Family Action Network events are free and open to the public.

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ZOOM EVENT

Wiser Guy: Life-Changing Revelations and Revisions from Tech’s Chief Evangelist

Guy Kawasaki

Chief evangelist of Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, and author

Heidi Stevens

Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health

Dec 4 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ph.D.

Neuroscientist, writer, and founder of Ness Labs

Susan Dominus

Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New York Times Magazine

Nov 18 2025
ZOOM EVENT

The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

Pria Anand, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine

Anupam B. Jena, MD, Ph.D.

Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and host of the "Freakonomics, MD" podcast

Nov 13 2025
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

Jeffrey Rosen

President and CEO of the National Constitution Center and Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School

David Blight, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

Nov 10 2025
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You (Event 2 of 2)

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Beth Arey

College and Career Services Coordinator at Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL

Nov 4 2025
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You (Event 1 of 2)

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D.

Superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois

Nov 3 2025
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 4 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 30 2025
IN-PERSON ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP

FAN Roundtable Workshop: Dealing with Feeling (Event 1 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025
EDUCATOR EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY

FOR EDUCATORS – Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 2 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025
IN-PERSON! BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want (Event 3 of 4)

Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University

Oct 29 2025