Northwestern Intersections

Gutierrez has won Emmy nominations and made the 2022 "Forbes 30 Under 30" list as the youngest-ever national correspondent for NBC News. She has also been featured in award-winning reports on MSNBC and on the news shows  Dateline  and  TODAY . Join us as we discuss her skillful storytelling.

Raghav Khosla, an undergrad in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, came back from Paris with a lifetime of memories after working as an intern for NBC Universal at the Olympic Games. Learn about his summer dream job and  Northwestern's many connections to the 2024 games.

Michael Herwitz is a director and producer and one of the youngest people ever to direct an original play on Broadway. His production,  Job , is produced by fellow Northwestern alum Russell Kahn, who runs the Rachel Brosnahan-founded production company Scrap Paper Pictures. Learn more about the show and how the duo has worked together to make it possible.

Katz is a founding figure in the field of queer art history. As a professor and scholar, he has undertaken formative projects in gay and lesbian studies. While at the City College of San Francisco, he served as the first tenured gay and lesbian studies faculty member in the US; in 1995, he founded the Harvey Milk Institute, which was once the world's largest queer studies institute. Learn more abo...

Cooper is a clinical psychotherapist who works with members of the LGBTQ2+ community. He previously worked in marketing before earning his doctorate at Cambridge University, a path inspired by his research as a Northwestern student. Learn more about his research interests and what Pride Month means to him.

Hong Duffin is the president and CEO of Kenneth Young Center, a community health organization in the Chicago suburbs. With experience in public policy, law, and human services, she serves on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Learn about her work with mental and physical wellness and her role on the NU-A5 board.

Jurowicz is a lawyer and assistant attorney general for the special litigation bureau in the Illinois attorney general's office. Since graduating from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, she has worked on numerous projects centering around human rights. Jurowicz serves on the board of the Northwestern University Asian and Asian American Alumni Association (NU-A5)

Join us for a conversation with five alumni of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Learn about the medical school experience and Northwestern's Feinberg alumni community from Darren Wethers '88 MD; Boris Sheynin '99 MD; David Lee '89 MD; Jeff Schaider '83, '85 MD; and Nupur Ghoshal '01 PhD, '03 MD.

This special episode centers around the cast and crew of the upcoming film  Play the Game: A Jock 'N' Roll Story. Directed by Mesa and executive produced by Versen and Korzilius, the film covers the incredible true story of how a group of Northwestern football players, including the executive producers, worked as security for the band Queen in its heyday. Join us as we discuss this wild career mov...

Kelsheimer is a college admissions adviser based in greater New York City. She previously served as a high school music instructor and a college professor before moving into her current role, where she helps students and families find their best fit for college. Join us as she gives advice to parents on the college admissions landscape and shares tips for students on how to market themselves in a...

Adina Bezerita is a Romanian-American, award-winning Oxford-Cambridge philosopher and scholar, whose works pioneer interdisciplinary projects in ancient wisdom relevant to contemporary thought across the humanities and sciences. With her Numinous Threads foundation (2016), Adina provides leadership, education, consultation and collaboration to individuals, profit and non-profit organizations and t...

Byington is a play-by-play commentator who has covered major sports events, including the Women's World Cup and Olympic Games. She's the first woman to do play-by-play for the NCAA men's basketball tournament and for a men's professional basketball team, the Milwaukee Bucks. Hubbarth is an Emmy Award–winning Evanston native who works as an anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter ,  NBA Tonight , and  First...

Frishman is an author and former news reporter and editor. She has written human interest and medical health articles and recently began writing children's books. Her recent book, Nina Allender: Suffrage Cartoonist , illuminates the life and work of an underappreciated hero in the women's suffrage movement. Join us as we discuss how she helped tell the story of one of America's first female politi...

Marsh has served the University in countless meaningful ways, including as president of the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association (NUBAA), a member of the Northwestern University Leadership Circle (NULC) Chicago Regional Board, and a host of alumni events at her jazz club, M Lounge, in Chicago's South Loop. She was an importer-exporter of American blue jeans in Europe before returning t...

Join us for a special episode celebrating alumni who coupled up at Northwestern. Six guests share short stories about finding true love on campus. Take a break from the cold and warm your heart with tales of campus romance.

McCollough Seletzky was a litigator before becoming an award-winning writer and memoirist with work featured in the  Atlantic, O Magazine,  and the  New York Times.  Join us as we discuss her memoir,  The Kneeling Man: My Father' s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ,   and her journey to discover her family history.

Skladany is an icon across industries, working as a television and radio personality, writer, editor, publicist, and lifestyle content expert. He has worked on countless projects with recognizable brands, from  People  magazine and Apartment Therapy to Food Network and CBS. Join us as we discuss his ubiquitous career path and the lessons he has learned from working in multiple industries.

Hahn and Sandler met on campus and have been a Northwestern power couple ever since! Their careers have included acting and producing credits on some of Hollywood's most memorable productions, from  New Girl  and  Meet the Robinsons  to  WandaVision and  Private Life.   Join us as they discuss their time at Northwestern, finding their way in Hollywood, and working together in the industry. 

Kliegman is a sportswriter and copy chief at Sports Illustrated . Her journalism often focuses on underrepresented topics in sports and society, including gender, asexuality, and mental health. She shares valuable lessons on working as a sports journalist and finding stories that matter. Join us as we discuss her important work and her upcoming book, Mind Games: An Inside Look at the Mental Health...

Gallagher is a television producer and author based in Los Angeles. She worked on MTV's wildly successful The Real World and went on to become an executive producer for several major reality TV shows, including The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, and Married at First Sight . Join us as she talks about her time in Hollywood and how she found the inspiration for her Twist...

Jackson is an author, playwright, and poet currently serving as the Illinois Poet Laureate. She is a Chicagoan through and through, having grown up on the South Side, and uses her experiences in the area as inspiration for her poems and novels. Her works have been awarded major literary honors, including the Pushcart Prize, Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and American Book Award. Join us as we talk...

Lord is a Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist, an author, and a Vietnam War veteran. He went from a career in television news management to writing the book, 50 Years After Vietnam: Lessons and Letters from the War I Hated Fighting, in 2018. Lord has reported in several major American cities, including Nashville, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, and was also a correspondent for NBC...

Arana is a prize-winning author, literary critic, and inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress. She has been an executive at publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Harcourt Brace, a judge for the National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, a Latin America columnist for the New York Times editorial page, a media commentator for numerous news outlets, and editor in chief of Book World at...

Alomá is a CEO, lecturer, and author based in Chicago. He went from working in communications and consulting to lecturing at Northwestern to founding his own marketing company, Threadline. Alomá applies his knowledge of narrative psychology to the practice of marketing and branding, serving as a self-described "couples therapist" for clients and their customers. Join us as Alomá talks about his jo...

Ginni Rometty came to Northwestern after a challenging childhood and left with a computer science degree that would help her change the world of technology. In 1981, she joined IBM as a systems engineer and worked her way to becoming chairman, president and CEO of the company. Ms. Rometty helped revolutionize the global tech giant in the 2010s and became one of the country's most influential busin...