Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change

Patricia Frazier is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, activist and youth mentor raised in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood who has shared the stage with such artists as Chance the Rapper, Macklemore and Ciara. Influenced by poets and songwriters like Mama Brenda, her writing highlights the multifaceted identities of black women.

Uploaded 15-01-18

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Today we don’t gather our own food, fight off wild animals, or live in caves. And yet, explains Dr. Rick Hanson, we’re equipped with stone-aged brains. With practice, however, and a focus on the good, we can make ourselves more resilient, while opening up new horizons of experience.

Uploaded 03-04-20

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Justice Richard Bernstein talks about finding and pursuing his passion in spite of the barriers he had to overcome along the way.

Uploaded 08-04-20

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After losing her husband, Taryn Davis typed "Widow" into Google. Google's response: "Did you mean 'window?' " Hear how Taryn went on to create a place where widows of fallen service members come together for peer-to-peer support.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
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. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, speaks about how he found purpose in his experience contending with the unfair forces of the American justice system.

Uploaded 08-04-20

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Renowned bioethicist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel spells out the current problems and solutions for the outrageous costs and relatively low performance of American health care, while providing an optimistic view of what's come before our current state of affairs and, most importantly, what the future holds.

Uploaded 14-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
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. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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With about 95 percent of the 2.5 million U.S. inmates eventually returning to life behind bars, how can you make prison positive? Hear how rocker Wayne Kramer turned his stay in Club Fed for a 1970's drug conviction into a platform to launch Jail Guitar Doors USA, a nonprofit that teaches inmates both musical and life skills.

Uploaded 14-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
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. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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We've all seen commercials that are more snore-worthy than compelling. But does that mean authentic storytelling is dead in the advertising industry? Susan Credle, chief creative officer at Leo Burnett USA, believes character-driven stories are very much alive—and they can change the world.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
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. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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You may know him from the big screen, but you might not know he's also responsible for one of the largest and smartest peer-to-peer fundraising platforms. Hear self-proclaimed "philanthropy addict" Edward Norton shares his philosophy on giving, creative fundraising ideas and why that last charity luncheon you went to (you know the one we're talking about) doesn't work.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
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. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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It’s clear that we’re living in an America with “haves” and “have-nots.” So if you’re one of the “haves,” what can you do to decrease disparity and help marginalized communities? This trio of women—Anna Valencia, Elizabeth Dozier, and Bridget Gainer—who are making important strides in different areas come together to explain how to help specifically in Chicago, whether that’s through early childhood education, turning around blighted neighborhoods or simply helping minority people in your workplace have the confidence to lead.

Uploaded 09-01-18

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