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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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Award-winning author, motivational speaker, and criminal justice reform advocate
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
National correspondent for Time magazine
Chicago-based campaign operative and Brandeis University student
The Montessori Baby: Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding
Author, blogger, podcast host, and directress of Jacaranda Tree Montessori in Amsterdam.
Founder and head of school, Fruitful Orchard Montessori, Abuja, Nigeria. Co-author, "The Montessori Baby."
Head of School, Chiaravalle Montessori in Evanston, IL
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
New York Times bestselling author, host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, and host of the podcast American Innovations.
Board-certified preventive medicine physician, staff writer at The Atlantic, and lecturer at Yale School of Public Health.
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