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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Face Forward: Leading Courageously in Crisis
Historian and James E. Robinson Chair of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Head of School, North Shore Country Day School
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Bestselling Author, Army Combat Veteran, Social Entrepreneur, and Chief Executive Officer of Robin Hood
Video/Broadcast Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Midwest Made: Poets in Chicago
Author, educator, lit editor
Poet, performer, teaching artist
Author, performer, educator
Executive Director, 826CHI
Writer, performer, educator, composer, producer, visual artist, activist
Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
Clinical Psychologist and Author
Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Parenting Under Covid-19
Psychologist, author, New York Times columnist, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host
EVENT POSTPONED! Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Risk and The Weill Cornell Women’s Brain Initiative
Associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
EVENT POSTPONED! The XX Brain: Maximizing Women’s Cognitive Health
Associate professor of neuroscience in Neurology and Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Love, Sex, and Intimacy
Award-winning author, podcast host, professor, and licensed clinical psychologist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University