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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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, Harvard University
"Phys Ed" columnist for The New York Times
Farm-to-Table: Growers, Chefs, and Home Cooks
Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner
Co-authors, The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook
Co-chef and co-owner, Prairie Grass Cafe
How to Make Mistakes on Purpose: Bring Chaos to Your Order
Illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator
Writer, director, performer, creative director, provocateur, and entrepreneur
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, creator of the 1619 Project, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, and founder of Howard’s Center for Journalism and Democracy
Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University
Professor of Creative Writing, New York University. Award-winning poet and 2016 MacArthur Fellow.
Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
President and CEO at New America
Author, podcast host, and anchor of MSNBC’s "American Voices with Alicia Menendez"
Unprotected: An Evening with Billy Porter
Award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, playwright, and author
Mixed-media documentarian, journalist, and educator
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist on politics and domestic and foreign affairs for The Washington Post
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, New Trier High School D203, Winnetka, IL
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional
Writer, essayist, and author
New Trier High School Class of '22
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for An Inspired Life
Professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University
Author, essayist, and professor emeritus of religion at Middlebury College
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Award-winning journalist and author
Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health