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. Mona Hanna-Attisha

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a C. S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and founding director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative,...

Jedidiah Jenkins

Many people dream about leaving their jobs to travel the world, but Jedidiah Jenkins is one of the few to turn this dream into a reality. Finding himself dissatisfied with...

Charlie LeDuff

 Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, formerly at the New York Times, the Detroit News, and on Detroit’s Fox 2 News. He was one of several reporters who worked on the New York Times series “How...

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...