rosenthal
Speaker, Advocate, and Author
DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER
Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist...
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Leading Expert on Gender Violence
TOM WATSON
Tom Watson is the bestselling author of the beloved Stick Dog, Stick Cat, and the Trouble at Table 5 series. Filled with Watson’s trademark combination of laughs, adventure...
Tom Watson
Bestselling Author of Stick Dog, Stick Cat and the Trouble at Table 5 Series
C. PERRY YEATMAN
C. Perry Yeatman is co-author with Stacie Nevadomski Berdan of Get Ahead by Going Abroad:A Woman’s Guide to Fast-Track Career Success. She is an expert on women...
C. Perry Yeatman
Senior Executive and Expert on Women and International Careers
TOM YORTON
Tom Yorton has been CEO of Second City Works, the b2b arm of The Second City, world renowned improvisational comedy theatre enterprise in Chicago, IL, since 2002. Yorton...
Tom Yorton
CEO of Second City Works, The B2B Arm of The Legendary Comedy Theatre, The Second City