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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Traumatized: Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress
Licensed marriage and family therapist and author
Comedian, filmmaker, and mental health advocate
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
Executive Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University
Professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America
What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home
Clinical Neuropsychologist and Founder, The Stixrud Group
Author, Speaker, and Founder, PrepMatters
Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans
Co-founder, Strategy of Mind
Co-founder, Strategy of Mind
Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Senior Washington correspondent at The Independent and author of We’re Not Broken
Award-winning science writer and author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Run: Book One – A Conversation with Andrew Aydin
National Book Award winner and co-author, with Rep. John Lewis, of the "March" graphic novel trilogy.
Author and poet
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Author of multiple New York Times bestsellers and the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS
Senior rabbi, Am Shalom, Glencoe, IL
Letters to My White Male Friends: A Conversation with Dax-Devlon Ross, J.D.
Author and principal at the social impact consultancies Dax-Dev and Third Settlements.
Superintendent, Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University
Professor of History, Boston College
Hunt, Gather, Parent: Raising Happy, Healthy, Little Humans
Author and global health correspondent, NPR Science Desk
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health