Parlay House Events

“Mom, everyone thinks I’m a girl and I’m not. I’m a boy. I don’t feel like a boy, I am a boy, mama.” These are the words Jodie Patterson’s two-year-old child spoke to her one day following a streak of…

For most of us, there is often a disconnection between how we look and how we feel. Being “thin” is admired, and considered the definition of health and beauty. It’s proof that we have our lives, our food, and our exercise under…

This event is presented in partnership with The Battery: IN-Q, an award-winning poet who was named to Oprah’s list of the 100 most influential thought leaders, will lead us through a poetry-storytelling workshop that will bring us peace, inspiration, and deeper…

We live in a world full of judgment, discord and anger. Relationships are strained, lines are drawn and the issues that divide us seem to be more heated than ever. The only way to reverse this trend and find common…

How many “likes” do you get and give each day on social media? For most of us, technology is providing windows into other people’s lives, and we are relying on it even more while we are socially distancing. Is that…

Good negotiators are aggressive, stubborn, and unemotional, right? Wrong, says author, Wharton Business School Faculty Member, and this week’s Parlay House speaker Mori Taheripour. Join us to hear her radically different perspective that will give you the tools you need…

Is college still a path to the American Dream? While there are 1.2 million low-income or first-generation college graduates each year, only one in four will receive a strong first job. This week, we hope you will join us as…

The Mask You Live In documentary brought to us by The Representation Project, follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by everyone around them from peers…

Unstoppable. Many of us try to power through the obstacles life throws our way. But our guest speaker this week, Jessica Oliveira-Haddad, takes unstoppability to a whole new level. Born to undocumented immigrants in NYC, Jessica had to grapple with her parents’…