Evanston Township High School is sponsoring two virtual Family Action Network events on September 20 and September 23. Both events are free and open to the public, suitable for ages 12 and up. Registration is required.
Eric Garcia and Steve Silberman
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“We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation,” will be held on Monday, September 20, beginning at 7:00pm via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public, suitable for ages 12 and up. Registration is required.
Mr. Garcia presents a comprehensive survey of autism in the U.S., incorporating the perspectives of autistic people from all walks of life in addition to sharing his experiences as an autistic journalist working at high-profile news outlets in Washington, D.C. He illustrates how autistic people wrestle with education, workplace, and healthcare systems that weren’t built for them and dispels harmful myths, including the belief that autism is caused by vaccines and the misconception that autistic people don’t date. Most importantly, he puts into writing what so many autistic people have been saying for years: autism is a part of their identity, and they don’t need to be fixed.
Mr. Garcia is a senior Washington correspondent at The Independent. Previously, he was an assistant editor at the Washington Post‘s Outlook section and an associate editor at The Hill and a correspondent for National Journal, MarketWatch and Roll Call.
The event will be recorded and available later on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. A bonus after-hours event is also available to webinar attendees. For more information, visit www.familyactionnetwork.net.
David Brendel, MD, Ph.D., Ryan Stelzer, and Marianne Bertrand, Ph.D.
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“Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans,” will be held on Thursday, September 23, beginning at 7:00pm via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public, suitable for ages 12 and up. Registration is required.
How can we return humanity to the workplace? The answer, David Brendel, MD, Ph.D. and Ryan Stelzer argue in their new book Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans, has been with us for centuries. As ancient as the Socratic dialogue and as modern as the latest research in neurobiology, the discipline of active inquiry gives us a fundamentally different way of conducting human-work interactions. Through moving stories, Dr. Brendel and Mr. Stelzer show us how to think carefully about a challenge or an opportunity, engage in dialogue via open-ended questioning, and collaboratively build a strategy.
Dr. Brendel and Mr. Stelzer will be in conversation with Marianne Bertrand, Ph.D., the Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor.
The event will be recorded and available later on FAN’s website and YouTube channel. A bonus after-hours event is also available to webinar attendees. For more information, visit www.familyactionnetwork.net.
