Speakers

5/27/2022
Mr. Mike Menzel, The James Webb Space Telescope Mission Systems Engineer
James Webb Space Telescope

5/20/2022
Dr. Steve Sabol, Professor – UNC Charlotte
Great Decisions Topic: Russia and the US

5/13/2022
Dena Diorio, Manager – Mecklenburg County
“YOUR County Government” – Highlights of Mecklenburg County services and successes

5/6/2022 
Dr Matt Milowsky, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 
Precision Medicine in Bladder Cancer

4/29/2022
Dr. Michael Ewers, Assistant Professor – University of North Carolina Charlotte
Great Decisions Topic: Changing Demographics

4/22/2022
Dr Elizabeth Davis, President Furman University
Furman Advantage – Preparing students for lives of purpose and accelerated career and community impact

4/15/2022
Mr Glenn Burkins, Publisher & Founder QCity Metro
The News You Never Heard

4/8/2022
Brian Cyprian, Supervisory Special Agent – FBI
Cyber Threats and Trends
(the FBI does not allow us to post the presentation, audio or video recording)

4/1/2022 
Dr. David Collins, Professor of English, Emeritus – Westminster College 
When the Left Bank is the Right Bank – American Writers in Paris

3/25/2022
Dr. Greg Weeks, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Drug Policy and Latin America

3/18/2022
Jack Thomson, Executive Director, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission 
Historic Preservation tools for a New South City

3/11/2022 
Ms. Joan Zimmerman, Founder – Southern Shows
Prominent NC Women in Business is now Living a Successful Life – Giving and Receiving Help

3/4/2022
Mr. Sanjeev Bhasker, Assistant US Attorney
Our Modern Opioid Epidemic: Deep Dive into the Dark Web & Cryptocurrency (the speaker is unable to grant permission to post presentation)

2/25/2022
Mark Wilson, Ph.D, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Great Decisions Topic: Industrial Policy

2/18/2022
Scott Allen Jarrett
God’s Time, Bach’s Tune: discovering the marvels of Cantata 106

2/11/2022
David Fisk President and CEO
The Charlotte Symphony

2/4/2022
Dr Willie Griffin, Staff Historian, at the Levine Museum of the New South The Clerk and the Postmaster: A Story of the Local Civil Rights Struggle for Equal Employment

1/28/2022
Dr Tom Hanchett, Historian
Making History in Our Own Time: Charlotte Since 1990

1/21/2022
Dr. Katherine “Kate’ Kaup, James B Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs Furman University
Myanmar and ASEAN

1/14/2022
Dr Mary N Hall, SVP & Sr Associate Dean of Education and Faculty at Atrium Health
Wake Forest School of Medicine – Charlotte Update