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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On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory
Staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
Five-time New York Times bestselling author
Staff writer for The Atlantic and author
Soul Shift: The Weary Human’s Guide to Getting Unstuck and Reclaiming Your Path to Joy
New York Times bestselling author
Clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author
Quitting: A Life Strategy
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
I’m Still Here: Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me
Bestselling author, writer, speaker, and CEO of Herself Media
Award-winning journalist and author
The Power of Connection: Building Joy and Life Satisfaction
Trauma therapist and licensed professional counselor
It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
Co-host of NPR's "All Thing Considered"
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality and the director of Health Equity Integration for the Institute of Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago
Poverty, by America (Event 1 of 2)
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Poverty, by America (Event 2 of 2)
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Bestselling author, journalist, and professor at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University