Family Service Center (FSC)

[FAN] On Ambition Maggie Smith and Rainesford Stauffer
2023-12-06 19:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

[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.

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] 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.

[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.

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] 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.

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] 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.

[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] 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] 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] Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction Gloria Mark, Ph.D.
2024-02-13 19:00 | 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] Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There Cass R. Sunstein
2024-02-27 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 7:00 PM, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There, a FAN webinar featuring Cass R. Sunstein, in conversation with Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D. (FAN ’22).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/SunsteinFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Look Again from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Prof. Sunstein that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
It’s common to feel jaded and unexcited by what many consider the mundane in our day to day lives. Years into a dream job, a happy relationship, or a beloved apartment, the very things that once thrilled us can take on the ho hum. We also get used to the terrible: corruption, lies, dirty air, misinformation, toxic relationships.
But what if we could find a way to see everything anew? What if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don’t try to change? In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There professors Cass R. Sunstein and Tali Sharot, Ph.D. share with readers a groundbreaking study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives. The key to this disruption—to seeing, feeling, and noticing again—is change. By temporarily changing your environment, changing the rules, changing the people you interact with—or even just stepping back and imagining change—you regain sensitivity, allowing you to identify more clearly the bad and more deeply appreciate the good.
Prof. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and is the nation’s most-cited legal scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School for 27 years, and for the past fifteen years, he has been at the forefront of behavioral economics. His book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, coauthored with Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler, was a national bestseller. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; since that time, he has served in the US government in multiple capacities.
Prof. Sunstein will be in conversation with Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D. (FAN ’22), the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and the author of the award-winning book Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. She is the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being Sue Varma, MD
2024-02-29 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7:00 PM, Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being, a FAN webinar featuring Sue Varma, MD, in conversation with Tara Lipinski.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/VarmaFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Practical Optimism from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Varma and Lipinski that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Sue Varma, MD, the first medical director treating first responders and civilians for PTSD, depression, and anxiety at the World Trade Center Mental Health program (WTC MHP), made a fascinating discovery: she realized that fostering an optimistic mindset firmly grounded in reality is crucial for making wise and reasonable decisions. In her debut book, Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being, Dr. Varma blends philosophy, personal experiences, and the latest research in psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and neuroscience to guide readers on a path toward resilience and personal growth.
Optimists tend to achieve more success, report higher incomes and job satisfaction, adopt healthier habits, build stronger relationships, and experience greater overall life satisfaction, ultimately leading to increased happiness. Practical optimists are resourceful, realistic, and thoughtful problem solvers who possess something of rare value: the inner resources to cope during a crisis and to use as fuel to flourish. Practical optimism is a transformative approach to experiencing greater meaning, mastery, and acceptance.
Dr. Varma is a distinguished psychiatrist and cognitive behavioral therapist based and holds the position of Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Langone Health. Her accomplishments have been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, where she was named a Distinguished Fellow, the highest honor bestowed upon its members.
Dr. Varma will be in conversation with Tara Lipinski, the internationally acclaimed American figure skater. At the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, Lipinski became the youngest female to capture the Olympic gold medal in figure-skating. She now has new roles as a sports commentator, an actress, a documentary film producer, a philanthropist, and more.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

Trivia Night: Leaping Through the Decades
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Max & Benny’s, 461 Waukegan Rd, Northbrook, IL, 60062, United States
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[FAN] Holy Shift!: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work Dan Michelson
2024-03-07 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7:00 PM, Holy Shift!: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work, a FAN webinar featuring Dan Michelson, in conversation with Sarah Alter.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MichelsonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Holy Shift! from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Michelson and Alter that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Dan Michelson’s new book, Holy Shift!: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work, takes you on a fascinating journey to the heart of the single biggest and fastest shift in how we work and live in history. Readers and leaders at every level of an organization will discover practical ideas and actions that address three big, thorny questions: How did we get here, where do we go from here, and how do we get there?
A visionary CEO with a track-record of building world-class company cultures, Michelson combines a reflection of how we got to now with research on how companies are managing this moment to create a roadmap in the form of a strategic framework and pragmatic playbook. Holy Shift! maps three simple steps to create momentum to move your company towards the future of work: 1) See the Shift; 2) Shift Your Mindset; and 3) Make Shift Happen.
Michelson is the founder and CEO of InCommon, a “for purpose” company that helps companies turn culture into a strategy that drives productivity and engagement. From 2012 to 2022, he served as the CEO of Strata, a 500-person tech company with a mission to help heal healthcare. Prior to Strata, he spent a decade as the chief marketing officer of Allscripts, a global leader in healthcare technology.
Michelson will be in conversation with Sarah Alter, a national thought leader and role model in the workplace, serving for six years as the CEO of NextUp, the largest network of executive women in the country. Alter’s previous experience includes executive roles at Staples, Discover, and General Growth Properties. She has been appointed to serve three terms on the Illinois State Lottery Advisory Board.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House Jared Cohen
2024-03-11 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, a FAN webinar featuring Jared Cohen, in conversation with Elise Jordan.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/JCohenFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Life After Power from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Cohen that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right. In Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, New York Times bestselling author Jared Cohen tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life.
Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment he included on his tombstone, unlike his presidency. John Quincy Adams served in Congress and became a leading abolitionist, passing the torch to Abraham Lincoln. Grover Cleveland was the only president in American history to serve a nonconsecutive term. William Howard Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Herbert Hoover shaped the modern conservative movement, led relief efforts after World War II, reorganized the executive branch, and reconciled John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Jimmy Carter has had the longest postpresidency in American history, advancing humanitarian causes, human rights, and peace. George W. Bush made a clean break from politics, bringing back George Washington’s precedent, and reminding the public that the institution of the presidency is bigger than any person.
Cohen will be in conversation with Elise Jordan, a communication strategist, writer, and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her forthcoming history of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the women who worked for him during World War II will be published by Knopf in 2025.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Leslie Jamison, Ph.D.
2024-03-18 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, March 18, 2024, 7:00 PM, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, a FAN webinar featuring Leslie Jamison, Ph.D., in conversation with Ashley C. Ford.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/JamisonFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Splinters from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Jamison and Ford that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Leslie Jamison, Ph.D. has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story enters a new realm.
In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.
How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity.
Jamison will be in conversation with Ashley C. Ford, the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter. Ford is the former co-host of the HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio, and the current host of Ben & Jerry’s Into The Mix.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls Kara Alaimo, Ph.D.
2024-03-20 19:00 | Zoom
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 7:00 PM, Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls, a FAN webinar featuring Kara Alaimo, Ph.D., in conversation with Laura Apperson.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/AlaimoFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Over the Influence from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Alaimo and Apperson that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
In Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo, Ph.D. reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women, girls, and nonbinary people —from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental wellbeing. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought – whether you’re constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you’re likely to get fewer followers if you’re a woman. She demonstrates how fake news is crafted to prey on women’s vulnerabilities. She reveals why so much of the content we find in our feeds is specifically designed to hold us back. And she explains how social media has made the offline world an uglier place for women.
Alaimo offers up brilliant advice for how to get over the influence—how to handle our daughters’ use of social media, use dating apps to find who we’re looking for, use social networks to bolster our careers, and protect ourselves from sextortionists, catfishers, and trolls. She also explains what we need to demand from lawmakers and tech companies to solve these problems.
Alaimo will be in conversation with Laura Apperson, an editor who specializes in innovative nonfiction who is spearheading the new nonfiction program at Alcove Press. Previously, Apperson was an editor at St. Martin’s Press and Rockridge Press.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Charles Duhigg
2024-04-02 19:00 | New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd.,, Northfield, 60093, United States
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7:00 PM, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL 60093. Interviewer: Nicholas Epley, Ph.D. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY of Supercommunicators at the event, while supplies last. No registration required.
Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, launches yet another New York Times bestseller: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.
Supercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences, our values, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves, and others—shape every discussion, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work.
Duhigg is a staff writer at The New Yorker and was previously a reporter at the New York Times where he won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. He will be in conversation with Nicholas Epley, Ph.D, the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thinking people—to understand why smart people so routinely misunderstand each other. He is the author of Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] To Tell the Truth: Race, Identity, and Healing Rachel Jamison Webster
2024-04-04 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:00 PM, To Tell the Truth: Race, Identity, and Healing, a FAN webinar featuring Rachel Jamison Webster, in conversation with Melissa Blount, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/WebsterFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Benjamin Banneker and Us from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Webster and Blount that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Since the sequencing of the genome in 2003, we have known that humans share 99.9 percent of our DNA with all other humans, regardless of skin tone or nationality, indicating that race is not a biological reality as much as a legal and cultural construction. Today, thanks to sites like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, these facts are getting personal, as Americans discover ancestries that complicate long-held family identities. What should we do when we discover a family secret? And how can our ancestral stories help to illuminate our present moment?
This conversation begins with the premise that telling the truth is essential for healing. Join Rachel Jamison Webster, Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University, as she shares the story of her book, Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family. In 2016, Webster learned about several generations of African American ancestry that had been hidden in her family. This line traced back to the sister of Benjamin Banneker—the first Black man of science. Banneker was a free man living in the Revolutionary era. He helped survey Washington D.C., he compiled and published bestselling almanacs, and he corresponded with Jefferson about the heinous injustice of slavery.
Webster’s journey led her to celebrate Banneker’s brilliance, as well as that of his parents, grandparents, and sisters, and to grapple with the ways that racism had clouded the story of her family and country. She found herself in deep relationship and collaboration with her African American cousins—fellow Banneker descendants who came together to collaborate on the book. Together they celebrated their shared ancestors, and discussed race, history, and identity with unflinching honesty.
Webster will be in conversation with Melissa Blount, Ph.D., an artist, writer, and licensed clinical psychologist practicing her craft in Evanston, IL. Her textile pieces explore notions of Black womanhood, trauma, and white supremacy in America.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Menopause Brain Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D.
2024-04-08 19:00 | Zoom
Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Menopause Brain, a FAN webinar featuring Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., in conversation with Lisa Genova, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/MosconiFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Menopause Brain from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Dr. Mosconi that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia to brain fog. In her new book, The Menopause Brain, leading neuroscientist and women’s brain health specialist Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D. unravels these mysteries by revealing how menopause doesn’t just impact the ovaries—it’s a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage.
The decline of the hormone estrogen during menopause influences everything from body temperature to mood to memory, potentially paving the way for cognitive decline later in life. To conquer these challenges successfully, Dr. Mosconi brings us the latest approaches—explaining the role of cutting-edge hormone replacement therapies like “designer estrogens,” hormonal contraception, and key lifestyle changes encompassing diet, exercise, self-care, and self-talk. Best of all, Dr. Mosconi dispels the myth that menopause signifies an end, demonstrating that it is a transition. Contrary to popular belief, if we know how to take care of ourselves during menopause, we can emerge with a renewed, enhanced brain—ushering in a meaningful and vibrant new chapter of life.
Dr. Mosconi is an associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), and the director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The program includes the Women’s Brain Initiative, the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinical Trials Unit. She will be in conversation with Lisa Genova, Ph.D. Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University. She is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including Still Alice and Every Note Played. Genova’s first work of nonfiction, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her TED talks on Alzheimer’s and memory have over 11 million views.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib
2024-04-11 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, a FAN webinar featuring Hanif Abdurraqib, in conversation with Ross Gay, Ph.D. (FAN ’23).
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/HAFANWebinar
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of There’s Always This Year to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension is award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib’s poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent, and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”
There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus – whether it’s basketball, music, or performance — Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.
Abdurraqib (FAN ’21) will be in conversation with Ross Gay, Ph.D. (FAN ’23), the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of (More) Delights, The Book of Delights, and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides Geoffrey L. Cohen, Ph.D.
2024-04-15 19:00 | Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Little Theater, 1 Stevenson Drive, Lincolnshire, IL, 60069
Monday, April 15, 2024, 7:00 PM, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Little Theater, 1 Stevenson Dr., Lincolnshire, IL 60069. Interviewer: LeViis Haney, Ed.D. NOTE: No registration required. Access the event via the Circle Drive.
We live in enormously divisive times. Divisions based on class, politics, race, religion, gender, and nationality are erupting around the globe. The consequences of not having a sense of belonging range from political strife to illness to underperformance at work and in the classroom. Americans have become disconnected from their communities, and about one in five Americans suffers from chronic loneliness, especially young adults. Why is our sense of belonging so undermined? What if there were a set of science-backed techniques for navigating modern social life that could help us overcome our differences, create empathy, and forge lasting connections across divides?
Geoffrey L. Cohen, Ph.D. (FAN ’22), Professor of Psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University, answers these questions and more in his extraordinary 2022 book Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. As Prof. Cohen explains, often inadvertently, we behave in ways that threaten others’ sense of belonging. Yet small acts that establish connection, brief activities such as reflecting on our core values, and a wealth of practices that he refers to under the general rubric of “situation-crafting” have been shown to lessen polarization in our politics, improve motivation and performance in school and work, combat racism in our communities, enhance health and well-being, and unleash the potential in ourselves and our relationships. The book’s research is essential for managers, educators, parents, administrators, caregivers, and everyone who wants those around them to thrive.
Prof. Cohen will be in conversation with LeViis Haney, Ed.D., the Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. Dr. Haney also teaches principal preparation courses as an adjunct professor at Northeastern Illinois University and Loyola University Chicago, and is a facilitator for the Kaleidoscope Group, a DEI firm based in Chicago.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

[FAN] The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens Ellen Galinsky
2024-04-16 19:00 | Zoom
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7:00 PM, The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens, a FAN webinar featuring Ellen Galinsky, in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D.
REGISTER: www.bit.ly/GalinskyFANWebinar
BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of The Breakthrough Years from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Ms. Galinsky that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.
Many assumptions about adolescents are just plain wrong, argues Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute and former chief science officer at the Bezos Family Foundation and one of the foremost child development experts in the world. In The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens, she challenges and debunks the many myths, misunderstandings, and stereotypes about adolescents while weaving research-tested ways to influence them for success during these impressionable and transformative years.
Galinsky, the author of the best-selling Mind in the Making, set out to uncover the best strategies for raising thriving teens by interviewing and studying a nationally representative group of 1,666 adolescents (ages 9 to 19) and their parents, asking “What would you like to tell the adults of America about people your age?” Compelling, informative, and eye-opening, The Breakthrough Years is the culmination of this seven-year study into the adolescent brain and behavior.
Galinsky will be in conversation with Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D., superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois. A proponent of lifelong learning, Dr. Montgomery is also the Lead Superintendent for Cohort and Partner Connections with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), co-chairs the AASA STEM Leadership Consortium.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.

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