Past Speakers
April 22, 2008
Suzanne Bianchi, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Title: "Gender Roles and Use of Time: The Subtle Parenting Revolution in American Family Life"
October 25, 2007
Miriam Weinstein
Author, The Surprising Power of Family Meals
Title: "Nourishing Family Resilience: Our Mealtimes, Ourselves"
Executive Director, The Forum for Youth Investment
December 7, 2006
Karen Pittman
Executive Director, The Forum for Youth Investment
President, Impact Strategies
Washington, D.C.
Title: "Improving the Odds for Youth: A Call for Community Leadership"
Angela R. Wiley: Associate Professor, Applied Family Studies and Extension Specialist
April 17, 2006
Angela Wiley and Reed Larson
Angela R. Wiley: Associate Professor, Applied Family Studies and Extension Specialist
Reed W. Larson: Professor, Family Ecology and The Pampered Chef Ltd. Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency
Title: "Vegetables, Vocabulary, and Love: Mealtimes as Opportunities for Raising Resilient Children"
President, Search Institute
December 1, 2005
Peter L. Benson
President, Search Institute
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Title: "Growing Strong and Successful Youth: The Power of Families and Communities Working Together"
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
April 18, 2005
Ann S. Masten
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Title: "Ordinary Family Magic: Recipes for Resilience"
Former Curator of Books, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe
November 2, 2004
Barbara Haber
Former Curator of Books, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
Title: "Culinary History as a Window to Family Resiliency"
April 19, 2004
Barbara H. Fiese
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Syracuse University
Title: "Dinnertime Routines as Pathways to Family Resiliency"
Director, Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York
December 8, 2003
Evan Imber-Black
Director, Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Title: "The Significance of Holiday Traditions for Family Resiliency"
Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health
April 9, 2003
Froma Walsh
Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health
Professor, School of Social Service Administration and Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago
Title: "Strengthening Family Resiliency"
Professor, Department of Family Social Science
April 2, 2002
William Doherty
Professor, Department of Family Social Science
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Title: "Family Resiliency in a Hurried World"
Lieutenant Governor, State of Illinois
October 9, 2001
Corinne Wood
Lieutenant Governor, State of Illinois
Chair, Children and Family Leadership Subcabinet
Title: "Policies and Practices to Strengthen Working Families"
President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute
April 3, 2001
Ellen Galinsky
President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute
Author, Ask the Children
Title: "Navigating Work and Family"
October 19, 2000
Doris Kelley Christopher
Founder and Chairman, The Pampered Chef ®, Ltd.
Title: "Celebrating the Family Mealtime Tradition"
Professor, Human and Community Development and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
October 19, 2000
Elizabeth Pleck
Professor, Human and Community Development and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author, Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals
Title: "Representing the Family Feast: Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want"
