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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Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours
Writer, teacher, and advocate
Two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award winning actor
I Am a Girl from Africa: The Power of Community, Perseverance, and Education
Award-winning humanitarian and former United Nations Senior Advisor on Gender Equality
Founder and CEO of Character Lab, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
Author, "How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American"
Founding member of the Honors BIPOC Coalition, Loyola University Chicago
Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry
27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church
Twelfth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago (2008-2020)
Love Without Reason
Founder, Lunch on Me
Producer, writer, speaker, and mindfulness meditation teacher
The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms
Assistant Chief Counsel for ABC News and author, "The Fight for Free Speech"
Author and former mayor of Charlottesville, VA
Power, Agency, and Identity: Reflections on Girlhood
Award-winning author and associate professor at the University of Iowa
“Ask Polly” advice columnist and essayist
Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Understanding
Author and award-winning journalist
Author, travel writer, and award-winning syndicated radio host
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Poet, essayist, and cultural critic
Award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper.
The Empathy Diaries: An Evening with Sherry Turkle, Ph.D.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT
Senior Rabbi at North Shore Congregation Israel