Family Service Center (FSC)

[FAN] Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
2023-09-27 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
In Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, Bettina L. Love, Ph.D. argues forcefully that, with the release of the 1983 report “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform,” Ronald Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration.
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Bettina L. Love, Ph.D.
William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of We Want to Do More Than Survive.
Ganae McAlpin-Toney
Director of Equity for Evanston Township High School D202 and the facilitator for the second-year induction program.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7:00 PM (on Zoom)
Register: www.bit.ly/LoveFANWebinar
AND: A book giveaway, sponsored by FAN! Details on Zoom registration page.

Wilmette Activity Fair
2023-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Women’s Club of Wilmette, 930 Greenleaf Ave, Wilmette, 60091, United States
Adults & Teens can learn how to get involved with local nonprofits. Participating organizations include:

Family Service Center
Go Green Wilmette
League of Women Voters
Moms Demand Action New Trier Township
National Charity League
New Trier Township
North Shore Senior Center
North Shore Youth Philanthropy Board
Northwestern Settlement
Our Place of New Trier
Radical Generosity Chicago
Rotary Club of Wilmette
Share Our Spare
Special Gifts Theatre
TEDx Wilmette
The Volunteer Center
The Warming House/Haven
WIND
Woman’s Club of Wilmette

[DEBRA GELFAND CHIRLDREN'S FOUNDATION] Gelfand Gallup
2023-10-01 08:30 - 12:30 | John’s Park, 2101 Central Road, Glenview, IL, United States
NEW RAIN DATE: Join the 2nd Annual Gelfand Gallop Color Dash on Sunday, October 1st at Richard E. John’s Park at 2101 Central Road, Glenview. This fun, family event is a fundraiser that benefits The Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation. The Gelfand Gallop is a community run where throughout the course participants get covered from head to toe with vibrant colors made from safe, food-grade, biodegradable cornstarch. By the time participants cross the finish line, they will be covered in a brilliant palette of warm and cool hues. Participants can choose to run either One Mile or Two Miles and there is even a 50 yard mini-dash for children ages five and under! Every participant will receive a t-shirt and a “goodie bag”. If there is inclement weather, the Gelfand Gallop will take place on Oct. 1, 2023.
Color Dash 1 will begin at 8:30am with a one or two mile option. Check in will open at 7:45am.
Color Dash 2 will begin at 10:30am with a one or two mile option. Check in will open at 9:45am.
Mini Dash will begin at 8:30am just prior to the start of Color Dash 1. This event is for runners ages 5 and under. There will not be a mini dash option at the 10:30am color dash.
Register by August 31st to guarantee a t-shirt. After Aug. 31st, t-shirts will be first come first served.
T-shirt pickup will be held on Friday Sept 15th from 3:30-6:30 pm at Hoffman School, 2000 Harrison Street, Glenview, IL 60025.

[FAN] Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better
2023-10-05 19:00 | Zoom
Myisha Cherry, Ph.D.
Associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and director of the Emotion and Society Lab.
Danté Stewart
Theologian, essayist, cultural critic, and author of Shoutin’ In The Fire: An American Epistle.
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 7:00 PM (on Zoom)
Register: www.bit.ly/CherryFANWebinar
PLUS: After-Hours Event!
Purchase a copy of Failures of Forgiveness from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall to receive a link
to an interactive “After-Hours” event hosted by Prof. Cherry and Mr. Stewart. Details on the Zoom registration form.
Providing new pathways to think about the ways we expect and react to wrongdoing, Prof. Cherry offers in-depth advice and takeaways, including 1) Forgiveness entails forgivers, withholders, and requestors, not just villains and victims; 2) Forgiveness is not an action or a process, but rather a set of moral practices; 3) It can end with relief, release, or reconciliation; and 4) Forgiveness will not save us but changing our relationship with it will get us closer to saving ourselves.

[NAMI] Family to Family Support Group
2023-10-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Niles Family Service, 999 Civic Center Dr., Niles, IL, 60714, United States
The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is a FREE 8-week course for families and close friends of adults with mental illness. This course is taught by trained teachers who are also family members and know what it is like to have a loved one living with mental illness, such as major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other disorders.
Many family members describe this experience as life changing. Join thousands of families, just like yours, who have gained information, understanding, and support.

Glenview Community Winter Wear Drive
2023-10-09 - 2023-10-19
The Glenview Community Winter Wear Drive, from October 9-19, aims to ensure that local families in need stay warm and comfortable during the cold winter months. They are collecting new and like-new winter coats, hats, scarves, mittens and gloves to provide warmth and comfort to those who need it most.
From October 9-19, drop off donations of new and like-new winter wear at the following locations:

Youth Services (3080 W. Lake Ave.)
GBS Main Lobby (4000 W. Lake Ave.)
Lyon School (1335 Waukegan Rd.)
Attea Middle School (2500 Chestnut Ave.)
Stuff the Bus Event on October 18 throughout Glenview

Check out our Amazon Wishlist, or you can skip the shopping and donate at tinyurl.com/GVWinterWear. Every contribution, coat or cash, big or small, helps us make a difference in the lives of our neighbors. A shopping event for those in need will take place later this fall.
This initiative is made possible through the collaborative efforts of GBS Titans Helping Titans, District 34, Youth Services, the Debra Gelfand Children’s Foundation, and the District 34 PTAs.

[FAN] Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success
2023-10-10 19:00 | Gorton Center, 400 E. Illinois Rd.,, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, United States
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 7:00 PM, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success, Gorton Center, 400
E. Illinois Rd., Lake Forest, IL 60045. Interviewer: Heidi Stevens. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Eight Setbacks
at the event, while supplies last. Books sale and signing, too. No registration required.
Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor
sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by
the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these “fails” has in common for
our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character building and developing more grit—if we help them
process their mistake well.
An invaluable playbook for anxious parents everywhere, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success by
parenting expert Michelle Icard (FAN ’22), offers specific and unexpected advice about what to say, what not to
say, and what to do to help children in eight categories of tense situations. Distilled from Icard’s decades of
experience working with tweens, teenagers, and families, she underscores that there is always a chance for a
child gain new and stronger decision-making skills, and for the parent-child relationship to strengthen.
Icard is the author of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen (2021) and Middle School Makeover (2014). She has a
degree in education and has worked with parents, children, and teachers for more than 20 years. A writer for
the Today show parenting team, NBC News Learn, CNN Science and Wellness, and the Washington Post, Icard’s
work has also been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Time, and People.
Icard 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 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] Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success
2023-10-11 19:00 | North Shore Country Day School, 310 Green Bay Rd, Winnetka, 60093, United States
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 7:00 PM, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success, North Shore
Country Day School, 310 Green Bay Rd., Winnetka, IL 60093. Interviewer: Caitlin McLennan. BONUS BOOK
GIVEAWAY of Eight Setbacks at the event, while supplies last. Books sale and signing, too. No registration
required.
Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor
sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by
the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these “fails” has in common for
our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character building and developing more grit—if we help them
process their mistake well.
An invaluable playbook for anxious parents everywhere, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success by
parenting expert Michelle Icard (FAN ’22), offers specific and unexpected advice about what to say, what not to
say, and what to do to help children in eight categories of tense situations. Distilled from Icard’s decades of
experience working with tweens, teenagers, and families, she underscores that there is always a chance for a
child gain new and stronger decision-making skills, and for the parent-child relationship to strengthen.
Icard is the author of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen (2021) and Middle School Makeover (2014). She has a
degree in education and has worked with parents, children, and teachers for more than 20 years. A writer for
the Today show parenting team, NBC News Learn, CNN Science and Wellness, and the Washington Post, Icard’s
work has also been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Time, and People.
Icard will be in conversation with Caitlin McLennan, Assistant Head of Lower School at North Shore Country Day
in Winnetka, IL. McLennan is involved in all aspects of the lower school, including recruitment and retention of
faculty, daily operations of the school, admissions work, professional development for faculty, and curriculum
analysis and development.
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] Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
2023-10-13 19:00 | Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL, 60201
Friday, October 13, 2023, 7:00 PM, Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds, Evanston Township High School Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. Interviewer: Kevin Warren. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Lucky Me at the event, while supplies last. No registration required.
“The minute I met Rich, I knew he was different … [He] helped me find my strength. Rich’s superpower isunderstanding what people truly need. So when you flip these pages and witness the kind of pain we feltgrowing up, don’t flinch. Hard truths make us stronger.”—LeBron James, from the Foreword to Lucky Me.
Super-agent Rich Paul is the CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group, one of the most influential and culturally relevant sports agencies in the world. His roster is comprised of a who’s who of professional athletes. He has been both incredibly successful and profoundly disruptive to the world of professional sports. There’s a story about Paul that everyone knows: A twenty-one-year-old kid from Cleveland who sells sports jerseys out of his car meets a high school basketball phenom named LeBron James at an airport—the two become friends and forge a decades-long partnership that reinvents the business of sports. That random meeting might seem like the lucky break that changed Paul’s life. But a moment of good fortune means nothing without the struggle that gets you there and the lessons you carry with you to the other side.
Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds is a memoir of an extraordinary journey told in Paul’s blunt, philosophical style. How did Paul grow into an individual capable of changing an American institution like the NBA? How did he become so disruptive to traditional power structures that the NCAA tried to bar his entry to the league by implementing a rule requiring that agents have college degrees, which many dubbed the “Rich Paul Rule?” Lucky Me starts by charting how Rich became a gambler at an early age—his fast mind and gift for finding an edge made him a devastating dice roller who could hold his own with grown men, win big, and walk away alive. Shooting dice wasn’t just a pastime; it was a way to earn money for his family as his mother struggled under the weight of drug addiction. Paul dreamed of becoming a star athlete, but the streets were where he
thrived, building a lucrative enterprise on shaky ground. When he found himself at a dangerous crossroads, he summoned the teachings of his past to create a different future.
Mr. Paul will be in conversation with Kevin Warren, President and CEO of the Chicago Bears, the first Black President and CEO in Club history and the first President and CEO hired from outside the organization. A veteran executive of 21 years in the NFL, Warren joined the Bears after spending the last three years as Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference.
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.

STUFF the BUS!
2023-10-16 - 2023-10-20
Beginning Monday, October 16 to Friday, October 20, the students of District 34 and District 30, are coming together in conjunction with Character Counts! Week to collect food items for donations to the Northfield Township Food Pantry (2550 Waukegan Rd Suite 100, Glenview, IL 60025). Collection boxes will be located at each school. Families may also choose to deliver food or check/cash donations directly to the pantry.
Stuff the Bus collection night on will be on Wednesday, October 18. Parents, students and community members can visit us along our route and help us Stuff the Bus for the food pantry and donate new and like-new winter coats, hats, scarves, mittens and gloves for the Glenview Community Winter Wear Drive!
What Should We Give?
The Northfield Township Food Pantry has received tremendous community support meeting the needs of our residents. Unfortunately, there are still significant challenges simply sourcing enough food in appropriate household sizes.
Some of the most important items that are difficult to stock in sufficient numbers are canned proteins such as tuna, chicken, salmon, beef stew, pasta with meat i.e. SpaghettiOs, and beans; soup; rice and pasta mixes and shelf-stable potatoes.

[NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP] FallFest Community Wellness Fair
2023-10-21 10:00 - 13:00 | North Shore Senior Center, 161 Northfield Road, Northfield, 60093, United States
Stop in at the North Shore Senior Center on Saturday October 21 from 10am to 1pm for a free, all-ages wellness event featuring interactive exhibits and fitness activities, a vaccination clinic, health and wellness screenings, career resources, hands-on safety activities and information, and some fun seasonal surprises!
For more information visit www.nssc.org or contact Debra Mell at 847.784.6037 or dmell@nssc.org.

[FAN] Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease Stress, Worry, and Anxiety
2023-10-23 19:00 | Central School, 620 Greenwood Ave, Glencoe, IL, 60022
Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:00 PM, Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease Stress, Worry, and Anxiety, Central School, Misner Auditorium, 620 Greenwood Ave., Glencoe, IL 60022.
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 not be recorded or live streamed.

[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.

[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] 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] 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.

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] 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.

[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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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.
