Dr. Thomas Fisher

Dr. Thomas Fisher is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center and a Venture Chair at Redesign Health. There, he uses lessons he learned serving...

Maya-Camille Broussard

Netflix’s Bake Squad star Maya-Camille Broussard is the owner of the Chicago-based bakery Justice of the Pies, which specializes in sweet and savory pies, quiches, and tarts. Broussard created her bakery in...

Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy is one of the most influential American contemporary musicians. Since beginning Wilco in 1994, he has written hundreds of original songs, sold millions of records worldwide, won three...

Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai’s novel, The Great Believers, is a masterful story of love, friendship, and redemption that intertwines the saga of the 1980s Chicago AIDS crisis with that of a mother...

Dr. Dana Suskind

Dana Suskind, MD, is Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, and Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and...

Cristina Henríquez

Cristina Henríquez is the author most recently of The Great Divide, an epic novel about the building of the Panama Canal and the unsung people who lived and labored there. Her...

Wendy McClure

Wendy McClure has been writing about her obsessions for nearly a decade. Her book The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, is a...

Bethany McLean

Bethany McLean is a business journalist and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She was the editor-at-large for thirteen years at Fortune before joining Vanity Fair in July 2008 and Slate as a columnist in...

Jen Lancaster

Jen Lancaster is the New York Times–bestselling author of My Fair Lazy; Bitter Is the New Black;  Pretty in Plaid;  Such a Pretty Fat; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Twisted Sisters; Jeneration X;...