Saturday, September 6th 12pm CT - Grace Place Stage Abbott Kahler, formerly writing as Karen Abbott, is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City; American Rose; Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy; and The Ghosts of Eden Park. She is also the host of Remus: The Mad Bootleg King, a podcast about ... Read more

Tracy Baim is executive director of Press Forward Chicago, a pooled fund for community journalism based at The Chicago Community Trust. Baim is co-founder and owner of Windy City Times. She is former publisher of the Chicago Reader. Baim has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Journalists Association. She ... Read more

Saturday, September 6th 11:30am CT - Center Stage Karen Su is the author of Asian American Leaders Like Us biographies on Grace Lee Boggs, Philp Vera Cruz, Yuri Kochiyama, and Dalip Singh Saund. She was awarded the Many Voices Prize by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators-IL in 2022 and was a We ... Read more