Upcoming Events
Family Action Network events are always free and open to the public.
No tickets, no admission charges, no RSVPs — no barriers! Seating is first-come, first-served (though we save a few for our volunteers and sponsors, of course). Events featuring nationally-renowned speakers often get crowded, so we recommend that you arrive early to get your preferred seat.
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Fair Play: A System for Domestic Rebalance
Eve Rodsky
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.
New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium
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
New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D.
Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University
Year of the Monkey: An Evening with Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Writer, performer, and visual artist
Evanston Township High School Auditorium
The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
Adam Waytz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
North Shore Country Day School Auditorium
Past Events
National Book Award-winning author of We Were Eight Years in Power, Between the World and Me, and The Water Dancer.
The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and professor, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine.