James Doty, MD: Into the Magic Shop

04/21/2016 @ 7:00 pm – James Doty, MD and Tenzin Priyadarshi Open to General Public James R. Doty, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), where he researches the neuroscience of compassion and altruism. He is also a philanthropist funding health […]

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Shaka Senghor: Writing My Wrongs

03/16/2016 @ 6:00 pm –   In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at universities, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands.In life, it’s not how you start that matters. It’s how you finish.Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side […]

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Geek Heresy: What’s Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology

11/03/2015 @ 4:30 pm – Open to General Public    Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, he co-founded Microsoft Research India […]

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