Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It’s Time to Heal But You’re Not Sure You Want To
Award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate
Writer, essayist, and New York Times bestselling author
Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive
Award-winning author, podcast host, professor, and licensed clinical psychologist, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
Psychotherapist, podcast host, and New York Times bestselling author
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought
Platinum-selling, three-time Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots
Artist, archivist, curator, and professor and Special Advisor to the President at the University of Chicago
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Award-winning bestselling author and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times
Bestselling author of "I Miss You When I Blink" and "Bomb Shelter"
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
New York Times bestselling author
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections
Host of the "Higher Ed Spotlight" podcast and visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development
Incoming president of the Valhalla Foundation and former Director in the U.S. Education Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health
Chief Science Officer of the American Psychological Association and the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill and co-director of the Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain, and Psychological Development
Child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Compass Health Center and Compass Virtual
Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
Educator, consultant, and author of Growing Up in Public and Screenwise
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
Pulitzer Prize-winning senior writer for The New York Times
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
Science writer, author, and founder and president of SciComm Services
Social psychologist, author, professor, and chair of organizational behavior at Cornell University's ILR School