Speakers

2022 - 2023

Sep 14	Marilyn Milio of CARITAS speaking on National Recovery Month
Oct 19	Liz White, Executive Director of UpVote Virginia
Nov 9	Jesse Lynch, State Budget Implications for the Richmond Area
Dec 14	Election Review by Jeff Shapiro
Jan 18	Innovations in Affordable Housing, Presented by Virginia Housing
Feb 8	Key Law Enforcement Challenges, Presented by the Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield Police Chiefs
Mar 8	John Conrad, a former Richmond Vice Mayor and City Council member; Dr. Thad Williamson, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond; and Rachael Deane, the Education Law Center's Director of Legal State Policy Support.
Apr 12	Michael Hallmark, Henrico County's New Green Space Development
May 10	Ben Campbell, Shockoe Bottom-Past, Present, and Future
Jun 14	June 14 - Dr. Monroe Harris, Chairman of Richmond's Black History Museum and Cultural Center

2021-2022

Sep 15	Lawrence Roberts, Director of the Sorensen Institute
Oct 13	Candidate Forum
Nov 10	David Poole, Director of Virginia Public Access Project & Chris Piper, Commiss. of Elections
Dec 8	Jeff Schapiro, Richmond Times Dispatch, Politics columnist
Jan 12	Ronald Crutcher, Immediate Past President of University of Richmond
Feb 9	Alex Nyerges, Suzanne Munson, Bill Martin - Re-imagine Richmond Forum
Mar 9	Perry J. Miller, President of Richmond International Airport & Wayne T. Hazzard, Chairman of the Capital Region Airport Commission
Apr 13	Homelessness and Poverty Forum: Karen Stanley of Caritas, Ben Campbell of Church Hill, and Levar Stoney, Mayor
May 11	James River Today Forum: Jamie Brunkow, Riverkeeper, Charlie Grant, Director of Citie of Henricus, and Brian Anderson of ChamberRVA
Jun 8	Michael Paul Williams, the Pulitzer Prize winner from the Times-Dispatch.
	An additional Special Program, date TBD.

2019 - 2021

Leonard Sledge		June 2021*V
Dr. Harold Fitrer, Ed.D.	President and CEO, Communities in Schools of Richmond	May 2021* V
Thelma Bland Watson, Ph.D.	Executive Director of Senior Connections	April 2021*V
Sarah Tunner	Director of development for the Daily Planet	Jan 2021* V
Dr. Deirdre Condit	Prof., Virginia Commonwealth University	Dec 2020* V
Anne Holton	Former Virginia Secretary of Education	Nov 2020* V
Candidates Forum	Abigail Spanberger and Nick Freitas	Oct 2020* V
Richard Schragger	Professor, University of Virginia School of Law	Sep 2020* V
Howard Owen	Novelist	July 2020* V
Megan Rhyne	ED, Virginia Coalition for Open Government	June 2020*
Brian Cannon	ED, OneVirginia2021	May 2020*
Louis Lassiter	City Auditor, Richmond	March 2020
Christy Coleman	ED, American Civil War Museum	February 2020
Andy Edmunds	Director,Virginia Film Office	January 2020
Stephen Farnsworth	Prof, University of Mary Washington	December 2019
Jason Kamras	Superintendent, Richmond Public Schools	November 2019
Levar Stoney	Mayor, City of Richmond	October 2019
John Hager	former Lt Governor of VA	September 2019

Notes: * = Zoom meeting. A letter 'V' next to the date of a past presentation indicates a video of the presentation is available for viewing. Click on the 'V' to see that video.