Speakers Archive 2022
If you missed a presentation, or would like to review previous presentations, choose from the year archives list below — or search by presentation topic term.
Love in the Shadow of White Privilege and Racism
with Judy Goldman, Author
Veterans & Communities – Be the Bridge!
with Blake Bourne, VBH Exec Director and Army Veteran
The State of Our City Center
with Michael J. Smith, President and CEO
of Charlotte Center City Partners
Providing Banking Services to Underserved Communities
with Kieth Cockrell, President, Bank of America
Divided We Stand
with Marjorie J. Spruill,
Distinguished Professor Emerita
at the University of South Carolina
Great Decisions Topic: The Politics of Climate Change
with Dr. Mark Kelso, Professor Queens University
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library: Today and Tomorrow
with Marcellus Turner, CEO & Librarian, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
How PBS Charlotte Educates, Inspires and Entertains our Region
with Amy Burkett, General Manager, WTVI PBS Charlotte
The James Webb Space Telescope
with Mr. Mike Menzel, James Webb Space Telescope
Mission Systems Engineer
Great Decisions Topic: Russia and the US
with Dr. Steve Sabol, Professor – UNC Charlotte
“YOUR County Government”
“Highlights of Mecklenburg County services and successes”
with Dena Diorio – Manager: Mecklenburg County
Precision Medicine in Bladder Cancer
with Dr Matt Milowsky, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Great Decisions Topic: Changing Demographics
with Dr. Michael Ewers, Assistant Professor
– University of North Carolina Charlotte
Wildacres Retreat / Spring 2022
Wildacres 2022 was a smashing success with 71 members attending.
The News You Never Heard
with Mr Glenn Burkins, Publisher & Founder QCity Metro
When the Left Bank is the Right Bank
with Dr. David Collins, Professor of English, Emeritus – Westminster College
Drug Policy and Latin America
with Dr. Greg Weeks, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
College of Liberal Arts & Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Historic Preservation Tools for a New South City
with Jack Thomson, Executive Director,
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission
Prominent NC Women in Business is now Living a Successful Life
with Ms. Joan Zimmerman, Founder – Southern Shows
Great Decisions Topic: Industrial Policy
with Mark Wilson, Ph.D, Associate Professor of History
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
God’s Time, Bach’s Tune
“Discovering the marvels of Cantata 106”
with Scott Allen Jarrett
The Charlotte Symphony
with David Fisk, President and CEO
The Charlotte Symphony
The Clerk and the Postmaster
The Clerk and the Postmaster: A Story of the Local Civil Rights Struggle for Equal Employment
with Dr Willie Griffin, Staff Historian,
at the Levine Museum of the New South
Making History in Our Own Time
Making History in Our Own Time: Charlotte Since 1990
with Dr Tom Hanchett, Historian
Great Decisions Topic: Myanmar and ASEAN
with Dr. Katherine “Kate” Kaup,
James B Duke Professor of Asian Studies and
Politics and International Affairs, Furman University
Wake Forest School of Medicine – Charlotte Update
with Dr Mary N Hall, SVP & Sr Associate Dean
of Education and Faculty at Atrium Health

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