Will Allen
Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved urban populations. After a brief career in professional basketball and a...
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Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin, professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, is widely celebrated for discovering the fossil fish Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish also known as the “fishapod”...
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...
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...
Jayson Lusk
Jayson Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. His book The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your...
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,...
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...