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Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change
by Chicago Ideas
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Any questions? Email [email protected]. Links: Chicago Ideas Website: http://www.chicagoideas.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ChicagoIdeasWeek Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagoideas Instagram: http://instagram.com/chicagoideas Blog: http://blog.chicagoideas.com Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user9374194
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Life's Big Questions: A Conversation with Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
In the midst of a truly unprecedented year, how does Mayor Lightfoot stay calm and centered? How does she spend her free time (if she actually has any to spare)? These are some of the questions we asked during this insightful conversation, politics aside.Uploaded 10-11-20Learn more about your ad...
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Stephanie Shaw on Love, Tinder-Style
Comedian and college professor Stephanie Shaw offers her hilarious insights on dating, now vs. then.Uploaded 14-03-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Elizabeth Cohen: The Empowered Patient
After her newborn daughter experienced unnecessary treatments in the NICU, CNN correspondent Elizabeth Cohen began a quest to empower patients to better navigate the health care system, encouraging us all to be vigilant, be educated, and listen to our bodies.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas...
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Mind the Gap: An Exploration of Community Reinvestment
29.6% of the households in Greater Grand Crossing live beneath the federal poverty line. 22.4% of the houses are vacant. Like neighborhoods across the city—especially on the West and South Sides—Greater Grand Crossing is suffering from Chicago’s notorious wealth gap. Uploaded 29-01-20And Rebuild...
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Kara Swisher: What's Next for Tech
What's in store for the tech world when it comes to disruptive innovation? Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of AllThingsD, sits down with Rick Stengel to discuss what's next in this constantly evolving industry.Uploaded 22-04-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day...
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Thierry Daher: Fashion Forward Marketing
The primary function of footwear is not walking, but a statement of where you stand in shoe culture. From the war to Barbie, Run-DMC to Air Jordans and a shoe cobbler to a celebrity, listen to filmmaker Thierry Daher explain the psychological and social impact of shoes.Uploaded 14-03-13About...
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Jamila Woods Performing "Blk Girl Soldier" Live
Jamila Woods performs "Blk Girl Solider" live at Chicago Ideas Week 2017, with MusicReloaded accompanying on piano. The event, "A Seat at the Table: Finding Equal Footing Through Storytelling," brought together powerful black women in media from across platforms, including brand director Bozoma...
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Rick Nielsen: The Legendary Collector
Do you "collect" things like it's going out of style? You're not alone. Hear self-proclaimed hoarder and Cheap Trick lead guitarist, Rick Nielsen, share his extensive guitar, stamp and record collections and find out why he loves The Who and more.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago...
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Jeanne Marie Laskas: Hidden Americans
What fuels American workers? What runs people's lives? From coal miner to an air traffic controller to a trucker, hear author Jeanne Marie Laskas illuminate how and why our country works.Uploaded 18-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas,...
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Performance by DanceWorks Chicago
DanceWorks Chicago performs to "Little Girl Blue" as sung by Nina SimoneUploaded 06-02-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Why Do Immigrants Come to America?
Why do people immigrate to the United States, even illegally, especially from certain countries? In this interview with Anne Marie Slaughter, Define American's Jose Antonio Vargas asks how US foreign policy, trade agreements, and addiction to cheap labor affect migrant populations and discusses…
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Natalie Vanatta's Sci-Fi Vision of a Future US Hack
Natalie Vanatta was always interested in science fiction, particularly what would happen in the future. So it’s no surprise that as a defensive hacker working to protect the United States from a malicious attack, she and her colleagues have thought long and hard about what could happen as the US...
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Building the World's Most Advanced Telescope
Lucianne Walkowicz is an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, and is part of the team working on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which will revolutionize the way we understand the night sky.Uploaded 27-04-17Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
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Michael Carter: The Gift of Opportunity
For a lot of people, college is defined by school, parties, etc. But as an undergraduate, Michael Carter rolled up his sleeves and founded Strive for College, a mentoring program to help low-income students apply for a higher education. Hear how this BHSI fellow has done some A+ work helping...
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Tiffany Persons: The Accidental Socia Entrepreneur
At age 9, Tiffany Persons won the "Miss Congeniality" award at the Little Miss Detroit Pageant. Little did she know it would be that spirit that would lead her to a life of social change. As the founder of Shine on Sierra Leone, Tiffany shares how she "accidentally" became a social...
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Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs: The World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
And you thought your sorority or fraternity was exclusive. Hear TIME Magazine's Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy share the secrets of the world's most private fraternity: The Presidents Club.Uploaded 18-04-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas,...
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Lilly Ledbetter on Her Fight for Equal Pay for Women
"I never started in life to have my name on a lawsuit...nor did I plan to have my name on a law that would be become so well-known around the world," Lily Ledbetter says in this Talk about her struggle for equal pay for all women. As an overnight supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.,...
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Tim Ferriss: Testing Assumptions
What if you had to eliminate in-person meetings and phone calls? What if you had to only work four hours each week -- or were forced to take four weeks off? Hear the mental tools Tim Ferriss uses to blast away bottlenecks in your productivity and enjoyment.Uploaded 18-03-13About Chicago Ideas…
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Ellen Gustafson: Change Dinner, Change Health, Change the World
30 Project Founder Ellen Gustafson believes we can take back control of our food system and health, and proves her point by connecting global hunger, obesity, and security issues to the food we put on our own tables.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual…
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Brad Goreski: Inside the Mind of a Celebrity Stylist
Brad Goreski has dressed the biggest celebrities, landing them on the best-dressed lists while maintaining their individuality. Hear Brad's insider perspective on the nature of trends, designers who challenge us and how to dress fierce and fabulous.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week…
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Is the human genome important?
Francoise Baylis, a renowned geneticist, ponders the ethics behind the manipulation of the human genome and whether, as a human race, more safeguards need to be put in place to preserve it.Uploaded 15-05-20Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad...
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The Social Justice Aspects of Illinois's Cannabis Law
Joanne Caceres, a Cannabis Law Attorney at Dentons, explains the various components of the law that legalized cannabis in Illinois and how they address social inequity in the state.Uploaded 05-12-19Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices....
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Paul Rieckhoff: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome
One day you're dodging bombs in Afghanistan. The next, you're dodging traffic in America. Hear Paul Rieckhoff of The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America share the physical and emotional challenges of transitioning into civilian life, and find out how you can give veterans an 'on ramp' back...
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Eva Moskowitz on the Real Issues Facing Schools
President of charter school Success Academy in New York, Eva Moskowitz explains how the conversation around "school choice" takes the focus away from where educators would like it to be: on how to best educate students.Uploaded 14-03-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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Steve Case: The Original Digital Disruptor
Steve Case, cofounder of AOL and CEO of Revolution LLC, is an original disruptor who is still disrupting the status quo of business and technology today. From the CIW stage, Steve sits down with Rick Stengel to explore the past, present and future of game-changing innovation.Uploaded…
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Theodore Ross: Am I a Jew?
When Theodore Ross was 9 years old, he moved from New York City to Georgia, where his mother had him convert from Judaism to Christianity. Years later, he embarked on a cross-country journey looking for his lost religion, and found some unusual answers to a simple question -- am I a Jew?Uploaded...
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Why Are Some People More Productive Than Others?
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of “The Power of Habit” and “Smarter Faster Better." He has extensively researched what makes people productive, and determined that one key trait is their ability to "build mental...
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? with Jose Antonio Vargas
Undocumented Activist Jose Antonio Vargas discusses the state of the immigration crisis shortly before Trump was elected, his experiences as an undocumented gay American, the history of immigration in America especially as it relates to race, and what it means to be an American in today's day and...
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Tom Brokaw, General Colin Powell and General Stanley McChrystal: The State of Our Returning Vets
Listen how Tom Brokaw, General Colin Powell and General Stanley McChrystal discuss the differences and similarities between veterans coming home from war in the past and present, and how it is our obligation to support these fine young men and women as they return to civilian life.Uploaded...
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A.J. Jacobs: My Life as an Experiment
Bestselling author A.J. Jacobs is a human guinea pig. He has done everything from embedding himself with religious snake handlers to outsourcing his life to workers in India. Through deep observation and fearless participation, hear how he immersed himself in experiences to augment the art of...
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Is marijuana a miracle drug?
Comparing marijuana to penicillin, Mitch Kahn, CEO of Grassroots, discusses the ways that people's understanding of cannabis will change with expanded use.Uploaded 05-12-19Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How to Dance a Speech: Benjamin Holliday Wardell
Benjamin Holliday Wardell is the founder of the Cambrians, a dance company that builds collaborative processes to bridge gaps in the dance and theater worlds. Here, Wardell tells us about this process both in words and through interpretative dance.Uploaded 20-12-17Learn more about your ad…
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Charles Best: Projects That Match Your Passions
How did DonorsChoose.org get its first headline feature in the New York Times? Founder and CEO Charles Best admittedly gets very nervous when he tells this "hiccup" of a story. Find out how Charles went from helping his own classroom in the Bronx to impacting more than 6.6 million students in...
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Elle Macpherson: Let's Talk About Beauty
Hear supermodel and businesswoman Elle Macpherson and CIW founder Brad Keywell analyze the concept of beauty and how it has changed throughout Elle's robust career.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community,...
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CPS Chief Education Officer Janice K. Jackson on School Choice
"School choice." If you have school-aged children and live in an urban area, it's more than a buzzword, it's probably something you've given a lot of thought to. When we convened a panel of experts from different spheres, both public and charter, to discuss school choice and the future of...
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Leah Libresco: Having Better FIghts About Religion
Once an outspoken atheist, blogger and debate junkie Leah Libresco converted to Catholicism in the Spring of 2012. Here, she discusses how we can all have better arguments about the differences -- and perhaps more importantly, the similarities-- between and among our various religious beliefs,...
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I AM ALS Co-Founders Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya Share Story of Resilience at Chicago Ideas
I AM ALS Co-Founders and Former Obama Staffers Brian Wallach and his wife Sandra Abrevaya were blindsided when he, an otherwise healthy father of two, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Instead of sinking into despair, Wallach and Abrevaya founded I AM ALS with the goal of...
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Jay Parkinson: Creative Health
When pediatrician Dr. Jay Parkinson got out of residency, he started his own practice based around personal in-home care and online appointment scheduling... and got 7 million hits to his website within one month. Since then, he's set out to modernize our expectations for health care using...
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Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi: Super Brain
Have you ever wondered what the secret to happiness might be? Well as it turns out, there's a formula. Hear spiritual guru Deepak Chopra and renowned neuroscientist Rudy Tanzi reveal that equation and more - including how to change your genes and keep your brain healthy, happy, and…
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Kevin Coval, "Jewtown"
Chicago poet Kevin Coval reads his poem "Jewtown" during the Chicago Ideas Curiosity Series.Uploaded 13-03-18Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Chicago Ideas Week Highlights
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 29-03-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Micaela Connery: Putting the Spotlight on Ability
What were you doing when you were 15? Micaela Connery was launching the first Unified Theater production at her school, and what began as a small social project in her parent's living room has grown to impact 4,000 students from coast to coast. Hear how she made that magic happen, and what…
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Will Tracy and Seth Reiss: The Art of Offending
As the brains behind America's Finest News Source, hear Will Tracy and Seth Reiss explore the creative process of publishing those perfect Onion headlines.Uploaded 18-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to...
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Is Your Brain Lying to You?
Ever wonder why you can’t convince someone they’re wrong? In this fascinating Talk, Tali Sharot explains from a neuroscientist’s point of view why the human brain is primed to lie to us about some things, and how to convince it to change. For more info and to watch in full HD, visit:...
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Melissa Stockwell: Fuller Life with Prosthetic
Melissa Stockwell sports a shiny red, white and blue prosthetic after she lost her leg to a bomb in Baghdad. Find out why she says losing a limb made her life more fulfilling, and hear how she's gone on to compete in the Paralympics and find a new career.Uploaded 18-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week...
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Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers
Would you turn your life into a public story? Hear why singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards is doing just that, learn the stories behind her favorite songs, and find out what naked knife fighting with Viggo Mortenson has to do with it all.Uploaded 14-03-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago Ideas Week...
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The Future of Wearable Technology
Billie Whitehouse is the designer and director of wearable experiments, which created Funderwear among many other wearable technologies.Uploaded 27-04-17Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Judith Rodin: Reinventing our World
Disruptive innovation spans far beyond the tech world. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world's leading philanthropic organizations, challenges the CIW audience to shatter status quo thinking in all areas of life.Uploaded 22-04-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago...
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State of Democracy from a Mayoral Point of View
Watch as CIW examines the state of democracy at the local level with the mayors of Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston and Fontana. Learn what major issues they're facing in their communities and hear how each is holding herself or himself accountable.Uploaded 18-04-13About Chicago Ideas Week Chicago...
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Sonya Jackson: Secrets of Corporate Giving
If "corporate giving" sounds like an oxymoron, you haven't met Sonya Jackson. Hear the president of the United Airlines Foundation share how she walks the delicate line of doing good both for charity and the company -- and her warning about the worst thing a nonprofit can do.Uploaded…
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Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things.
Any questions? Email [email protected].
Links: Chicago Ideas Website: http://www.chicagoideas.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ChicagoIdeasWeek Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagoideas Instagram: http://instagram.com/chicagoideas Blog: http://blog.chicagoideas.com Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user9374194
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