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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Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love
Family medicine and public health physician and author
Emergency medicine doctor and author of multiple works of medical fiction
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Journalist
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ph.D.
Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University
What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change
Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and Operations, Informatics, and Decisions (OID), University of Pennsylvania
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Award-winning author and poet
Author and Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors
Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
Clinical psychologist and educational leader and consultant
Psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
Staff writer for The Atlantic and author
New York Times bestselling author, co-host of the Risky Business podcast, and international poker champion
Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #2 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #1 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
#1 New York Times bestselling author
99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
Journalist and author
Author and a senior editor at Puck News
Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School