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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The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Grown & Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington
Co-Founders, Grown and Flown
Fair Play: A System for Domestic Rebalance
Author, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live), and Founder, Philanthropy Advising Group.
The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates
National Book Award-winning author of We Were Eight Years in Power, Between the World and Me, and The Water Dancer.
Grand Rounds: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine.
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine.
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School
Distinguished Professor in Residence, Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
Bestselling author of How Children Succeed, Helping Children Succeed, and the forthcoming The Years That Matter Most