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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Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs
Senior editor and correspondent at Newsweek
Author and Clinical Professor of Fiction at New York University
Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
Award-winning writer, poet, and essayist
Writer and educator
Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
Journalist and author
Author and Founder of the Bold Voice Collaborative
Craft: An American History
Craft historian and curator
Founder, Norman Teague Design Studio
The Price You Pay for College
"Your Money" Columnist for The New York Times
Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Concrete Rose: A Conversation with Angie Thomas
Award-winning author
Superintendent, Evanston Township High School D202, Evanston, IL
Actor and narrator
The Marriage of Words and Pictures
Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Award-winning bestselling author of numerous books for children and young adults
Award-winning children's book illustrator
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Writer, essayist, and New York Times bestselling author
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
National reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Deputy chief of U.S. news, The Wall Street Journal
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Principal at Black Futures Lab and author of "The Purpose of Power"
Founder and CEO, Chicago Beyond