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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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Award-winning author and poet
Author and Founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online platform and book club celebrating the works of Black women authors
Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools, and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
Clinical psychologist and educational leader and consultant
Psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and "Ask Lisa" podcast co-host
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
Staff writer for The Atlantic and author
New York Times bestselling author, co-host of the Risky Business podcast, and international poker champion
Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #2 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health
Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You (Event #1 of 2)
Professor, Management & Organizations, Ross School of Business, and Director of the Emotion and Self Control Lab, University of Michigan
#1 New York Times bestselling author
99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life
Journalist and author
Author and a senior editor at Puck News
Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University
New York TImes bestselling author and former columnist for The Guardian
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
Professor of psychology and director of the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, University of Arizona
Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LICSW
Psychotherapist, author, and podcast host
John Lewis: A Life
Professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University
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