Family Service Center (FSC)

[FAN] Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction Gloria Mark, Ph.D.
2024-02-13 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 7:00 PM, Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction, a FAN webinar featuring Gloria Mark, Ph.D., in conversation with David Epstein (FAN “16 and ’20)
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MarkFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Attention Span from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Mark that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we’re interrupted by others. In Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity, psychologist Gloria Mark, Ph.D. reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention.
Based on decades of original research in what Prof. Mark calls “living laboratories,” where she studies technology use in people’s real-world environments, Attention Span not only presents the science of exactly how short our attention spans have become, how much we’re interrupted and how much stress that causes us, but also how we can gain control of our attention and achieve wellbeing.
Prof. Mark is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine, and has been a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research since 2012. For over two decades she has studied the impact of digital media on people’s lives, focusing on how using our devices affects our multitasking, distractions, mood, and behavior. She has also been a Fulbright scholar and has received the prestigious NSF Career grant.
Prof. Mark will be in conversation with David Epstein (FAN ’16 and ’20), a science writer and author of the New York Times bestsellers Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and The Sports Gene. Epstein was previously an investigative reporter at ProPublica, and prior to that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. His two TED Talks on human development and performance have been viewed 12 million times.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do Suneel Gupta
2024-02-12 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, February 12, 2024, 7:00 PM, Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do, a FAN webinar featuring Suneel Gupta, in conversation with Debbie Millman.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GuptaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Everyday Dharma from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Gupta and Millman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
We’ve been conditioned, from an early age, to believe that one day we’ll reach a moment of “arrival.” But no matter how much we achieve or acquire we still don’t feel as satisfied or as fulfilled as we thought we would be. Exhausted, we become burned out and cynical, questioning the purpose of it all.
An expert on happiness and work, Suneel Gupta argues that for too long society has been fixated on the Future of Work and ignored the Future of Worth. We’ve compartmentalized work and well-being and ignored the fact that both are essential for sustained success. We’ve assumed that outer success leads to inner well-being–despite history showing us that this has never been the case. In his new book Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do, Gupta helps us break this negative cycle. A captivating storyteller, he weaves personal stories, history, science, Eastern philosophy, and Western modalities in this engaging, enlightening, and prescriptive book.
As the founding CEO of RISE and a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School, Gupta travels the world, deconstructing how extraordinary performers overcome their most difficult moments. His work has been featured by outlets including Vanity Fair, Fast Company, and the New York Times. He will be in conversation with Debbie Millman, host of the Webby Award-winning podcast Design Matters, one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world; chair of the first-ever Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City; co-owner and editorial director of PrintMag.com; and the author of seven books on design and branding.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Aliza Pressman, Ph.D.
2024-02-08 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 7:00 PM, The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans, a FAN webinar featuring Aliza Pressman, Ph.D., in conversation with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/PressmanFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The 5 Principles of Parenting from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Pressman that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like we’ve got to get everything exactly right the first time, Aliza Pressman, Ph.D. is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need—and the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of her hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all in her new book, The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans. She offers a handful of strategies: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair.
No matter how you were raised, how your coparent behaves, or how your kids have been parented up until now, you can start using The 5 Principles of Parenting to chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned with your own values and with your children’s unique temperaments. Whether you’re in the trenches with a toddler or a tween, it’s never too late to learn to use these 5 principles to reparent yourself and help your kids build the resilience they need to thrive.
Dr. Pressman is an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is cofounding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. She will be in conversation with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., author of The Bottom Line for Baby and co-author, with Dan Siegel, MD (FAN ’16) of The Power of Showing Up, The Yes Brain, and two New York Times bestsellers: The Whole-Brained Child and No-Drama Discipline.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Helping Our Boys Pursue Belonging and Purpose John Duffy, Psy.D.
2024-02-06 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 7:00 PM, Helping Our Boys Pursue Belonging and Purpose, a FAN webinar featuring John Duffy, Psy.D. and Shaka A. Rawls, in conversation with Heidi Stevens.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/DRFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Duffy’s new book Rescuing Our Sons from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Duffy, Rawls, and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Combining different perspectives and populations, John Duffy, Psy.D. (FAN ’20), a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Chicago area specializing in work with adolescents, young adults, and their parents, and Shaka A. Rawls, the principal at Leo High School in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side, will discuss their strategies for helping teenage boys navigate a world that often feels hostile, hard to fit into, and joyless. Duffy and Rawls will delve into a useful set of solutions for parents, educators, clinicians, and anyone with a stake in helping young men feel invested in—and excited about—their own futures.
Duffy’s brand-new book is Rescuing Our Sons: 8 Solutions to Our Crisis of Disaffected Teen Boys. He has written and contributed to articles for CNN, the Washington Post, The New York Times, Your Teen, and other media outlets. He has shared his expertise through frequent appearances on CNN, the Today show, The Morning Blend, and others. On radio, he is a regularly appearing expert on WGN, WLS and NPR.
Rawls has worked in urban education for more than 20 years as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal. Before coming to Leo, he worked for Chicago Public Schools, his efforts focused on the challenges facing public and charter high schools in some of Chicago’s most disadvantaged urban communities. As the first African-American alumnus to serve as principal in Leo’s 96-year history, Rawls has overseen a 65% increase in enrollment over the last five years, as well as a 21% improvement in test scores. Leo has achieved a 100% graduation rate among its seniors in each year of Rawls’ 7-year tenure.
Duffy and Rawls will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. 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] HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience Ayesha Rascoe
2024-02-01 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:00 PM, HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, a FAN webinar featuring Ayesha Rascoe, in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RascoeFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of HBCU Made from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Rascoe and Moore that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, edited and with a foreword by Ayesha Rascoe, host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, is a joyous and moving collection that includes a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, Branford Marsalis, and Roy Wood Jr., along with other prominent and up-and-coming alumni. HBCU Made beautifully pulls back the curtain on the lived experience of prominent graduates while also shining a bright light on the significant contribution that HBCUs have made to American culture.
HBCU Made, the first book of its kind to feature famous alumni sharing direct accounts of their Black college experience, presents a collection of vulnerable and candid personal essays about the schools that nurtured, challenged, and educated them. From political figures to respected writers, from outstanding dancers to prominent performers, this array of voices describe why they chose their HBCU, their first days on campus, the excitement of homecoming, and the relief of finally feeling understood.
Rascoe, a proud alum of Howard University, will be in conversation with Natalie Y. Moore, a fellow Howard alum and an award-winning journalist covering segregation and inequality for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Moore is the author of The Billboard, a play about abortion, and the acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (2016). Ms. Moore’s 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.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Screenagers: Under the Influence
2024-02-01 18:00 - 20:30 | Youth Services, 3080 West Lake Avenue, Glenview, IL, United States
Please note if you have not yet registered, this event is now wait list only. If you sign up for the wait list, you will be notified if someone cancels their reservation. Wait list folks will have 6 hours to register before it goes to the next person, if there is a cancellation.
Thursday, February 1st, 6:30 pm Movie | 7:30 PM Q & A with panelists
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook | 3080 West Lake Avenue, Glenview
Moderators:
Dr. Lara Cummings
Director of Student Support
Glenbrook High School District 225
Dr. Renee Z. Dominguez
Co-Executive Director
Family Service Center
Join the Knowledge Empowers Youth (KEY) Coalition and Glenview Northbrook Coalition for Youth (GNCY) for a screening of the film Screenagers: Under the Influence, and hear from local experts and professionals on the issue of youth substance use, social media, tips for teens and parents, and more. This event will be hosted at Youth Services of Glenview Northbrook on Feb 1st, 2024 with doors opening at 6pm CST.
Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age, the third feature documentary in the Screenagers trilogy, delves into how the tech revolution has reshaped adolescence and its effects on substance use. The film debunks myths and depicts strategies parents and schools can use to encourage healthy decision-making, support teen mental health, set limits, and create healthy home environments. The film also includes many ways young people are using their wisdom and strength to help each other and themselves through this complicated terrain around substance use. Check out the trailer here: https://www.screenagersmovie.com/about-screenagers-under-the-influence
Following the documentary screening we will be hosting a panel discussion featuring local experts and professionals in the field of youth mental health, substance use prevention and treatment. The discussion will provide all attendees with the opportunity to hear from and ask questions about what our youth are facing and how we as a family and/or community can support their health, development and well-being.
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Notes from the host:
Translators will be provided for the program upon request in Spanish and Mongolian.
PLEASE RSVP SO WE CAN PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND HAVE ENOUGH SEATING FOR ALL ATTENDEES! THANK YOU!
This event is appropriate for ages 12+, and childcare will be available. Please indicate your need for childcare when completing the order form.
This material was developed under grant #NH28CE003042 from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies and opinions expressed by the Glenview Northbrook Coalition for Youth are those of its members and do not necessarily reflect those of ONDCP, CDC, or HHS.

[FAN] Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World Todd Rogers, Ph.D.
2024-01-30 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 7:00 PM, Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World, a FAN webinar featuring Todd Rogers, Ph.D., in conversation with Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RogersFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Writing for Busy Readers from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Rogers that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Busy readers routinely decide how valuable a message is without actually reading it. In one recent survey, people reported skimming nearly 40 percent of their emails and 20 percent of their texts. We may have been taught the fundamentals of writing well in school—but how do we write effectively in this current hyperinteractive environment? Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers, Ph.D. and Jessica Lasky-Fink, Ph.D. is both an essential guide of practical writing advice and a fascinating adventure through the science of why these strategies work.
The book begins by unpacking the science and psychology of how (busy) people read, then details six research-backed principles for effective writing. Along the way, the authors provide intriguing insights drawn from the leading scientific research and hundreds of their own original, randomized experiments on the topic. The principles for effective writing are rooted in the universals of human nature: the mind’s limited attention and focus, the rules of thumb it uses, the behaviors of busy people, and the ways that we give and receive information through written messages.
Rogers is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a behavioral scientist specializing in the science of effective communication. He is the faculty director of the Behavioral Insights Group, faculty chair of the executive education program Behavioral Insights and Public Policy, senior scientist at ideas42, and academic advisor at the Behavioral Insights Team. Rogers 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.

Parenting with the Brain in Mind
2024-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Springman Middle School, 2701 Central Rd, Glenview, United States
Parents of children, adolescents, and teens will learn strategies to help navigate behavioral and communication issues within their families.
This program is free of charge and will be presented in Mongolian.
Monday, January 29, 2024
7-8:30pm | Springman Wildcat Commons 2701 Central Rd, Glenview [Use Door K]
Onsite Childcare Provided
This program is made possible through FSC, D34 & D225 BPACs and Northfield Township. All are welcome.

[FAN] Think Faster, Talk Smarter Matt Abrahams
2024-01-24 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 7:00 PM, Think Faster, Talk Smarter, a FAN webinar featuring Matt Abrahams, in conversation with Kim Scott.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AbrahamsFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Think Faster, Talk Smarter from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Abrahams and Scott that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot, Stanford lecturer, podcast host, and communication expert Matt Abrahams provides tangible, actionable skills to help even the most anxious of speakers succeed when speaking spontaneously. Abrahams provides science-based strategies for managing anxiety, responding to the mood of the room, and making content concise, relevant, compelling, and memorable. Drawing on stories from his clients and students, he offers best practices for navigating Q&A sessions, shining in job interviews, providing effective feedback, making small talk, fixing faux pas, persuading others, and handling other impromptu speaking tasks.
Abrahams has helped countless presenters improve and hone their communication, including some who have delivered IPO road shows as well as TED, World Economic Forum, and Nobel Prize presentations. Whether it’s a prospective client asking you an unexpected question during a meeting or all eyes turning to you at a dinner party, you’ll know how to navigate the situation like a pro and bring out your very best.
Abrahams will be in conversation with Kim Scott, the co-founder of Radical Candor, a company to help leaders build more radically candid organizations. She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better. Scott was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Mirrored Door: What Blocks Women's Careers Ellen Connelly Taaffe
2024-01-23 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Mirrored Door: What Blocks Women’s Careers, a FAN webinar featuring Ellen Taaffe, in conversation with Deepa Purushothaman.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/TaaffeFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Mirrored Door from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Taaffe that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
At some point in their careers, many women encounter the “mirrored door” ― the place where, when presented with opportunities, they reflect inward and hesitate, deem they’re not ready or worthy enough to move forward, whether that is to raise their hands or go for the next role. But there is a way to overcome the gendered expectations that girls and women internalize over our lifetimes that create a hidden barrier that keeps them from reaching their full potential.
In her new book The Mirrored Door: Break Through the Hidden Barrier that Locks Successful Women in Place, Ellen Connelly Taaffe, clinical associate professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, draws on research, stories from her own career, and those of her students and the mid-late career women she has coached. She explains why the five perils of success ― preparing to perfection, being eager to please, trying to fit the mold, pushing too hard, and patiently performing and expecting rewards to follow ― get women to a certain level, and then may prevent them taking the next step in their careers as expectations rise. She offers a new, empowering framework for navigating the challenges of the workplace with more awareness and expertise.
Taaffe is the director of Women’s Leadership Programming at Kellogg and serves as a director on several boards. She will be in conversation with Deepa Purushothaman, a former senior executive at Deloitte and author, speaker, and founder of multiple businesses. Her debut book, The First, The Few, The Only, was published to international acclaim in 2022. She recently founded the re.write, an unconventional think tank advancing a new story of work. She is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Anxiety 101 NAMI CCNS Free Webinar with FSC's Dr. Dominguez
2024-01-17 19:00 | Zoom
Anxiety is one of the most commonly experienced mental health challenges in America today. While it is extremely prevalent and can be highly debilitating, it is also one of the most treatment responsive mental health conditions.
This webinar, Anxiety 101, will frame anxiety in its evolutionarily adaptive context, break down its various components (i.e., physiological, cognitive, and behavioral), highlight ways in which it shows up in everyday life, and provide practical considerations for adaptively coping with it.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GbjBrlZUQnyAlgLLgc7hSg#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

[FAN] Strategies to Reduce Risk and Increase Resilience in LGBTQ+ Youth Melissa Blitz, LCPC
2024-01-17 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 7:00 PM, Strategies to Reduce Risk and Increase Resilience in LGBTQ+ Youth, a FAN webinar featuring Melissa Blitz, LCPC and Joe Serio, LCPS, in conversation with Tiffany Myers, LCSW.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/LGBTQFANWebinar
FAN has invited Melissa Blitz, LCPC (she/her) and Joe Serio, LCPC (he/his) of Compass Health Center to create a program addressing the complex issues that LGBTQ+ youth face. Our many school and mental health partners ask us for content that would be helpful to students, parents, educators, and clinicians.
In this webinar, Blitz and Serio will delve into specific risk factors affecting this demographic and offer insights into personal, communal, and societal hurdles. They will explore pathways to active allyship, shedding light on opportunities for advocacy. Additionally, they will emphasize the importance of increasing awareness of personal and societal biases, addressing overt, subconscious, and implicit prejudices.
Attendees will leave with practical strategies to empower and build resilience in LGBTQ+ youth, spanning various crucial settings such as home, intrapersonal relationships, school, work, social environments, and broader political and societal contexts. It is crucial to provide valuable insights into both existing and potential opportunities for advocacy efforts on behalf of LGBTQ+ youth.
Blitz is the associate director of Compass’ Center of Excellence for Adult Mood & Anxiety programming, and Serio is the Chief Clinical Quality Officer there. They will be in conversation with Tiffany Myers (she/her), a licensed clinical social worker and the social work department chair at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. Myers has 30 years of experience working in mental health and has spent the last 27 years counseling and learning from her students in a high school setting.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships Scott Rick, Ph.D.
2024-01-16 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 7:00 PM, Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships, a FAN webinar featuring Scott Rick, Ph.D., in conversation with Olga Khazan.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RickFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Tightwads and Spendthrifts from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Rick and Khazan that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Have you ever asked yourself “What if I’m a tightwad and my significant other is a spendthrift?” or vice versa? Scott Rick, Ph.D., a behavioral scientist and associate professor of marketing at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, knows that many people do. He also knows that the financial aspects of an intimate relationship can become a money minefield if couples try to navigate it without first discussing all of the financial issues between them, especially if those two people have different approaches to spending.
Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships is a science-based guide to understanding and transforming how we manage money, both on our own and in relationships. Building on his original research, and surveying a vast body of interdisciplinary work, Tightwads and Spendthrifts will help you understand your own financial psychology and how it plays out in your relationships. Can tightwads and spendthrifts live together in harmony? Rick says “yes,” but not without first asking hard questions about whose opinion should count most when making a financial decision. Once the issues have been aired, he tells readers how to create a game plan for navigating financial decision making that both tightwads and spendthrifts can rely on for a happy life together.
Rick will be in conversation with Olga Khazan, a staff writer for The Atlantic who is working on a book about personality change. Her first book, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, came out in 2020.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia Kate Manne, Ph.D.
2024-01-11 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, a FAN webinar featuring
Kaye Manne, Ph.D., in conversation with Roxane Gay, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ManneFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Unshrinking from FAN’s partner
bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Manne that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In her latest book Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, Kate Manne, Ph.D., an associate professor of
philosophy at Cornell University, delivers a definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal
experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to
combat it.
Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why
fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. She examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us
to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it
intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and
poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.
In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of
who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution
is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us and
remake the world to accommodate people of every size.
Manne will be in conversation with Roxane Gay, Ph.D. a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times
and the acclaimed bestselling author of Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger. Gay is also the author
of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane
Gay Agenda.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
2023-12-12 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 7:00 PM, A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence, a FAN webinar
featuring Mary Pipher, Ph.D., in conversation with Nancy Burgoyne, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/PipherFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of A Light in Life from FAN’s partner bookseller
The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Drs. Pipher and Burgoyne that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Mary Pipher, Ph.D. has been seen as the “cultural therapist” of a generation, and with good reason. Her work
has addressed a wide range of issues from environmental concerns to the struggles of refugees. But she is
perhaps best known for her work focusing on women. From her #1 New York Times bestseller, Reviving Ophelia,
which helped explain the unique challenges faced by adolescent girls, to her most recent New York Times
bestseller, Women Rowing North, which explores the experiences faced by women as they grow older, Pipher
has been a source of comfort and strength for women at all stages of life.
Pipher’s new memoir in essays, A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence offers wisdom, hope, and
insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in
women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward in A Life in Light to what
shaped her as a woman, one who has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the
light. “Resilience is the ability to find light in dark times,” offers Pipher, “We build it by our attitudes, efforts, and
coping skills. All our lives we face crises that require us to grow. Struggle defines and builds us.”
Pipher will be in conversation with Nancy Burgoyne, Ph.D. (FAN ’21), chief clinical officer at The Family
Institute at Northwestern University. She is a faculty member in the Master of Science in Marriage and
Family Therapy program, a licensed clinical psychologist and a family therapist who abides by the scientist-practitioner
model. Dr. Burgoyne has more than 30 years of experience providing direct service to clients,
and more than 20 years training, leading, and learning alongside her fellow clinicians.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] On Ambition Maggie Smith and Rainesford Stauffer
2023-12-06 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7:00 PM, On Ambition, a FAN webinar featuring Maggie Smith and
Rainesford Stauffer.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AmbitionFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Smith’s You Could Make This Place Beautiful
and/or Stauffer’s All the Gold Stars from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTERHOURS
event hosted by Smith and Stauffer that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar
registration page.
What does it mean to own one’s ambition? What does it take to reimagine how we strive, amid burnout,
pressure, and profound shifts across one’s career, life, and wants? Join Maggie Smith (FAN ’20), poet and New
York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and Rainesford Stauffer (FAN ’21),
journalist and author of All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, for a conversation
on ambition. From norms of ambition that deem some “too ambitious,” to what kind of ambition and work are
celebrated, this conversation will focus on how ambition plays out across personal, professional, and creative
lives–how we shape it, and how it shapes us. Over the course of their discussion, Smith and Stauffer will
explore ambition, work, and identity, and how those themes come through in their work.
Smith’s other books include Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the
national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of a
Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has also received several Individual
Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and
fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been
widely published, appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Best
American Poetry, and more.
Stauffer is an author, journalist, speaker, and Kentuckian. She’s the Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue
and wrote a column for Catapult, Gold Stars. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Scalawag,
DAME Magazine, Vox, and other publications. She is the author of An Ordinary Age and is a 2022-2023
Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It's Time to Heal But You're Not Sure You Want To Kelly Cervante
2023-11-28 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:00 PM, Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It’s Time to Heal But
You’re Not Sure You Want To, a FAN webinar featuring Kelly Cervantes, in conversation with Christie Tate.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/CervantesFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Normal Broken from FAN’s partner bookseller
The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cervantes and Tate that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
None of us make it through life without experiencing loss that leaves us feeling broken. That’s what makes grief
so normal. In Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It’s Time to Heal But You’re Not Sure You Want
To, award-winning writer and speaker Kelly Cervantes isn’t trying to tell you what to do, how to feel, or the right
way to heal. She’s also not flinging sunny thoughts, vibes, and prayers at you. After losing her daughter to
epilepsy, she knows that grief is many things. It’s weird. It sucks. It’s all-encompassing. Something everyone will
have to deal with. But never linear. Just as what we are grieving varies, so do our journeys to process it.
Normal Broken was born out of this desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand,
or maybe to just sit in the dark with them. To acknowledge your brokenness and to feel broken together—never
pressured to “move on” or “think positive.”
Cervantes is an advocate best known for her blog Inchstones, where she shared the stress, love, and joy that
came with parenting her medically complex daughter, Adelaide. Since Adelaide’s passing, Kelly has continued to
write candidly about her arduous and, at times, contradictory grief journey. She is the current board chair for the
nonprofit CURE Epilepsy and hosts their biweekly podcast, Seizing Life, where she interviews scientists, doctors,
and individuals affected by epilepsy. Kelly currently resides in Maplewood, NJ, with her husband, Miguel
Cervantes (currently starring in Hamilton on Broadway), four children, and two dogs.
Cervantes will be in conversation with Christie Tate (FAN ’21), a Chicago-based writer and essayist, Tate is the
New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My
Life and the 2023 memoir B.F.F.– A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive Alexandra H. Solomon, Ph.D.
2023-11-27 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 27, 2023, 7:00 PM, Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help
Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive, a FAN webinar featuring Alexandra H. Solomon, Ph.D., in
conversation with Esther Perel.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/Love365FANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Love Every Day from FAN’s partner bookseller
The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Dr. Solomon 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 Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and
Thrive, relationship expert and best-selling author Alexandra H. Solomon, Ph.D. (FAN ’20) offers 365 daily
practices to cultivate a curious and compassionate approach to your relationships with others, as well as your
relationship with yourself. Inspired by her popular Instagram feed and grounded in her life-changing approach to
relationships―Relational Self-Awareness―each practice in Love Every Day will help you understand the impact
of your past (and your partner’s past), get your needs met, enhance intimacy, improve communication, and
address relationship problems.
Dr. Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and she is on
faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, where she teaches the
internationally renowned course “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101.” She is the author of
two best-selling books, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back. Dr. Solomon is frequently asked to talk about
relationships with media outlets like The Today Show, O Magazine, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Scientific
American. She is the host of the weekly podcast Reimagining Love.
Dr. Solomon will be in conversation with psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel,
recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Her celebrated TED
talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking
Erotic Intelligence has been translated into more than 30 languages. Perel’s newest book is the New York
Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. She is also the host of the hit podcast Where Should
We Begin?
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought
2023-11-16 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7:00 PM, The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are,
a FAN webinar featuring Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, in conversation with Theaster Gates.
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of The Upcycled Self to randomly selected Zoom
attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/TrotterFANWebinar

Today Tariq Trotter—better known as Black Thought—is the platinum-selling, three-time Grammy-winning cofounder
of The Roots, and one of the most exhilaratingly skillful and profound rappers the culture has ever
produced. But his story begins with a tragedy: as a child, Trotter burned down his family’s home. The years that
followed are the story of a life snatched from the flames, forged in fire.
In The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are, Trotter doesn’t just narrate a riveting and
moving portrait of the artist as a young man but gives readers a courageous model of what it means to live an
examined life. In vivid vignettes, he tells the dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped
him—community, friends, art, and family—each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma, and loss.
But beyond offering the compellingly poetic account of one artist’s creative and emotional origins, Trotter
explores the vital questions we all must confront about our formative years: How can we see the story of our
young lives clearly? How do we use that story to understand who we’ve become? How do we forgive the people
who loved and hurt us? How do we rediscover and honor our first dreams? And finally, what do we take forward,
what do we pass on, what do we leave behind? This is the beautifully bluesy story of a boy genius’s coming of
age that illuminates the redemptive power of the upcycle.
Trotter is one of the most powerful voices in hip-hop and the winner of three NAACP Image Awards and leads the
house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, joined by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (FAN ’21), cofounder
of The Roots.
Trotter will be in conversation with artist, archivist, and curator Theaster Gates, a professor at the University of
Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. Prof. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory
and land development, sculpture, and performance.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Margaret Renkl
2023-11-14 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7:00 PM, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, a FAN webinar featuring
Margaret Renkl, in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott.
Register: www.bit.ly/RenklFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Comfort of Crows from FAN’s partner
bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Renkl and Philpott that will
start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, award-winning bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents a
literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a
year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of
community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used
in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief
over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.
Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home
during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations
past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And
the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from
us. For, as Renkl writes, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and
deepest cracks of the hidden world.”
With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and
deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.
Renkl lives in Nashville and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear
weekly. She will be in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, the nationally bestselling author of I Miss You
When I Blink and the memoir Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives, which won the Southern Book
Prize and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and one of NPR’s “Favorite Books of
2022.”
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education Stephanie Land
2023-11-13 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 13, 2023, 7:00 PM, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, a
FAN webinar featuring Stephanie Land, in conversation with Molly Smith Metzler.
Register: www.bit.ly/LandFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Class to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details
on the webinar registration page.
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come.
Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called “an eye-opening
journey into the lives of the working poor” (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which
was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021. Land’s escape out
of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.
Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class: A
Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and
pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough
money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the
demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally
graduating in her mid-thirties.
Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with
personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college?
And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these
questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a
mother’s triumph against all odds.
Land will be in conversation with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Molly Smith Metzler, the creator,
writer, and executive producer of the Netflix limited series Maid, which earned her an Emmy nomination for
Outstanding Writing of a Limited Series. Maid was nominated for three Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe
Awards, two Critics Choice Awards, two TCA Awards, The Humanitas Prize, and more.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections Ben Wildavsky
2023-11-09 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7:00 PM, The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and
Connections, a FAN webinar featuring Ben Wildavsky, in conversation with Sara Allan.

Register: www.bit.ly/WildavskyFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Career Arts from FAN’s partner bookseller
The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Wildavsky and Allan that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which
is why they need a range of essential skills. Ben Wildavsky’s new book The Career Arts: Making the Most of
College, Credentials, and Connections provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that
there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills. Wildavsky cuts through the
noise and anxiety surrounding this issue to offer sensible, clear-eyed guidance for anyone who is making
decisions about education and career preparation with a view to getting ahead in the workforce.
Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Wildavsky shares the
most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills,
taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits, and preparing for the world as it is, not as you wish it
could be. He explains why college remains the gold standard of credentials and presents the most promising
high-quality supplements and alternatives to college that can help learners combine general and job-specific
skills. He shows how building social capital is also critical to success, particularly for disadvantaged students.
Wildavsky is a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. He is
the award-winning author of The Great Brain Race and coeditor of Reinventing Higher Education and
Measuring Success. He is the host and coproducer of the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast.
Wildavsky will be in conversation with Sara Allan, the incoming president of the Valhalla Foundation. Before
Valhalla, Allan was the director in the U.S. Education Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She
joined the foundation in 2011.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D., ABPP
2023-11-08 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7:00 PM, Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health, a FAN webinar
featuring Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D. and Eva Telzer, Ph.D., in conversation with Claudia Welke, MD.

REGISTER: www.bit.ly/PTFANWebinar

FAN is excited to welcome back Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D., ABPP (FAN ’17), the Chief Science Officer of the
American Psychological Association, and the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prinstein and his colleague Eva Telzer, Ph.D.,
a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC, are the co-directors of Winston National Center on
Technology Use, Brain, and Psychological Development.
For this event, Profs. Prinstein and Telzer will deconstruct the psychological science on youth technology and
social media use. Using theories and methods from developmental cognitive neuroscience and developmental
psychopathology, their work seeks to understand how adolescents’ social media use may confer benefits to
psychological, social, and neural development. They examine topics such as social media addiction,
associations with mood, digital stress, the effects of social media on lost social opportunities, peer influence
processes via social media, and the way social media use may be associated with brain development in
adolescence.
Prinstein’s research has examined interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health risk behaviors
among adolescents, with a specific focus on the unique role of off- and on-line peer relationships in the
developmental psychopathology of depression and self-injury. Telzer’s research examines how social and
cultural processes shape adolescent brain development, with a focus on both prosocial and risk-taking
behaviors, family and peer relationships, and the role of social media in youth’s lives.
Prinstein and Telzer will be in conversation with Claudia Welke, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist
and the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World Devorah Heitner, Ph.D.
2023-11-06 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, November 6, 2023, 7:00 PM (on Zoom)
Register: http://www.bit.ly/HeitnerFANSponsor
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Growing Up in Public from FAN’s partner
bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Heitner and Stevens that will
start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. Devorah Heitner,
Ph.D.’s new book Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World shows parents how to help tweens
and teens navigate boundaries, identity, privacy, and reputation in their digital world.
We can track our kids’ every move with apps, see their grades within minutes of being posted, and fixate on
their digital footprint, anxious that a misstep could cause them to be “canceled” or even jeopardize their
admission to college. And all of this adds pressure on kids who are coming of age immersed in social media
platforms that emphasize “personal brand,” “likes,” and “gotcha” moments. How can they figure out who they
really are with zero privacy and constant judgment?
Heitner shows us that by focusing on character, not the threat of getting caught or exposed, we can support our
kids to be authentically themselves. Drawing on her extensive work with parents and schools as well as
hundreds of interviews with kids, parents, educators, clinicians, and scholars, Heitner offers strategies for
parenting our kids in an always-connected world.
Heitner will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, creative director of Parent Nation, an initiative of the
University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. 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] Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream David Leonhardt
2023-11-02 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 7:00 PM, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, a
FAN webinar featuring David Leonhardt, in conversation with Matthew Desmond, Ph.D.

Register: www.bit.ly/LeonhardtFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Ours Was the Shining Future from FAN’s
partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Leonhardt that will
start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of
American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the
Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world’s most
powerful country? And what happened to the “American dream”—the promise of a happier, healthier, more
prosperous future—which was once such an inextricable part of our national identity?
In his first book, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
David Leonhardt draws on decades of writing about the economy for The New York Times, examining the past
century of American history, from the Great Depression to today’s Great Stagnation, in search of an answer. To
make sense of the rise and subsequent fall of the American dream, Leonhardt tells the story of the modern
American economy as an ongoing battle between two competing forms of capitalism: one that envisions
prosperity for most, and one that serves the individual and favors the wealthy. In vivid prose, Ours Was the
Shining Future traces how democratic capitalism flourished to make the American dream possible, until the
latter decades of the twentieth century when, bit by bit, the dream was corrupted to serve only the privileged
few.
Leonhardt is a senior writer at The New York Times, where he writes its flagship newsletter, “The Morning.” He
has also been the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief, an op-ed columnist, a staff writer for The New York
Times Magazine, and the founding editor of “The Upshot.”
Leonhardt will be in conversation with Matthew Desmond, Ph.D. (FAN ’16, ’23), the Maurice P. During
Professor of Sociology, and the founder and principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He
is the is the author of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American
City and Poverty, by America, both New York Times bestsellers.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

2023 Chrysalis Luncheon
2023-11-02 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 second annual luncheon to honor those who are making great impacts on mental health efforts in our area. Last November over 100 community leaders and FSC supporters gathered at the Valley Lo Club in Glenview. We came 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. Attendees heard from both the 2022 and 2023 Heart of the Family honorees who delivered powerful words about the continued needs in our community. Buy Tickets here.

[FAN] Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity Lisa M.P. Munoz
2023-11-01 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 7:00 PM (on Zoom)
Register: www.bit.ly/MunozFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Women in Science Now from FAN’s partner
bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Munoz that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle
slights to blatant biases, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out of science and
technology entirely. Science writer Lisa M.P. Munoz’s new book, Women in Science Now: Stories and
Strategies for Achieving Equity, examines solutions to this persistent gender gap, offering new perspectives on
how to make science more equitable and inclusive for all. The book shares stories and insights of women from a
range of backgrounds working in various disciplines, illustrating the journeys that brought them to the sciences,
the challenges they faced along the way, and the important contributions they have made to their fields. Ms.
Munoz combines these narratives with a wealth of data to illuminate the size and scope of the challenges
women scientists face, while highlighting research-based solutions to help overcome these obstacles. She
presents groundbreaking studies in social psychology and organizational behavior that are informing novel
approaches for combating historic and ongoing inequities.
Ms. Munoz is the founder and president of SciComm Services, a science communications consulting firm. She
develops, leads, and executes communication strategies for science groups, including VC funds, sci-tech
startups, scientific societies and academic research groups, international organizations, and other institutions.
Ms. Munoz will be in conversation with Vanessa Bohns, Ph.D., a social psychologist, professor, and chair of
organizational behavior at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (the
ILR School), and author of the 2021 book You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate
Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D.
2023-10-30 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:00 PM, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, a FAN webinar
featuring Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D., in conversation with Claire Bond Potter, Ph.D.
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Democracy Awakening to randomly selected Zoom
attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/RichardsonFANWebinar
During the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D., professor of history at Boston College,
launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned
into a popular Substack newsletter, Letters from an American, and its subscriber base ballooned to more than
two million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in
America.
In Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Prof. Richardson crafts a compelling and original
narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American
ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism — creating a
disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel
important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s
true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this
nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past.
Prof. Richardson’s talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, and confusing news feed into a coherent story
that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. In
her trademark calm prose, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history
allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch
McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the
liberal consensus and birth of “movement conservatism.”
Prof. Richardson will be in conversation with Claire Bond Potter, Ph.D., Professor of History Emeritus at The
New School for Social Research in New York City, and the author of the Political Junkie Substack and an
associated podcast, Why Now? She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the
New Republic, Yale Review, and Dissent. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter,
How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and Hitting It Out of the Park Andrew Rea
2023-10-26 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:00 PM, Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and Hitting
It Out of the Park, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201.
Interviewer: Sawyer Jacobs. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Basics with Babish at the event, while supplies last.
No registration required.
In his wildly popular Basics with Babish series, YouTube star Andrew Rea, who has amassed millions of
subscribers, attempts, often fails, but always teaches cooking techniques for all levels of cooks. He’s explained
everything from how to make challah bread and English muffins to Asian dumplings and homemade bacon. Now
those classic, essential recipes (and many more) are compiled into Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing
Up, Trying Again, and Hitting It Out of the Park, an authoritative cookbook which contains hundreds of step-by step
photographs with tips and tricks to help you troubleshoot anything from broken butter to burnt bread to
bony branzino. Basics with Babish isn’t just a kitchen Bible for a new generation of home chefs, it’s a proud
reclamation of mistakes which encourages you to learn from your and Andrew’s missteps alike.
Rea launched Binging with Babish on YouTube in 2016, recreating and reimagining dishes from famous
television programs and movies inspired by everything from Mad Men to The Simpsons to Game of Thrones – it
now has over 10 million subscribers and growing. The tie-in cookbook, Binging with Babish, was an instant New
York Times bestseller, and fans of that book and countless more will delight in this new cookbook which will
truly teach you how to cook, with Rea’s beloved sense of humor and guiding hand throughout.
Rea’s YouTube channel, Babish Culinary Universe, has grown into one of the most successful and widely viewed
on the platform with a new companion instructional cooking series, Basics with Babish. At the heart of
everything produced from his home kitchen and studio in Brooklyn, New York, is a passion for learning,
connecting, and pushing himself and others outside of their comfort zone.
Rea will be in conversation with Sawyer Jacobs, Andrew’s lifelong friend and business partner. Before working
at Babish, Sawyer was an intellectual property attorney representing media clients such as Condé Nast, reddit,
Inc., and The Newark Star Ledger.
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] Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease Stress, Worry, and Anxiety
2023-10-24 19:00 | Francis W Parker School, Heller Auditorium, 2233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, 60614
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00 PM, Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease
Stress, Worry, and Anxiety, Francis W. Parker School, Heller Auditorium, 2233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614.
Anxiety and worry are normal and expected parts of learning and growing, but when children and teens face
challenges cognitively, socially, or emotionally, anxiety can step in and take over. Anxiety can be overwhelming
and rigid, but it’s also based on predictable patterns that can be shifted once we learn how it operates.
Based on current research and over 30 years of clinical experience, Lynn Lyons, LICSW presents a strategic
approach based on skill-building, with prevention the preferred path. The goal? Using creativity, connection, and
energy, parents will learn how to increase their child’s flexibility, support the tolerance of uncertainty, and
emotionally and preventatively equip themselves and those they love as we all move forward.
Ms. Lyons travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the
need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought-after expert, appearing in the New
York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, and other media outlets. Ms. Lyons is a
featured expert in the documentary Anxious Nation.
With a special interest in breaking the generational cycle of worry in families, Ms. Lyons is the author/coauthor
of several books and articles on anxiety, including Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry
Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, and the companion book for kids, Playing with Anxiety:
Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids. Her latest book for adults and teenagers, The Anxiety Audit: 7 Sneaky Ways
Anxiety Takes Hold and How to Escape Them, was released in 2022.
Ms. Lyons is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux.
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.
