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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Income, Race, Gender, and Educational Opportunity: A Data Portrait of Evanston and America
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and Professor of Sociology, Stanford University Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis
The Mind-Gut Connection: The Impact on Mood, Choices, and Health
Gastroenterologist, Neuroscientist, Professor in the Department of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience at UCLA, and co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center
Education for a Changing Society
Distinguished Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
Equality & Deeper Learning
Distinguished Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
Becoming Grandma: The Joy and Science of the New Grandparenting
News Correspondent, CBS' 60 Minutes
Irresistible: Designing for Behavioral Addiction
Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business
Revisiting the Undergroud Railroad
Author of The Underground Railroad, winner of Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Fiction, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller
Scaling the Empathy Wall: Listening with Curiosity and Interest
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley