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Join The Garage for a special event open to the entire Northwestern community. We'll be welcoming entrepreneur and author Dave Eggers and Medill Dean Charles Whitaker for a discussion and Q&A.

This event is open to the entire Northwestern community including faculty, staff, and students. Please RSVP with your Northwestern email address.

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is also the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers around the United States. Realizing the need for greater college access for low-income students, Eggers founded ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible.