Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
Browse our past events by year or topic — you can download previous flyers here, too.
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Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm
Six-time NBA All-Star and two-time gold medalist for the United States Men’s Basketball Team
New York Times bestselling poet, essayist, and cultural critic
You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Mental Health
Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH
Associate Medical Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Tramaine Presley, Psy.D., LCPC, LMHC
Director of Child, Adolescent, and Family Services at The Family Institute at Northwestern University
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Award-winning journalist and author
Award-winning journalist and author
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Award-winning journalist, writer, and host of the podcast "This Land," and citizen of Cherokee Nation
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D. (Lumbee)
Dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors
Award-winning journalist and author, and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)
Associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University
Board-certified general and child and adolescent psychiatrist and Medical Director of Meridian Psychiatric Partners’ Child & Adolescent Division
Twenty-four Seconds from Now: An Evening with Jason Reynolds
2024 MacArthur Fellow and #1 New York Times bestselling author
Leaders as Futurists: Cultivating Civic Imagination for a Dynamic World
Lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school
Professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America