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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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Award-winning journalist, writer, and host of the podcast "This Land," and citizen of Cherokee Nation
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D. (Lumbee)
Dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Author and Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors
Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It)
Associate professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World
Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University
Board-certified general and child and adolescent psychiatrist and Medical Director of Meridian Psychiatric Partners’ Child & Adolescent Division
Twenty-four Seconds from Now: An Evening with Jason Reynolds
2024 MacArthur Fellow and #1 New York Times bestselling author
Leaders as Futurists: Cultivating Civic Imagination for a Dynamic World
Lecturer and the Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school
Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
Architect, public thought leader, and the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU)
Dean and the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future
Designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school
Writer, designer, and the creative director at the Stanford d.school
Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America
Rising Together: Crafting Connections Through Baking
Co-owner and Director of Baking Operations at Hewn Bakery
Celebrated participant in the 2021 season of The Great British Bake Off and cookbook author
14-time Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist and host of CBS2’s Got Your Ticket