FAN - Family Action Network

FAN - Family Action Network FAN is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a speaker series on topics related to human development

May 28th at 7pm CT on Zoom – A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection...
05/12/2026

May 28th at 7pm CT on Zoom – A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection with Nicholas Epley, Ph.D. and David Brooks –

University of Chicago psychologist and author of Mindwise, Nicholas Epley has spent his career studying the way we connect, and he has found that our social fears often keep us from reaching out. But in A Little More Social, Epley shows us how to seize the small moments with helpful insights. Bridging the gap between two people is easier than we think, and success is more likely, if we choose to be a little more social.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2017785424213/WN_rr0Fs6s9SPm2De5Xmk6qoQ

May 18th at 7pm CT – Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It with Claude Steele, Ph.D. and Campbell,...
05/05/2026

May 18th at 7pm CT – Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It with Claude Steele, Ph.D. and Campbell, Ed.D. –

Carefully intertwining state-of-the-art research with poignant anecdotes drawn from Steele’s own biracial background, Churn is essential reading for anyone dedicated to fostering a community rooted in love and commitment. Filled with a deep well of hope, Steele’s summa work brilliantly succeeds in teaching us how to work through the churn that continues to suffuse our lives.

This event will take place at Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Enter through door 6. No registration required.

May 14th at 7pm CT on Zoom – America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries with Eddie Glaude Jr., Ph.D. a...
05/04/2026

May 14th at 7pm CT on Zoom – America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries with Eddie Glaude Jr., Ph.D. and Imani Perry JD, Ph.D. –

Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, America: U.S.A. offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story. Devastatingly candid, profoundly moving, and deeply reflective, this book is a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6317775630300/WN_JMgrxNEkR4avA1iLAE5Lug

May 15th at 7pm CT – Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better with David Epstein and Megan Twohey – Original, galv...
04/29/2026

May 15th at 7pm CT – Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better with David Epstein and Megan Twohey –

Original, galvanizing, and deeply researched, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves, and the world—as well as a few that struggled from a lack of limits. Epstein reveals how boundaries create breakthroughs, and how setting the right constraints can help you become the most creative, productive, and satisfied version of yourself.

This event will take place at Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Enter through door 6. No registration required.

May 8th at 7pm CT – Backtalker: An American Memoir with Kimberle Crenshaw and Beth E. Richie, MSW, Ph.D. – One of the mo...
04/29/2026

May 8th at 7pm CT – Backtalker: An American Memoir with Kimberle Crenshaw and Beth E. Richie, MSW, Ph.D. –

One of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate story of how her life gave birth to these ideas. Backtalker is the powerful and intimate story of how a little girl from Canton, Ohio, came up with a new way to look at the world. Crenshaw’s memoir traces the way her lived experience made her see things others didn’t. She starts to talk back, and that backtalking has continued throughout her life.

This event will take place at Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Enter through door 6. No registration required.

May 7th at 7pm CT on Zoom – How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work with Jodi Kantor and Jennifer Breheny Wallace – P...
04/27/2026

May 7th at 7pm CT on Zoom – How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work with Jodi Kantor and Jennifer Breheny Wallace –

Powerful and provocative, How to Start is a statement of faith for young people as they make their way through uncertain times, offering wisdom, strategy, and a set of aspirations to launch their careers and last their whole lives. Instead of letting cynicism take over, Kantor identifies two principles to help young people discover their life’s work: craft and need. By pairing the two, they can navigate tough, sensitive choices: how to think about money. How much risk to take on. When to buck what others are saying.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9317772288821/WN_BkVOjALkSX281G7AiQjz5g

April 29th at 7pm CT – The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yo...
04/10/2026

April 29th at 7pm CT – The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yourself Again with Mary Claire Pastor Haver, MD and Heidi Keibler Stevens –

In The New Perimenopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver—the trailblazing voice behind the movement to revolutionize health care for women—sets things straight. She explains that the numerous and varied symptoms of perimenopause occur in direct response to normal endocrine changes; this is the hormonal "zone of chaos." It is a comprehensive, authoritative book of science-backed information and lived experience.

This event will take place at Regina Dominican High School – 701 Locust Rd., Wilmette, IL 60091. No registration required.

April 16th at 7pm CT on Zoom – An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment with Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. and ...
03/31/2026

April 16th at 7pm CT on Zoom – An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment with Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. and Mary C. Commerford, Ph.D. –

Spirituality Through A Highly Sensitive Lens gives readers everything they need to find their path toward peace, equanimity, and simply feeling okay—no matter what’s happening in the world around them and how overwhelming it may be.With Dr. Aron's signature empathy and profound caring, as well as her attention to science, this one-of-a-kind guide will help all of us embark on our own spiritual journey.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3117748830475/WN_grlOo8onR4q3xW82hPYPMw

April 14th at 7pm CT – There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America with Brian Goldstone, Ph.D. People with...
03/30/2026

April 14th at 7pm CT – There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America with Brian Goldstone, Ph.D.

People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one. By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.

This event will take place at Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Enter through door 6. No registration required.

April 8th at 12pm CT on Zoom – Born to Flourish: How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal a Simple Path to Thriving wit...
03/17/2026

April 8th at 12pm CT on Zoom – Born to Flourish: How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal a Simple Path to Thriving with Dr. Cortland Dahl and Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. –

In a world pulling our thoughts and emotions in so many directions, Born to Flourish offers a way to turn stress and anxiety into clarity and calm. This book brings us a powerful program rooted in decades of research from the Center for Healthy Minds and the non-profit Humin. Focusing on four transformative practices, they bring us key tools to help train our brains to overcome depression, despair, and loneliness.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5017733312312/WN__llSZQoLTaKFzuiSh2xaXg

March 19th at 7pm CT – Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture with Fab 5 Freddy and Theaster Ga...
03/10/2026

March 19th at 7pm CT – Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture with Fab 5 Freddy and Theaster Gates –

Everybody’s Fly is a fast-moving, all-access pass to Fab’s extraordinary life—one that begins in a book- and jazz-filled Brooklyn home and takes us deep into New York’s creative explosions from the 1970s into the 1990s. He didn’t just shape culture, he synthesized it—from highbrow to street, the Bronx to the East Village, punk to rap, Warhol to Wild Style. Vibrant, rhapsodic, and compulsively readable, it is at once an intimate memoir and panoramic cultural history.

This event will take place at Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Enter through door 6. No registration required.

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