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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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
Co-host of NPR's "All Thing Considered"
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality and the director of Health Equity Integration for the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago
Poverty, by America (Event 1 of 2)
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Poverty, by America (Event 2 of 2)
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Bestselling author, journalist, and professor at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University
Staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing
Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author and writer
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Licensed therapist, sought-after relationship expert, and New York Times bestselling author
Three-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker, podcast host, and multimedia entrepreneur
GRAND ROUNDS: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness
Creator of the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model and author of five books
Chief Clinical Officer, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
You Marvelous, Multipart You: An Introduction to Internal Family Systems
Creator of the Internal Family Systems therapeutic model and author of five books
Licensed therapist and founder of Black Therapists Rock
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers (Event 2 of 2)
Psychologist, author, New York Times columnist, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host