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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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University
Grown & Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington
Co-Founders, Grown and Flown
Fair Play: A System for Domestic Rebalance
Author, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live), and Founder, Philanthropy Advising Group.
The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates
National Book Award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow
Grand Rounds: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale University
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School
Distinguished Professor in Residence, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
Bestselling author of How Children Succeed, Helping Children Succeed, and The Years That Matter Most
How to Be an Antiracist
Founding Director, Antiracist Research and Policy Center, American University