Meeting of the Minds Event The Impact of Effective Storytelling

Rolnik is a clinical professor of strategic management at Booth. For the past 28 years, he has lived and worked at the intersection of business, finance, regulation, politics, and the media. First as a financial journalist and editor, later as a business entrepreneur and founder of a media company, and in the last decade as a policy entrepreneur—using media to drive structural reforms in the economy. Rolnik’s work as founder and chief editor of a leading business newspaper dramatically influenced the ideas, norms, and values in Israeli political economy and brought about significant changes in regulatory policies and legislation.

Tran is an associate professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago. He is a novelist and short story writer whose fiction primarily concerns the Vietnamese diaspora in America and the ongoing and inherited effects of displacement. His first novel, Dragonfish, was a 2015 New York Times Notable Book. His fiction has also appeared in publications such as the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Best American Mystery Stories. He won a 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award for Fiction, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and other organizations.