Former inmate Juan (now exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit) and his corrections officer Bobby chat about their unexpected bond and how they’re helping young people build a career with Legacy Barber College.
Michael Warr is an award winning poet who creates across disciplines and languages. Gwendolyn Brooks said he “has a sharp eye and a sanity that refuses to make compromises.” Warr is a multi-media collaborator driving creativity removing barriers across languages and disciplines with his words and projects.
Scarlett Lewis speaks with compassion about Adam Lanza, the person who murdered her six-year-old son Jesse, along with 25 others at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Her formula, COURAGE + GRATITUDE + FORGIVENESS + COMPASSION (IN ACTION) = CHOOSING LOVE is what drives the Choose Love Movement she founded after the tragedy.
Amy Wu, Award-winning journalist and director of the documentary film From Farms to Incubators is joined by students from the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences to talk about the future of Agricultural Technology and how women and BIPOC are inspiring change.
Lucky Church and Deanna will talk about making intercultural relationships work. And could they be a model for civil public discourse across lines of differences? Lucky married his high school sweetheart, Vieng, now together 25 years. Deanna and Eugenio will celebrate 34 years in July. What are the challenges and joys?
From welfare and section 8 housing to Ph.D. student, author and speaker for Simply; from drugs and gangs to filmmaker and entrepreneur for Henry.Both share what happens when you forgo limits others see for you, have faith, and just DO.
How many levels of judgment do you experience before you even speak? Starting with a visit to the doctor’s office, Lucky and Deanna share their honest perspectives on daily living in the US, as a Black man and a White woman. Who is Lucky Church? Lucky is a Partner/PR Director at SMF Global and Director of Client Relations…
Pastors and interracial couple Geno and Shannon Olison set out to create an intentional, inclusive, multicultural, multiethnic, church planting church when they were sent to start the South Suburban Vineyard Church in Flossmoor, IL 11 years ago. Geno grew up on the south side of Chicago. His church growing up was overwhelmingly Black. He…
We’re talking all about the “whites”: white fragility, white supremacy, white privilege. And all the overlays and intersections of that related to oppression. It’s a tough topic so I brought in two doctors! Dr. Marcus Robinson is a Social Innovator. Cultural Creative. Transformative Leader, Mystic and educator. He’s led community transformation initiatives across North America…
MK Czerwiec, RN, MA and artist Sharon Rosenzweig talk about comics as a graphic form of communication to tackle difficult topics. In healthcare it can provide a way of coping with difficult topics, using story as a powerful means of making meaning. Join us Live on Wednesday, April 15 at 10am CT Or Watch…
