Winter Events
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November 8th, 2025
The holiday season is just about upon us. I can’t believe it arrived so quickly.
This time of year, we slow down our event schedule as everyone’s priorities shift towards family time. Just a couple more to tell you about, and then I will sign off for the year.
I wish everyone a safe, joyful season. I will reach out again in the new year.
November 13th, 2025
An Evening With
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun
The First Black Woman in the US Senate
Moderated by Ambassador Ertharin Cousin
Join us on Thursday, November 13th 5:30 pm
as they converse about her remarkable life, and celebrate
In TRAILBLAZER, Moseley Braun details her stormy childhood in post-World War II Chicago up to her many firsts since entering politics in the 1970s, shattering ceilings and making history. The first Black woman ever elected to the Senate. The first Black woman on the Senate Judiciary committee. The first woman to represent the state of Illinois in Congress. The first Black woman to serve as a U.S Ambassador to New Zealand.
TRAILBLAZER is a story of perseverance, a moving narrative from a once-in-a-generation icon, steeped in the history of our nation. Carol Moseley Braun offers readers her uniquely American story and an optimistic letter to future generations on the work we have done and have yet to do, to ensure that the United States lives up to the promise of liberty and justice for all.
Ertharin Cousin currently serves as the Managing Director and CEO of FSF Ventures, an impact investment fund, and as the CEO of Food Systems for the Future Institute, the Fund’s sister nonprofit. Each organization supports her vision of a world without hunger and malnutrition. Ambassador Cousin also serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, Center on Food Security and Environment.
Please register for this FREE event here:
December 9, 2025
after-words Banned Books Club Meeting
6:30pm
after-words Event Space
For our final Book Club meeting of the year, we have chosen a spooky story to curl up with against the cold.
This selection is Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie.
Carrie is most frequently challenged and or banned because of its violence, underage sex, foul language, and negative view of religion to a degree that some consider satanic. We have chosen to discuss this banned horror book in December to honor the tradition of telling scary stories over the winter holidays. This is the book that launched Stephen King into stardom and inspired the Brian de Palma movie.
