Illinois Schools at a Glance: Issues, Progress, and Local Realities Amber Quirk, Regional Superintendent of Schools
2025-08-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom Meeting
Join us on Wednesday, August 13, at 7:00 p.m. (via Zoom) for our monthly Ideas Forum. Regional Superintendent Amber Quirk will provide an insightful look into what’s happening inside Illinois schools today, both across the state and right here in Naperville.
In this one-hour virtual session, Amber will unpack the trends shaping our schools: how funding affects student opportunities, the growing impact of chronic absenteeism, evolving approaches to school safety, and the expansion of career pathways designed to prepare students for life beyond high school.
Expect a candid conversation about where we’re making progress, where we’re falling short, and what these realities mean for our community.
Whether you’re a parent, educator, or community member who cares about the future of education, this event will give you a clearer picture of the challenges and successes within our local districts.
You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how these issues influence classrooms in our county—and specifically Naperville schools.
This event is free, but please register.
Amber Quirk is the Regional Superintendent of Schools, supporting public and private schools in DuPage County. Ms. Quirk matriculated from Indiana, where she attended Purdue University.
She graduated with a BA in Secondary Education, majoring in Health and Safety and minoring in Biology. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Leadership and Administration from North Central College and will have her Superintendent License through Northern Illinois University in August 2025. Ms. Quirk taught her first year in Scituate, MA, and another eleven years in Lombard School District 44.
During her time in Lombard, she taught 6th graders reading and science, coached several sports teams, actively participated on the school improvement council, and supported colleagues as an instructional coach. She became an assistant principal, then principal, serving the families of Maercker School District 60 in the Southeast corner of DuPage County for eight years.
Ms. Quirk continued her administrative career at the Regional Office of Education, first as the Assistant Regional Superintendent, followed by her current elected position of Regional Superintendent.
She is a wife, mother of three wonderful teenage daughters, and two dogs. She enjoys spending free time with family, working out, and watching sports. She is passionate about supporting students, keeping them safe, and helping them gain access to helpful pathways for their futures.

August Book Club - Friday: White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
2025-08-15 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our August book club meeting on Friday 15th, at 12:30pm.
Author: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
From GoodReads:
When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber—now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation’s poor and the “closest person we have to Dr. King” (Cornel West)—addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food, education, and housing as a “salve” for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America’s lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.

August Book Club - Tuesday: White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
2025-08-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our August book club meeting on Tuesday 19th, at 7pm.
Author: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
From GoodReads:
When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber—now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation’s poor and the “closest person we have to Dr. King” (Cornel West)—addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food, education, and housing as a “salve” for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America’s lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.

September Book Club - Friday: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
2025-09-19 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our September book club meeting on Friday 19th, at 12:30pm.
Authors: Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
From GoodReads:
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

September Book Club - Tuesday: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
2025-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our September book club meeting on Tuesday 23rd, at 7pm.
Authors: Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
From GoodReads:
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

October Book Club - Friday: We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
2025-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our October book club meeting on Friday 17th, at 12:30pm.
Author: Eric Garcia
From GoodReads:
Autistic person and journalist Eric Garcia brings an insider’s perspective and a reporter’s eye to show that autism is a vital part of his community’s humanity, not a disease that needs to be cured.

October Book Club - Tuesday: We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
2025-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our October book club meeting on Tuesday 21st, at 7pm.
Author: Eric Garcia
From GoodReads:
Autistic person and journalist Eric Garcia brings an insider’s perspective and a reporter’s eye to show that autism is a vital part of his community’s humanity, not a disease that needs to be cured.

SNAP-Ed: A Vital Investment in Illinois Families and Communities
2025-11-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us on November 11th at 7:00 pm via Zoom for this month’s Ideas Forum, “SNAP-Ed: A Vital Investment in Illinois Families and Communities.”
This event is free, but please register at https://rebrand.ly/nov11-ideasforum.
There is more to SNAP than the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. SNAP-Ed teaches SNAP participants how to use their food resources wisely to strengthen the health and well-being of their families. With the government shutdown still in effect at the time of this posting, and with SNAP funds unavailable, this is more important than ever.

In this Forum, you will hear how SNAP-Ed helps families make nutritious food choices, stretch their food dollars, and increase physical activity.

The session also explores partnerships with schools, food pantries and community organizations that create lasting, healthy changes—and demonstrates the strong return on investment SNAP-Ed provides to Illinois communities.
Our speaker, Christine Birns, is a SNAP-Ed educator with the University of Illinois Extension. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Development & Family Sciences from Northern Illinois University and a master’s degree in Social Work from University of Illinois at Chicago with an emphasis in child and family services.

Birns works with food pantries, K-12 schools, adult and youth community programs, and early childcare centers providing technical assistance at the systems and environmental levels. She provides assistance on nutrition education and obesity prevention to help make the healthy choice the easy choice.

November Book Club - Friday: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
2025-11-21 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our November book club meeting on Friday 21st, at 12:30pm.
Author: Uché Blackstock
From GoodReads:
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

November Book Club - Tuesday: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
2025-11-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our November book club meeting on Tuesday 25th, at 7pm.
Author: Uché Blackstock
From GoodReads:
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

How Are Federal Funding Cuts and Policies Affecting Research In Higher Education?
2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for our December Ideas Forum on Wednesday, December 10th, at 7:00 pm via Zoom.
In February, the government announced cuts to funding and grants to research institutions across the U.S. Around the same time, immigration raids in the Chicago metro area began in earnest. What happens to research and lab experiments when funding is revoked? How are student relations affected by the active presence of federal immigration agents in the community?
Dr. Timothy Koh, professor of kinesiology and nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Applied Health Sciences, and Dr. Jeni Hebert-Beirne, professor of community health sciences at UIC’s School of Public Health, have both been dealing with the impacts of these and other federal actions, including DEI mandates. They will discuss how they’re navigating the changes to their research, classes, and institution.
This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Koh has been focused on the mechanisms that regulate tissue inflammation and healing, in the context of diabetes, where impaired healing can lead to amputation or death. Dr. Koh is also passionate about training students for their own research careers.

Dr. Hebert-Beirne is a community-based participatory researcher, doing qualitative research to promote health equity and justice, particularly in Chicago. Her scholarship focuses on people most impacted by health inequities.

How Secure ARE Your Voting Rights?
2026-01-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join us on January 14th at 7:00 pm via Zoom for our Monthly Ideas Forum.
Current pending legislation, such as the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act), executive orders, and court cases, could negatively impact your ability to vote and for your vote to be counted. During this discussion, you’ll learn about what changes are being proposed, the burdens they would place on voters, and how to advocate for free and fair elections.
This event is free, but please register: https://rebrand.ly/Jan14-IdeasForum.
Our speakers:
Dr. David Goldberg is a Professor of Political Science at the College of DuPage, teaching international relations, comparative politics, and American politics. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University in 2003. Dr. Goldberg has an interest in democracy and democratic norms in Latin America and the Caribbean Community, U.S. foreign policies, and international relations.

Brandy Johnson is a decorated and widely published Assistant Professor with Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School. While in private practice, Professor Johnson specialized in Illinois and Missouri workers’ compensation law and appellate advocacy, and gained experience in premises liability, personal injury, products liability, and other areas of insurance defense. She serves on the board for the Illinois Chapter of the United Spinal Association.

This event is co-hosted with AAUW – Naperville.

January Book Club - Friday: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
2026-01-16 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our January Book Club meeting on Friday, January 16th, at 12:30 pm via Zoom. Please register.
Title: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Author: Rob Henderson
Good Reads Description:
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.

January Book Club - Tuesday: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
2026-01-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on January 20th at 7 pm for our January Book Club! Please register.
Title: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Author: Rob Henderson
Good Reads Description:
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.

Candidate Forum - DuPage County Board District 5 Primary
2026-02-10 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Learn more about the candidates running for the DuPage County Board District 5 Primary and their views and answers to questions from the community. This Zoom event is on February 10th at 6:30 pm.
Sadia Covert (D)
Marylee Leu (D)
Ian Holzhauer (D)
** All candidates have been invited **
This event is sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Naperville.
This event is free, but you must register: https://rebrand.ly/District5-forum.

If registration for the event exceeds the Zoom capacity, you can watch it live on our Facebook page. After the event, a video will be available on our YouTube channel.
How a Candidate Forum Works
All candidate forums are run by trained, nonpartisan, and out-of-district moderators. Candidates are given equal time to answer each question.
Each candidate will have two minutes to present an opening statement alphabetically.
Questions will be chosen in advance by the League for appropriateness and relevance from those solicited from League members and community members. Questions are not shared with the candidates before the forum.
The moderator will ask questions in rotation so that a different candidate will have the opportunity to be the first to answer. Candidates will each have up to two minutes to answer each question.
After the questions are completed, each candidate will have two minutes to provide a closing statement.
No surrogates are permitted to participate. An uncontested forum, that is, one with only one candidate, is not permitted. Should a candidate be legally disqualified from vote tabulation prior to our forum (as determined by their status on the State Board of Election Website or the result of legal action), that candidate will not appear in our forum per our forum ground rules.
For non-partisan election information, visit VOTE411.

Candidate Forum - IL 11th Congressional District Primary
2026-02-10 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Learn more about the candidates running for the IL 11th Congressional District Primary and their views and answers to questions from the community. This Zoom event is on February 10th at 8:00 pm.
Tedora Brown (R)- Objection Pending
Charlie Kim (R)
Mike Pierce (R)
Jeff Walter (R)
** All candidates have been invited **
This event is sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Naperville.
This event is free, but you must register: https://rebrand.ly/11thcongress-forum.

If registration for the event exceeds the Zoom capacity, you can watch it live on our Facebook page. After the event, a video will be available on our YouTube channel.
How a Candidate Forum Works
All candidate forums are run by trained, nonpartisan, and out-of-district moderators. Candidates are given equal time to answer each question.
Each candidate will have two minutes to present an opening statement alphabetically.
Questions will be chosen in advance by the League for appropriateness and relevance from those solicited from League members and community members. Questions are not shared with the candidates before the forum.
The moderator will ask questions in rotation so that a different candidate will have the opportunity to be the first to answer. Candidates will each have up to two minutes to answer each question.
After the questions are completed, each candidate will have two minutes to provide a closing statement.
No surrogates are permitted to participate. An uncontested forum, that is, one with only one candidate, is not permitted. Should a candidate be legally disqualified from vote tabulation prior to our forum (as determined by their status on the State Board of Election Website or the result of legal action), that candidate will not appear in our forum per our forum ground rules.
For non-partisan election information, visit VOTE411.

February Book Group - Friday: A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
2026-02-20 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on February 20th at 12:30 pm for our Book Group event. Please register!
A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
Author: Adam Benforado
Good Reads Description:
A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives. Drawing on the latest scientific research into the remarkable capabilities and crucial needs of young people, A Minor Revolution offers a bold vision for the future.

February Book Group - Tuesday: A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
2026-02-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for our February Book Group event on Tuesday, February 24th, at 7 pm. Please register!
A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
Author: Adam Benforado
GoodReads Description:
A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on
why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives. Drawing on the latest scientific
research into the remarkable capabilities and crucial needs of young people, A Minor
Revolution offers a bold vision for the future.

March Book Group - Friday: The Confidante: The Untold Story of The Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
2026-03-20 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, March 20th, at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
The Confidante: The Untold Story of The Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape
Modern America
Author: Christopher C. Gorham
GoodReads Description:
The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who
became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II. Though she was not quite a hidden figure,
Rosenberg’s position as “the power behind,” combined with her status as an immigrant and a
Jewish woman, served to diminish her importance. In this inspiring, impeccably researched, and
revelatory book, Christopher C. Gorham at last affords Anna Rosenberg the recognition she so
richly deserves.

March Book Group - Tuesday: The Confidante: The Untold Story of The Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
2026-03-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Tuesday, March 24th, at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
The Confidante: The Untold Story of The Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape
Modern America
Author: Christopher C. Gorham
GoodReads Description:
The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who
became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II. Though she was not quite a hidden figure,
Rosenberg’s position as “the power behind,” combined with her status as an immigrant and a
Jewish woman, served to diminish her importance. In this inspiring, impeccably researched, and
revelatory book, Christopher C. Gorham at last affords Anna Rosenberg the recognition she so
richly deserves.

April Book Group - Friday: Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
2026-04-14 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, April 17th, at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
Author: Grace L. Williams
GoodReads Description:
In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys’ club of banking
and finance, women were still infantilized—no credit without a male cosigner, and their income
was dismissed as unreliable. Give Her Credit follows the challenges, uphill battles, and
achievements of some of the enterprising women of Denver who broke boundaries, inspired
millions, and afforded opportunities for every marginalized citizen in the country.

April Book Group - Tuesday: Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
2026-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Tuesday, April 21st, at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
Author: Grace L. Williams
GoodReads Description:
In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys’ club of banking
and finance, women were still infantilized—no credit without a male cosigner, and their income
was dismissed as unreliable. Give Her Credit follows the challenges, uphill battles, and
achievements of some of the enterprising women of Denver who broke boundaries, inspired
millions, and afforded opportunities for every marginalized citizen in the country.

May Book Group - Friday: Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
2026-05-15 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, May 15th, at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
Author: Grace L. Williams
GoodReads Description:
An ambitious and passionate exploration of what’s gone wrong with pregnancy in America,
through the lens of history, politics, and the searing experiences of five women. Unbearable
introduces us to five women navigating pregnancy care—from that first positive pregnancy test
through joy, loss, and the unforeseen—in a country that is at best indifferent and at worst
willfully cruel, and to brave, outnumbered people fighting to make it better.

May Book Group - Tuesday: Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
2026-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, May 19th, at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
Author: Grace L. Williams
GoodReads Description:
An ambitious and passionate exploration of what’s gone wrong with pregnancy in America,
through the lens of history, politics, and the searing experiences of five women. Unbearable
introduces us to five women navigating pregnancy care—from that first positive pregnancy test
through joy, loss, and the unforeseen—in a country that is at best indifferent and at worst
willfully cruel, and to brave, outnumbered people fighting to make it better.

June Book Group - Friday: Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
2026-06-19 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, June 19th, at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Author: George M. Johnson
GoodReads Description:
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson
explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the
memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving
grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the
trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

June Book Group - Tuesday: Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
2026-06-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, June 23rd, at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Author: George M. Johnson
GoodReads Description:
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson
explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the
memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving
grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the
trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

July Book Group - Friday: We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
2026-07-17 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, July 17th, at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Author: Jill Lepore
GoodReads Description:
In this landmark, lavishly illustrated book, Harvard professor of history and law Jill Lepore
argues that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism.
Lepore offers a sweeping, lyrical, and democratic constitutional history, telling the stories of
generations of Americans who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College
to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend America by amending its constitution.

July Book Group - Tuesday: We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
2026-07-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Tuesday, July 21st, at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Author: Jill Lepore
GoodReads Description:
In this landmark, lavishly illustrated book, Harvard professor of history and law Jill Lepore
argues that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism.
Lepore offers a sweeping, lyrical, and democratic constitutional history, telling the stories of
generations of Americans who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College
to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend America by amending its constitution.

August Book Group - Friday: Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
2026-08-21 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Friday, August 21st at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Author: Rachel Kolb
GoodReads Description:
Rachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) was passed, and she grew up as part of the first generation of deaf people with legal
rights to accessibility services. Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Kolb details a life lived
among words in varied sensory forms and considers why and how those words matter. Told
through rich storytelling, analysis, and humor, Articulate is a linguistic coming-of-age in both
deaf and hearing worlds, challenging us to consider how language expresses our
humanity—and offering more ways we might exist together.

August Book Group - Tuesday: Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
2026-08-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us on Tuesday, August 25th at 7 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Author: Rachel Kolb
GoodReads Description:
Rachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) was passed, and she grew up as part of the first generation of deaf people with legal
rights to accessibility services. Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Kolb details a life lived
among words in varied sensory forms and considers why and how those words matter. Told
through rich storytelling, analysis, and humor, Articulate is a linguistic coming-of-age in both
deaf and hearing worlds, challenging us to consider how language expresses our
humanity—and offering more ways we might exist together.
