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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IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and Hitting It Out of the Park

Andrew Rea

YouTube star of "Binging with Babish" and "Babish Culinary Universe" and New York Times bestselling cookbook author

Sawyer Jacobs

Andrew Rea’s lifelong friend and business partner

Oct 26 2023
IN-PERSON EVENT

Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease Stress, Worry, and Anxiety (Event 2 of 2)

Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Clinical social worker and psychotherapist, speaker, trainer, and author

Oct 24 2023
IN-PERSON EVENT

Modeling Matters: What Parents Need to Know (and Do) to Decrease Stress, Worry, and Anxiety (Event 1 of 2)

Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Clinical social worker and psychotherapist, speaker, trainer, and author

Oct 23 2023
IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

Rich Paul

CEO and Founder of Klutch Sports Group

Kevin Warren

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Bears

Oct 13 2023
IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success (Event 2 of 2)

Michelle Icard

Speaker, educator, and author

Caitlin McLennan

Assistant Head of Lower School at North Shore Country Day in Winnetka, Illinois

Oct 11 2023
IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success (Event 1 of 2)

Michelle Icard

Speaker, educator, 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

Oct 10 2023
ZOOM EVENT

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

Myisha Cherry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside

Rev. Danté Stewart

Theologian, essayist, cultural critic, and author

Oct 5 2023
IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

The Book of (More) Delights: A Conversation with Ross Gay

Ross Gay, Ph.D.

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author

Adrian Matejka

Award-winning poet and Editor of Poetry magazine

Oct 3 2023
ZOOM EVENT + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love, Ph.D.

William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University

Ganae McAlpin-Toney

Director of Equity for Evanston Township High School D202

Sep 27 2023
IN-PERSON + BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—And What We Can Do About It

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Award-winning journalist and author

Denise Dubravec

Winnetka Campus Principal/Assistant Superintendent of New Trier High School D203

Sep 21 2023

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