Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Quiet and Bittersweet
Social psychologist, professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center
Award-winning journalist and author, and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Journalist, entrepreneur, and author
Co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, and director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program
Roadmap to a Brighter Future: Reimagining and Realizing America’s Possibilities
Chairman emeritus of Kearney and founder of its Global Business Policy Council
Senior Director of the International Strategic Response team at Meta, and former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Office of Legislative Affairs
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Co-author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics.
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School
Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management
Editor-at-large at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UCSB School of Environment
Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Atlantic
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
“Ask Polly” advice columnist on Substack, essayist, and author
New York Times bestselling author and an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts
Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World
Author, social worker, co-host of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, and co-creator of the Zen Parenting Conference
Maru Torres-Gregory, JD, Ph.D., LMFT
Couples and family therapist and faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program atThe Family Institute at Northwestern University