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Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change — 124 episodes · page 1 of 2
It Takes a Community: Building Opportunity Through Inclusion
The Future of Work
Where Creative Inspiration Comes From
The 77 Project: A Ride with Jacqueline Reed, Founder, WHA (Community Area #25)
Alan Blaustein: Where Does the Patient Fit?
Access Granted: Leveling the Playing Field in Entrepreneurship
Lauren Drain: My Life Post-Cult: Back to Normality
Kennedy Odede: Shaking the Status Quo by the Strength of the Grassroots
Valerie Lies: Failing Forward
Tim Kafalas and Thomas Beug: Learning From Locals
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Defines Home at Chicago Ideas Week
Elaine Chang, Aza Raskin, Dan Rosensweig: The Brains Behind Disruption
Edible Clouds and More Wondrous Food from Irwin Adam Eydelnant
Major General Marcia Anderson: Hire a Hero
Future of News: What's the Story? Presented by TIME
Navigating Modern Tech Ethics: A Conversation with Facebook
What it’s Like to Train with a Navy SEAL
Jeff Lieberman: Living the Questions
Life's Big Questions: A Conversation with Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
Stephanie Shaw on Love, Tinder-Style
Elizabeth Cohen: The Empowered Patient
Mind the Gap: An Exploration of Community Reinvestment
Kara Swisher: What's Next for Tech
Thierry Daher: Fashion Forward Marketing
Jamila Woods Performing "Blk Girl Soldier" Live
Rick Nielsen: The Legendary Collector
Jeanne Marie Laskas: Hidden Americans
Performance by DanceWorks Chicago
Why Do Immigrants Come to America?
Natalie Vanatta's Sci-Fi Vision of a Future US Hack
Building the World's Most Advanced Telescope
Michael Carter: The Gift of Opportunity
Tiffany Persons: The Accidental Socia Entrepreneur
Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs: The World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Lilly Ledbetter on Her Fight for Equal Pay for Women
Tim Ferriss: Testing Assumptions
Ellen Gustafson: Change Dinner, Change Health, Change the World
Brad Goreski: Inside the Mind of a Celebrity Stylist
Is the human genome important?
The Social Justice Aspects of Illinois's Cannabis Law
Paul Rieckhoff: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome
Eva Moskowitz on the Real Issues Facing Schools
Steve Case: The Original Digital Disruptor
Theodore Ross: Am I a Jew?
Why Are Some People More Productive Than Others?
What Does It Mean to Be an American? with Jose Antonio Vargas
Tom Brokaw, General Colin Powell and General Stanley McChrystal: The State of Our Returning Vets
A.J. Jacobs: My Life as an Experiment
Is marijuana a miracle drug?
How to Dance a Speech: Benjamin Holliday Wardell
Charles Best: Projects That Match Your Passions
Elle Macpherson: Let's Talk About Beauty
CPS Chief Education Officer Janice K. Jackson on School Choice
Leah Libresco: Having Better FIghts About Religion
I AM ALS Co-Founders Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya Share Story of Resilience at Chicago Ideas
Jay Parkinson: Creative Health
Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi: Super Brain
Kevin Coval, "Jewtown"
Chicago Ideas Week Highlights
Micaela Connery: Putting the Spotlight on Ability
Will Tracy and Seth Reiss: The Art of Offending
Is Your Brain Lying to You?
Melissa Stockwell: Fuller Life with Prosthetic
Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers
The Future of Wearable Technology
Judith Rodin: Reinventing our World
State of Democracy from a Mayoral Point of View
Sonya Jackson: Secrets of Corporate Giving
Jason Fried and James Warren: World of Work
James Marshall Reilly: The Millennial Generation
Helping Refugees in the Trump Era: The International Refugee Assistance Project's Becca Heller
Tahirah Whittington: Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in Three Styles
The 77 Project: A Look at The Dovetail Project (Community Area #69)
Judy Smith on Responding to a Crisis
Liz Dwyer: What if Schools Weren't Schools Anymore?
Why We Need a New Civil Rights Movement
Panel Discussion: Can a City Work Like a Startup?
Madison Cowan: Taking it all with a Pinch of Salt
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann: Election Report 2012
Kenny Leon and Phylicia Rashad on the Stories that Shaped Their Careers
Jeremy Zimmer on Changing Office Culture at United Talent Agency
Lisa Brummel: How We Manage the Workforce
Nikki Durkin: Collaborative Consumption: Fashion in the Sharing Economy
Jazz by Julian Reid and Nico Segal of the Ju Ju Exchange
How Our Brains Could Teach Us to Fly
Yael Cohen: How Gen Y Is Changing Cancer
Carol Edgarian: The Intimacy of Stories
Mitch Albom: Making Each Moment Matter
The 77 Project: A Look at Cara Chicago (Community Area #28)
Adam Braun: The For-Purpose Path
Sebastian Junger: Why Soldiers Returning From War Have Trouble Adapting
Kirsten Lodal: Waging a New War on Poverty
Performance by Matt Muse
An Inside Look at Impeachment with Joe Lockhart and Rahm Emanuel | Chicago Ideas
Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe: Rocking Out to Classical Music
The 77 Project: A Look at Taste of India with Indo-American Heritage Museum (Community Area #2)
Helene Gayle: 70 Years of Caring
Saeed Jones on the Importance of Stories
The Man Behind the Medicine with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Interview with Jennifer Garner and Mark K. Shriver, Save the Children