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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Riding the Crisis Roller Coaster: Positioning Yourself Emotionally Amidst Volatility
Historian and James E. Robinson Chair of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Northwestern University
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own – A Conversation between Eddie Glaude Jr., Ph.D. and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
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, Teacher, Speaker, Consultant, New York Times Columnist
POSTPONED! Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Risk and The Weill Cornell Women’s Brain Initiative
Director of the Women's Brain Initiative and Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College
POSTPONED! The XX Brain: Maximizing Women’s Cognitive Health
Director of the Women's Brain Initiative and Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College