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Speaker Date: January 10, 2025 Laura will speak about what it takes to put up a theatrical production at the community theatre and regional levels and the difference between Broadway,…
Speaker Date: October 25, 2024 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: On Being American RBG expanded our concept of who and what was included in the concept of being American. As a…
Speaker Date: May 17, 2024 American Democracy and the Rule of Law in Peril Michael Luttig, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals (ret.) for the Fourth Circuit, retired…
Speaker Date: April 19, 2024 Affordable Housing in Charlotte – Some History Community historian Dr. Tom Hanchett is completing a book for UNC Press on the history of one of…
Speaker Date: April 12, 2024 Healthcare Financing for Medicare and Medicaid Brad will discuss the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, it’s implementation and potential impacts and what President Biden and President Trump…
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with Matthew Asbell, Partner, Lippes Mathias
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with David Fisk, President & CEO, Charlotte Symphony
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with Professor Sylvie Toska, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Davidson College
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with Dr. Katie Passaretti, Vice President, Chief Epidemiologist for Atrium Health
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with Kenneth Taylor, N.C. Department of Environmental Quality
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with Deputy Chief David Robinson, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
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with Dr. Kevin Fogg, Associate Director, Carolina Asia Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
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with Kayla Adams, Director of Education, and Misty Sweat, VP of Education and Programming, Sullenberger Aviation Museum
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with Dr. Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Mycologist
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with Tate Nurkin, OTH Intelligence Group, Atlantic Council, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
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with Dmitry Vovchuk, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative
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with Chelsea Kaufman, Asst Professor, Wingate University
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with Dr. Jen Edwards, and Chief Curator, Mint Museum
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with Major General David Richwine, Retired Marine Corp
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with Kassidy Plyler, Cultural Programs Docent/Exhibit Coordinator, Catawba Cultural Center
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with Dave Collins, Professor of English, Emeritus
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with John Gaertner, Consultant, Energy and Environment
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with Mary Jo McGowan, UNC Charlotte Department of Political Science & Public Administration
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with Hugh Dussek, History Professor, CPCC
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with Colleen Hammelman, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
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with Rebecca Gilbert, Assoc State Director, AARP Charlotte Region
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with Frank Dominguez, General Manager, WDAV and Host of Concierto
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with Dr. Tom Hanchett, PhD in history, local Historian
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with Dr. Sarah Fatherly, and Chief Academic Officer, Queens University
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with Brad Panovich, WCNC Charlotte Weather Team
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with Dr. Cheryl Brown, Chair and Associate Professor for the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at UNC—Charlotte
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with Carlos Jorge, MD, and Co-Founder Companion Health
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with Kevin Patterson, Arts & Culture Advisory Board
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with Dr. Kevin Soden, Medical Director
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Anita Earls, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
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with Dan Crocker, Director of the Dean Rusk International Studies Program for Davidson College
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with Andrew Knoll, Fisher Research Professor of Natural History at Harvard University
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with Senior Games Fun, Fitness and Fellowship, Supervisor, Recreation Program at Mecklenburg County Government
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with Terri White, President and CEO of the Charlotte Museum of History
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with Tina Shull, Director of Public History, UNC Charlotte