
Steering Committee


Nancy Anderson
Associate Director, Residential Academic Initiatives
Yarrow Axford
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions & Recruitment, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Patricia A. Beddows
Director, Environmental Sciences Program; Assistant Chair, Earth & Planetary Sciences; Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth & Planetary Sciences; Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Mark Berry
One Book fellow
Neal Blair
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and Earth & Planetary Sciences; Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Jen Brown
Co-Director & Co-Founder, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities Center for Community Health, Northwestern University Institute for Public Health & Medicine, Lecturer, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
Bruce G. Carruthers
John D. MacArthur Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Nancy Cunniff
Director, One Book One Northwestern
Ruth Martin Curry
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Civic Engagement
Christopher Davidson
Campus & Community Engagement Librarian, User Experience Department of the NU Library
Jennifer B. Dunn
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience
Abigail Foerstner
Director-Graduate Science Journalism; Associate Professor, Clinical, Journalism; Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Tracey Gibson-Jackson
Associate Director, Student Organizations & Activities
Jim Hambleton
Louis Berger Junior Professor and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dee Hanlon
Alumnae of Northwestern University
Leslie Harris
Professor, History; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Teresa H. Horton
Associate Professor of Research; Department of Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Amy Iler
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Program of Plant Biology and Conservation; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Alicia Jones
One Book fellow
Dean Karlan
Professor of Economics and Finance, Frederic Esser Nemmers Chair, Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab NU Kellogg School of Management
Kiarri N Kershaw
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine; Feinberg School of Medicine
Greg Kozak
Director, Sustainability
Ivy Leung
Clinical Research Project Manager, Center for Health Equity Transformation, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Feinberg School of Medicine
Nancy Loeb
Clinical Professor of Law Director, Environmental Advocacy Center NU Pritzker School of Law
Eugene Lowe
Assistant to the President, President's Office
Madison McClellan
One Book fellow
Michael Metzger
Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum
William Miller
One Book Faculty ChairProfessor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Adilson Motter
Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Erin Northington
Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director, Campus and Community Education and Engagement, The Block Museum of Art
Justin Notestein
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aaron Packman
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Melissa Rosenzweig
Interim Director, Program in Environmental Policy and Culture; Assistant Professor of Instruction, Anthropology; Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Brad Sageman
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern Academic Director, Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Iliana Schmidt
One Book fellow
James Schwoch
Professor, Communication Studies; School of Communication
Linsey Seitz
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jessa Shortridge
One Book fellow
Ines Sommer
Associate Professor of Instruction; Associate Director, MFA in Documentary Media, Northwestern School of Communications
Barbara Spoerl
Alumnae of Northwestern University
Brittney Thompson
One Book Graduate Assistant
Suzan van der Lee
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Albert Wang
One Book fellow
Klaus Weber
Deputy Director, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs; Professor of Management & Organizations; Thomas G. Ayers Chair in Energy Resource Management, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
Mark Werwath
Clinical Full Professor; Executive Director of the Office of Professional Education; Director of Master of Engineering Management Program, Co-Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Mark Witte
Professor of Instruction, Economics; Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Keith Woodhouse
Associate Professor, History; Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Sera Young
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences