Who We're Talking With

Each CCP we gather with different leaders who talk with us on specific themes.
These leaders come from different sectors of Chicago's common life.

Toni Preckwinkle,
Cook County Board President

Jamie Price,
Executive Director,
Sargent Shriver Peace Institute

DeRay McKesson,
BlackLivesMatter national leader

Cara Smith,
Chief Policy Officer
Cook County Sheriff’s Office

Dr. Jens Ludwig,
Faculty Director,
University of Chicago Crime Lab

Lawrence Benito,
Executive Director
IL Coalition for Immigrant
& Refugee Rights

Jamil Khoury & Malik Gillani,
Founders and Directors,
Silk Road Rising theater

John White,
photographer

Isaac Gomez & Monty Cole,
Victory Gardens Theatre

Chuck Smith,
Resident Director
Goodman Theatre

Steve Edwards,
VP & Chief Content Officer,
WBEZ & Chicago Public Media

Alex Kotlowitz,
author of
There Are No Children Here and
Never a City So Real

Laura Washington,
Chicago Sun-Times

Lolly Bowean,
Chicago Tribune

Manya Brashear,
Chicago Tribune

Rick Kogan,
WGN Radio

Dr. Robert Winn,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Community-based Practice &
Director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center

Dr. Selwyn Rogers, Founding Director
Trauma Center, University of Chicago Medicine

Don York,
Horace B. Horton Professor Emeritus,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

Grace Wolf-Chase, Astronomer
Adler Planetarium

Polly Toner, Chaplain
University of Chicago Medicine

Rev. Clayton Thomason,
Professor of Religion & Medicine
Rush University Medical Center

Dr. David Ansell,
Senior VP for Community Health Equity,
Rush University Medical Center

Don Camp, Senior Director
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital

Cardinal Blase Cupich,
Archbishop of Chicago

Sarah Fredericks,
Professor of Environmental Ethics,
University of Chicago

William Schweicker,
Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics,
University of Chicago

Robin Lovin,
Cary Maguire University
Professor of Ethics,
Southern Methodist University