Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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The Marriage of Words and Pictures
Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Award-winning bestselling author of numerous books for children and young adults
Award-winning children's book illustrator
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Writer, essayist, and New York Times bestselling author
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
National reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Deputy chief of U.S. news, The Wall Street Journal
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Principal at Black Futures Lab and author of "The Purpose of Power"
Founder and CEO, Chicago Beyond
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Journalist and author
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents
Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer, Cultures of Dignity
Co-Founder and CEO, Cultures of Dignity
Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
Founders, CreativeSoul Photography
Award-winning journalist and author
Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good
Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care; Estelle and Edgar Levi Memorial Chair in Aging; Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging; Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at UC San Diego; Co-Director of the UCSD-IBM Center on Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living
Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and Director/Founder of the Center for Practical Wisdom, The University of Chicago
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Deakin University
Science writer, broadcaster, and researcher
Grown & Flown: A Conversation on How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
Co-founder, Grown and Flown
Author, "How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American"