Past Events
Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.
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Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
Executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Distinguished Professor in Residence, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law
Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math
Math expert and CEO and co-founder of Zearn
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People (Event 2 of 2)
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute
Superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People (Event 1 of 2)
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute
Summer Hiatus 2024!
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Author and award-winning journalist
Pioneering journalist and author of two bestselling books
Thinking with Your Hands: How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago
Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters
Professor at the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab
Chancellor's Professor Emerita at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, and founder of the nonprofits Schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School, and Khan World School
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
Organizational psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford, co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization, co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and co-founder of 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