The 29th Annual Benefit Evening

Featuring

Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University

Honoring

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Civic Leadership Award, and Anita and Prabhakant Sinha, Humanists of the Year

6 PM Cocktails

7 PM Dinner and Program Featuring Steven Pinker in conversation with Walter E. Massey, President Emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist who has been named by Time as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Pinker is a Harvard professor, a TED speaker, and a bestselling author, twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2018, Pinker's book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress was published which is the follow-up to The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Had Declined, which was a #1 Amazon bestseller.

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Benefit Co-Chairs

Allegra E. Biery, Region President, Wealth Management, Northern Trust

Douglas H. Jackson, Greenhill & Co., LLC

Host Committee/Vice Chairs

Abbott

Allstate Insurance Company

Joseph and Leslie Antunovich

Leonard A. Gail and the Steans Family

ITW

Lynn and Douglas Jackson

R. Scott Falk and William G. Fraumann, Kirkland & Ellis

Allegra E. Biery, Northern Trust

Robert R. McCormick Foundation

Liz Stiffel

The Chicago Community Trust

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

Richard and Mary L. Gray Foundation

Anita and Prabhakant Sinha

Zell Family Foundation

The Annual Benefit proceeds allow the Chicago Humanities Festival to make exceptional artistic, cultural, and educational content affordable and accessible to as many people as possible.

For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact Gina Scalise at (312) 553-2000 or visit PJH Chicago.