Family Service Center (FSC)

[FAN] Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child Kelley Coleman
2024-04-18 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:00 PM, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child, a FAN webinar featuring Kelley Coleman, in conversation with Lindsay Crain.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ColemanFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTERHOURS event hosted by Ms. Coleman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a baby is born with a birth defect every 4½ minutes. One of those children was Kelley Coleman’s son, born with a rare (and still undiagnosed) genetic syndrome. Feeling equal parts terrified and alone, she soon learned that no one tells parents how to do any of this. In her new book, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential System, Services, and Supports, Coleman, a feature film development executive turned author and passionate advocate for parent caregivers and individuals with disabilities, turns her hard-earned expertise into the much needed “You Are Here” on the map of this unexpected journey.
Presented with empathy and humor, the book gives parents the tools to navigate the complex medical, educational, and social service systems necessary for disabled children to thrive. This is “been there, tried that” insider information about diagnosis, working with your medical team, insurance, school, financial and future planning, disability rights, and advocacy.
Coleman will be in conversation with Lindsay Crain, head of Content and Community at Undivided, an organization with a mission to support and empower parents raising children with disabilities. As the parent of a teenager with cerebral palsy, Crain is driven to build and reinforce systems and practices that create a more inclusive culture. She is currently serving as a Community Representative on the CA State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

2024 Annual Kaleidoscope Benefit
2024-04-20 19:00 - 22:30 | Fields MINI of Glencoe, 2100 Frontage Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022
FSC’s 3rd Annual Night of Vegas-Styled Fun! Join us at Fields MINI of Glencoe (2100 Frontage Rd, Glencoe) for an evening to remember on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Early Bird Ticket Pricing is available through March 29th!
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Started in 2022, FSC Annual Kaleidoscope Benefits have become a must-attend for those who want to support mental health and have a great time doing so. Great fun, food, conversation, and chances to go home with amazing goodies from lots of your favorite places (thanks to all those generous businesses!). It literally has magic! ✨ See pictures from 2023. See pictures from 2022.
Community participation and the funds raised by this event helps FSC’s amazing clinical staff do so much to address such a great need around mental health. #AllInOnHope
Special thanks to FSC’s growing list of sponsors for their support and helping to make this an incredible night! Learn more about how to become a sponsor.

[FAN] Somehow: Thoughts on Love Anne Lamott
2024-04-23 19:00 | Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center, 1100 Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL, 60091, United States
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 7:00 PM, Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Loyola Academy, McGrath Family Performing Arts Center, 1100 Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091. Interviewer: Heidi Stevens. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Somehow: Thoughts on Love at the event, while supplies last. No registration required.
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, beloved bestselling author Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. “Love just won’t be pinned down,” she says. “It is in our very atmosphere” and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love.
In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises.
Lamott is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including Dusk, Night, Dawn; Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels. She is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame.
Lamott will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, and creative director for Parent Nation, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.
2024-04-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practic, 969 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL, 60637
Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:30 PM, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, 969 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637. Interviewer: Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW. NOTE: REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CEUs available. Information on registration website. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY to the first 200 attendees, one per household.
REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/GlaudeFANCrown
We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ph.D., one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Dr. Glaude shows how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires, rather than outsourcing their needs to leaders who purportedly represent them.
The book begins with Dr. Glaude’s unease with the Obama years. He felt then, and does even more urgently now, that the excitement around the Obama presidency had become a disciplining tool to narrow legitimate forms of Black political dissent. This narrowing continues to undermine the well-being of Black communities. In response, Dr. Glaude guides us away from enthusiastic reliance on elected leaders and full surrender to a belief in unchanging political structures. He weaves anecdotes about his own evolving views on Black politics together with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Sheldon Wolin, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
Dr. Glaude (FAN ’20) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and the author of several books, including Democracy in Black and the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, winner of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Book Prize.
Dr. Glaude will be in conversation with Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master’s Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She has worked in higher education for over 25 years as an administrator and faculty member.

[FAN] The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?
2024-04-29 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Monday, April 29, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. Interviewer: Natalie Y. Moore. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pushed for the successful passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the signature legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. With that victory, Dr. King turned his attention north, where he helped lead the Chicago Freedom Movement, a coalition of organizations that addressed the range of ills connected to residential segregation and economic inequality in Chicago. Though shortlived, the Chicago Freedom Movement is credited with inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act. This event takes stock of Dr. King’s legacy in Chicago and the nation, offering views on how far we’ve come, what work remains, and how best to carry out that work.
For this lively and wide-ranging discussion, FAN is collaborating with the brand-new Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies, led by founding co-directors Tomás R. Jiménez, Ph.D. and Brian Lowery, Ph.D. (FAN ’23). Together, we are honored to welcome two acclaimed leaders as panelists: award-winning author Lerone A. Martin, Ph.D., Professor in Religious Studies and African & African American Studies at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and Vaughn Bryant, executive director of Chicago-based Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), an organization that provides services to heal communities at the highest risk for gun violence. MPI’s core specialties include the Metropolitan Peace Academy, behavioral health, workforce readiness, legal aid, and street outreach supervision.
Moderating the panel will be Natalie Y. Moore, an award-winning journalist covering segregation and inequality for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Her reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence and her work has been broadcast on the BBC and Marketplace, and on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The Billboard and The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

GBN LAX Mental Health
2024-05-04 11:00 | Glenbrook North High School Athletic Field, 2300 Shermer Rd, Northbrook, IL, 60062
Saturday, May 4th 2024 @ GLENBROOK NORTH H.S. ATHLETIC FIELD
BOYS VARSITY LACROSSE GAME @ 11AM
Glenbrook North H.S. vs. Stevenson H.S.
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS CEREMONY
& POMS PERFORMANCE
Participating Organizations:
CATCH: Community Action Together for Children’s Health
Cutting Edge Therapy
Family Service Center
GBN Mental Health Advisory Board
GBN Operation Snowball
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook
Morgan’s Message
Cheer on the Spartans in Competition
Learn About Mental Health Resources in our Community

[FAN] The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations David Montero
2024-05-06 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, May 6, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, a FAN webinar featuring David Montero, in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MonteroFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Mr. Montero and Prof. Dyson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America’s history of enslavement. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn’t complicit in the horrors of slavery. The truth, however, is that large Northern banks—including well-known institutions like Citibank, Bank of New York, and Bank of America—were critical to the financing of slavery; that they saw their fortunes rise dramatically from their involvement in the business of enslavement; and that white business leaders and their surrounding communities created enormous wealth from the enslavement and abuse of Black bodies.
Most white Southern enslavers were not rich—many were barely making ends meet—with Northern businesses benefitting the most from bondage-based profits. And some of the very Northerners who would be considered pro-Union during the Civil War were in fact anti-abolition, seeing the institution of slavery as being in their best financial interests, and only supporting the Union once they realized doing so would be good for business. It is a myth that the wealth generated from slavery vanished after the war. Rather, it helped finance the industrialization of the country, and became part of the bedrock of the growth of modern corporations, helping to transform America into a global economic behemoth.
In this remarkable book, Montero elegantly and meticulously details rampant Northern investment in slavery. He showcases exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed, calling for corporate reparations as he details contemporary movements to hold companies accountable for past atrocities.
Montero will be in conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and author of 25 books, including 7 New York Times bestsellers, among them Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Doug Bolton: Unraveling Parenting Myths
2024-05-06 19:00 | Attea Middle School, 2500 Chestnut Avenue,, Glenview, 60026, United States
In Celebration of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day The Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation Presents:
Doug Bolton, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of School Consultation for Formative Psychological Services:
Unraveling Parenting Myths
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[FAN] Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World R. Jisung Park, PH.D.
2024-05-08 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 7:00 PM, Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World, a FAN webinar featuring R. Jisung Park, Ph.D., in conversation with Robert Frank, Ph.D. (FAN ’22)
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ParkFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Slow Burn from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Park that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World, R. Jisung Park, Ph.D., an environmental and labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania, encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now.
Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Prof. Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility.
By investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly, but, without targeted interventions, less advantaged communities may not. Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects.
Prof. Park received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was an NSF Fellow, and master’s degrees in Environmental Change and Management (MSc) and Development Economics (MSc) from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He will be in conversation with Robert Frank, Ph.D. (FAN ’22), the H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Algebra of Wealth: Achieving Economic Security Scott Galloway
2024-05-13 12:30 | Zoom
Monday, May 13, 2024, 12:30 PM, The Algebra of Wealth: Achieving Economic Security, a FAN webinar featuring Scott Galloway, in conversation with Adam Alter, Ph.D. (FAN ’17, ‘23).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GallowayFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of The Algebra of Wealth to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our life spans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed no longer applies. It’s time for a new playbook.
In The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security, Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur, lays bare the rules of financial success in today’s economy. In his characteristic unvarnished, no-BS style, he explains what you need to know to better your chances for economic security no matter what.
Galloway has founded nine companies, including Prophet, RedEnvelope, L2, and Section, where he also teaches. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, and Adrift: America in 100 Charts. He has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, University of California/Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. He has won multiple Webby and Best Podcast awards, and his books have been translated into 28 languages. Across his Prof G and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy/No Malice newsletter, and his YouTube channel, Galloway reaches millions.
Galloway will be in conversation with Adam Alter, Ph.D. (FAN ’17, ’23), Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Prof. Alter is the author of multiple bestsellers, including Anatomy of a Breakthrough, Irresistible, and Drunk Tank Pink.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
2024-05-15 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, a FAN webinar featuring Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D., in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SuttonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Friction Project from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Sutton and Prof. Gerber that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page.
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. In The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, co-authors Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D. and Huggy Rao, Ph.D. draw from seven years of hands-on research to teach us how to become “friction fixers.”
The Friction Project unpacks how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. The authors provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their “help pyramid” shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams.
Prof. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and Stanford professor (emeritus) who studies, writes, teaches, and speaks about the interplay between people and organizations. He has written more than 200 academic and practical articles and is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books. He is a co-founder of the Stanford d. School, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Center for Work, Technology and Organization.
Prof. Sutton will be in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D. (FAN ’13, ’16), a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's a Good Thing) Sal Khan
2024-05-20 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, May 20, 2024, 7:00 PM, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing), a FAN webinar featuring Sal Khan, in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ‘16).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/KhanFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Brave New Words to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing), Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, and offers a road map for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world.
A pioneer in the field of education technology, Khan examines the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will revolutionize the way we learn and teach. For parents concerned about their children’s success, Khan illustrates how AI can personalize learning by adapting to each student’s individual pace and style, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and offering tailored support and feedback to complement traditional classroom instruction. Khan emphasizes that embracing AI in education is not about replacing human interaction but enhancing it with customized and accessible learning tools that encourage creative problem-solving skills and prepare students for an increasingly digital world.
But Brave New Words is not just about technology—it’s about what this technology means for our society, and the practical implications for administrators, guidance counselors, and hiring managers who can harness the power of AI in education and the workplace. Khan also delves into the ethical and social implications of AI and large language models, offering thoughtful insights into how we can use these tools to build a more accessible education system for students around the world.
Khan will be in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16), co-founder of Character Lab, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, founding faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, and author of the international bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.
2024-05-21 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 7:00 PM, Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters, a FAN webinar featuring Charan Ranganath, Ph.D., in conversation with Gloria Mark, Ph.D. (FAN ’24)
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RanganathFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Why We Remember from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Ranganath and Prof. Mark that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath, Ph.D. radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
As Prof. Ranganath shows, memory is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What’s more, when we work with the brain’s ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness.
Ranganath is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, he has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling, and studies of patients with memory disorders.
Prof. Ranganath will be in conversation with Gloria Mark, Ph.D. (FAN ’24), Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prof. Mark has been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012. Her recent book is Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity, named by The Globe and Mail as the #1 Best Business and Management book of 2023, and chosen as the Season 20 selection of the Next Big Idea Book Club.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D.
2024-05-23 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 7:00 PM, Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, a FAN webinar featuring Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D., in conversation with Carol Dweck, Ph.D. (FAN ’11, ‘14).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SGMFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Thinking with Your Hands to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
We all know people who talk with their hands—but do they know what they’re saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know we’re thinking.
In Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow, Ph.D., the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She shows us, for instance, how the height of our gestures can reveal unconscious bias, or how the shape of a student’s gestures can track their mastery of a new concept—even when they’re still giving wrong answers. She compels us to rethink everything from how we set child development milestones, to what’s admissible in a court of law, to whether Zoom is an adequate substitute for in-person conversation.
Prof. Goldin-Meadow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, received the William James award for lifetime achievement in basic research from the Association for Psychological Society, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Goldin-Meadow will be in conversation with Carol Dweck, Ph.D. (FAN ’11, ’14), the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of psychology. Prof. Dweck is the author of the widely-acclaimed bestseller Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, which has been translated into over 40 languages. Her pioneering research on mindsets has led to important innovations in schools and businesses worldwide, innovations that have increased creativity, productivity, inclusion, and equity.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery Lawrence Ingrassia
2024-05-28 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 PM, A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery, a FAN webinar featuring Lawrence Ingrassia, in conversation with Joanne Lipman.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/IngrassiaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of A Fatal Inheritance from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Mr. Ingrassia that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery, Lawrence Ingrassia weaves his moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, delivering an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller. Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. And while highly unusual, his family is not the only one to wonder whether their heartbreak is the result of unbelievable bad luck, or if there might be another explanation.
Through meticulous research and riveting storytelling, Ingrassia takes us from the 1960s—when Frederick Pei Li, MD and Joseph Fraumeni Jr., MD first met, not yet knowing that they would help make a groundbreaking discovery that would affect cancer patients for decades to come—to present day, as Ingrassia and countless others continue to unpack and build upon Li and Fraumeni’s initial discoveries, and to understand what this means for their families.
Ingrassia is an author and award-winning journalist, having worked as a senior editor at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times before retiring from newspapers in 2017. In his decades-long newspaper career, journalists directed by him won five Pulitzer Prizes – for national reporting, explanatory reporting, international reporting, and commentary – as well as Polk, Loeb and other awards.
Ingrassia will be in conversation with Joanne Lipman, a pioneering journalist and the bestselling author of Next! The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work and the No. 1 bestseller That’s What She Said: What Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, USA Today Network, Conde Nast Portfolio, and The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Journal, leading those organizations to six Pulitzer Prizes. She is also an on-air CNBC contributor and Yale University journalism lecturer.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Taste of Glenview 2024
2024-09-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Glenview Park Center, 2400 Chestnut Ave., Glenview, 60026, United States
Join Glenview Sunrise Rotary on Saturday, September 7, 2024 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Glenview Park Center!
Offering tastings from an array of local restaurants, you will sample cuisines from around the world for one reasonable price while supporting community activities right here at home. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.
In partnership with Glenview Firefighters Union #4186.
Find more information about Taste of Glenview and Glenview Sunrise Rotary at TasteofGlenview.org or purchase tickets directly at https://betterunite.com/tasteofglenview

[FAN] 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People David Yeager, Ph.D.
2024-09-09 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Monday, September 9, 2024, 7:00 PM, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave., Door 6, Evanston, IL 60201. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of 10 to 25 at the event, while supplies last.
No registration required.
“David Yeager has spent his career designing experiments that inspire students to aim higher, persist longer, and achieve more. His engaging, data-driven book is filled with practical insights to turn you into a better motivator.” – Adam Grant, Ph.D. (FAN ’14, ’16)
“10 to 25 offers actionable advice and real-life storytelling that’s beautifully written, comprehensive, and filled with warmth.” – Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16)
Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame. As a result, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.
Yeager explains how to adopt what he terms the mentor mindset, which is a leadership style attuned to young people’s need for status and respect. Anyone can adopt the mentor mindset by following a few highly effective and easy-to-learn practices such as validating young people’s perspectives (rather than dismissing them), asking them questions (rather than telling them what to do), being transparent about your beliefs and goals (rather than assuming that they will accurately guess your thoughts), and holding them to high standards (rather than coddling them). Yeager’s pioneering research and interventions have shown these practices reduce a wide variety of behavior problems, including school dropout, unhealthy eating, stress, purposelessness, mental health problems, and more.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded but not live streamed and will be available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People David Yeager, Ph.D.
2024-09-11 19:00 | Lake Forest High School, 1285 N. McKinley Rd, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, United States
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, Lake Forest High School, Raymond Moore Auditorium, 1285 N. McKinley Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of 10 to 25 at the event, while supplies last.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: www.bit.ly/YeagerLFHS
“David Yeager has spent his career designing experiments that inspire students to aim higher, persist longer, and achieve more. His engaging, data-driven book is filled with practical insights to turn you into a better motivator.” – Adam Grant, Ph.D. (FAN ’14, ’16)
“10 to 25 offers actionable advice and real-life storytelling that’s beautifully written, comprehensive, and filled with warmth.” – Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16)
Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame. As a result, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.
For this event, Yeager will first offer brief remarks and will then be in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D., superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois. A proponent of lifelong learning, Dr. Montgomery is also the Lead Superintendent for Cohort and Partner Connections with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), and co-chairs the AASA STEM Leadership Consortium.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will not be recorded or live streamed.

[MLB GLENVIEW] Rocktember Fest 2024
2024-09-14 18:00 - 23:00 | MLB Glenview, 1948-D Lehigh Road, Glenview, IL, United States
Support FSC along with other local worthy causes while having fun with the men of Making Lives Better of Glenview.
$80 per ticket…but check out the Pre-sale at $60 per ticket through August 31st!
Tickets Purchased: https://mlbglenview.org/products/rocktemberfest-2024

[FAN] Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math Shalinee Sharma
2024-09-16 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, September 16, 2024, 7:00 PM, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, a FAN webinar featuring Shalinee Sharma in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ‘16).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SharmaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Math Mind from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Sharma that will start immediately after the webinar. AND: FAN will gift a second copy of the book to After-Hours guests! Details on the webinar registration page.
In her new book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, Shalinee Sharma, one of the world’s top experts on math learning, shows how complex problem solving and puzzle solving, abstract and logical thinking, developing fluency with numbers, and cultivating persistence in math are crucial skills for success that can be taught to everyone and how math, far from being a dry, dull exercise, shares common ground with art and creativity. She also debunks the myths that prevent us from learning and enjoying math, with chapters dedicated to the three roadblocks that discourage adults and kids from learning.
Sharma is the CEO and cofounder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization behind the top-rated math-learning platform used by one in four elementary-school students and by one million middle-school students nationwide. In addition to her role at Zearn, she serves on the Braven board of directors, is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow, and serves as cochair of the Brown University Advisory Council for the College. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Brown University. A child of refugees, Sharma is passionate about universal access to an excellent education.
Sharma will be in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D. (FAN ’12, ’16), co-founder of Character Lab, the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, founding faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, and author of the international bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Combat Cyberbullying: Community Solutions/Upstanders Film
2024-09-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Northbrook Public Library, 1201 Cedar Ln, Northbrook, IL, 60062
Sponsored by the Village of Northbrook Community Commission, Community Action Together for Children’s Health (CATCH), Cook County United Against Hate, and the Northbrook Public Library.
Nearly half of U.S. teens have been bullied or harassed online: it’s a growing problem for our youth, their parents, and our schools. Join us for a screening of The Upstanders to learn more about how online hate and bullying impact young people – and how our community can combat it.
Produced by IMPACTFUL, this documentary film weaves personal anecdotes of kids and their families together with the expertise of educators, brain-scientists, and mental health professionals to inspire all of us to become “upstanders.” Following the screening, stay for a panel discussion featuring local mental health experts, educators, and students moderated by Cook County Commissioner Scott Britton.
Honor United Against Hate Week with a free screening of The Upstanders. Produced by IMPACTFUL, the documentary weaves personal anecdotes of kids and their families together with the expertise of educators, brain-scientists, and mental health professionals to inspire all of us to become “upstanders.”
Following the screening, stay for a panel discussion featuring local mental health experts, educators, and students moderated by Cook County Commissioner Scott Britton.

[FSC] Let's Talk* about Mental Health *in Mongolian
2024-09-23 18:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
“Let’s talk* about Mental Health” *in Mongolian

Yes, we are strong/resilient. But we are also human. Help normalize conversations about mental health. No one need suffer alone.

Join FSC Clinician Zola Mandakh to discuss:

-Why is it hard for so many Mongolian Americans to talk about mental health?
-What are the barriers to accessing care?

When: September 23, 6pm
Where: Zoom Webinar (https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0pceuvrTsvE9HY0gWBsPUqfxT59… or scan QR code)

Register now!

[FAN] Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D.
2024-09-25 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 7:00 PM, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, a FAN webinar featuring Anthiny Abraham Jack, Ph.D. in conversation with Jeff Selingo.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/JackFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Class Dismissed from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Jack and Selingo that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
“Jack powerfully illuminates the aspects of the student experience that exist beyond the gloss of the university brochure, showing how inequality reverberates both on and off campus and providing readers with specific frameworks for what equitable university policies could look like.” – Clint Smith, Ph.D. (FAN ’23)
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. In his new book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students and shares their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected.
Drawing on the firsthand experiences of students from all walks of life at elite colleges, Jack reveals the hidden and unequal worlds students navigated before and during the pandemic closures and upon their return to campus. He shows how COVID-19 exacerbated the very inequalities that universities ignored or failed to address long before campus closures. Jack examines how students dealt with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, how they navigated social unrest, and how they grappled with problems of race both on campus and off.
Jack will be in conversation with Jeff Selingo (FAN ’20, ’21, ’22), New York Times bestselling author of three books on education and the job market. For more than twenty-five years, Selingo’s in-depth reporting and storytelling have provided practical insight about the future of higher education and the workforce to university leaders, corporate executives, as well as students and parents.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.
2024-09-26 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 7:00 PM, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, a FAN webinar featuring Jamil Zaki, Ph.D. (FAN ’19) in conversation with Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ZakiFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Hope for Cynics to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
“With rigorous scientific research and fascinating narratives, Zaki challenges the belief that humanity is inherent selfish, and advocates, instead, for a ‘hopeful skepticism’ that creates a better world.” – Charles Duhigg (FAN ’24)
In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties all think human virtue is evaporating. Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, it is misplaced. Dozens of studies find that people fail to realize how kind, generous, and open-minded others really are. Cynical thinking deepens social problems: when we expect the worst in people, we often bring it out of them.
We don’t have to remain stuck in this cynicism trap. Through science and storytelling, Jamil Zaki, Ph.D. (FAN ’19), director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory and author of the new book Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, imparts the secret for beating back cynicism: hopeful skepticism—thinking critically about people and our problems, while honoring and encouraging our strengths. Far from being naïve, hopeful skepticism is a precise way of understanding others that can rebalance our view of human nature and help us build the world we truly want.
Zaki will be in conversation with Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, as well as a research associate at the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. His books for non-scientists include Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping; Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst; and most recently, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

NAMI CCNS NAMI Walks
2024-09-28 10:00 | Gallery Park, 2412 W Lake Ave, Glenview, 60026
Join NAMI CCNS on September 28, 2024, at Gallery Park in Glenview for their annual walk to raise awareness and funds for mental health programs in our community!

Learn more here: https://www.namiwalks.org/event/ccns

[FAN] Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net Jessica Calarco, Ph.D
2024-09-30 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, September 30, 2024, 7:00 PM, Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, a FAN webinar featuring Jessica Calarco, Ph.D. in conversation with Heidi Stevens.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CalarcoFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Holding It Together from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Calarco and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
“Holding It Together is both an authoritative indictment of current and past US social policy and an empathetic, unsettling portrait of American motherhood.” – Jennifer Breheny Wallace, FAN ‘23
America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed sociologist Jessica Calarco, Ph.D. lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.
Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net draws on five years of research in which Calarco, a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, surveyed over 4,000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women’s labor as the reason we’ve gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don’t need a net.
Calarco’s research focuses on education, families, and health decision-making. She is interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic, racial, and gender inequalities in these settings, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering these mechanisms.
Calarco will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, and creative director for Parent Nation, an initiative of the TMW Center. Prior to joining TMW, Stevens worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She maintains a weekly nationally syndicated column. Stevens also serves as a FAN board member.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts Oliver Burkeman
2024-10-07 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, October 7, 2024, 7:00 PM, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, a FAN webinar featuring Oliver Burkeman in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18, ’22).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/BurkemanFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away hundreds of copies of Meditations for Mortals to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
“I follow Oliver Burkeman’s personal, literary, and journalistic adventures into wisdom with admiration and exhilaration. Now he brings us a ‘retreat of the mind’ in a very special book. We should all read this, preferably in the company of others―for the sake of our aching world as well as the state of our souls.” — Krista Tippett (FAN ’16)
Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts offers a powerful new way to act on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly.
How can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? How do we shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can “get on top of everything”? Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman, the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, explores a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice―and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.
To be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.
Burkeman will be in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18, ’22), the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior, including The Power of Regret; When; To Sell Is Human; Drive; and A Whole New Mind.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future
2024-10-09 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:00 PM, Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, a FAN webinar featuring Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CCSDFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Assembling Tomorrow from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Carter, Doorley, and Gerber that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
We live in an era of runaway design where the possibilities of new technologies—like generative AI and synthetic biology—are near limitless, but so are the perils. Even the most well-intentioned and transformative innovations can go haywire, jeopardizing our work and our world. In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, a provocative and deeply hopeful new manifesto, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley, the Academic and Creative Directors at the Stanford d.school, pair speculative fiction with practical guidance to show how to build a world worth living in rather than one that tears us apart.
Assembling Tomorrow grapples with the future of technology, ecology, biology, work, politics, food, parenting, interpersonal relationships, and more. From the effects of social media to the uncertainty of AI and the consequences of climate change, the outcomes of our creations ripple across our lives, and we are now at a critical moment where we must consider: What does a thriving future look like? How could we design it thoughtfully and creatively if we were tasked with doing so? The book is poised to redefine the discourse on design and innovation, offering a roadmap for creating a future that we can all proudly inhabit.
Assembling Tomorrow is the highly anticipated capstone for a 12-book series on design from Stanford’s d.school. Over the past few years, FAN has hosted events in support of d.school books Creative Acts for Curious People, You Need a Manifesto and Design for Belonging.
To be read either as a four-week “retreat of the mind” or devoured in one or two sittings, Meditations for Mortals will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.
Co-authors Carter, a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the d.school, and Doorley, a writer, designer, and the creative director at the d.school, will be in conversation with Liz Gerber, Ph.D. (FAN ’13, ’16), a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America.
This event is suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Cook County United Against Hate and The Glenview Public Library: Waking In Oak Creek
2024-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Glenview Public Library, 1930 Glenview Road, Glenview, IL, 60025
Cook County United Against Hate and The Glenview Public Library are sponsoring a screening and discussion of the documentary Waking In Oak Creek on October 15th.
“As the Sikh community in Oak Creek, Wisconsin prepares for Sunday prayers, a deadly hate attack shatters their lives, but not their resilience.”
All are welcome.
Waking in Oak Creek Documentary
Tuesday, October 15, 7:00-8:30 pm.
Glenview Library, 1930 Glenview Road.
RSVP- tinyurl.com/WakinginOakCreekGPL

2024 Chrysalis Luncheon
2024-10-17 11:00 - 13:30 | Valley Lo Club, 2200 Tanglewood Dr., Glenview, IL, 60025, United States
A Celebration of Community and Those Who are Transforming Mental Health!
Join us for our third annual luncheon to honor those who are making great impacts on mental health efforts in our area. For the last two years, we have come together to honor and celebrate the collective, collaborative, and critical work that is happening in our communities each day to provide needed tools, resources, and counseling access for the many who have been affected by the cumulative mental stressors of these past several years. We will proudly recognize The Papanicholas Family as our 2025 Heart of the Family Honoree.
Tickets can be purchased here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/ChrysalisLuncheonRegistration2024
