This Archive contains information and available recordings for Forums since January 1, 2020.

All Forums since January 1, 2017 have been recorded and most are available on our YouTube page.

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Censorship

Speaker(s): Meryl Johnson, retired teacher and member, Ohio Board of Education, District 11; Felton Thomas, Executive Director & CEO, Cleveland Public Library; Owen Ganor, Student, Rocky River High School. Moderator: ... Learn More

Impact of Redlining & Hospital Closures

Speaker: Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD, Cardiologist, University Hospitals. In the 1930s, banks began drawing red lines around neighborhoods that were at higher risk for defaulting on mortgage and business loans. Recent ... Learn More

Food Insecurity Challenges & Solutions

Speakers: Darcy Freedman, PhD, Professor, CWRU School of MedicineJulie Johnson, CEO, The Hunger Network. Food insecurity has increased since the pandemic, with an estimated 226,000 people hungry in Cuyahoga County ... Learn More

Anti-Semitism: Beliefs and Facts

Speakers: Mark Weber, Retired KSU Dean, Library Services, and Activist Leader of Jewish, Secular and Labor Organizations. Hatred of Jews, Muslims and any other group is wrong. How can we ... Learn More

Immigration, Refugees, DACA and the Future

Speakers: Brian Hoffman, Esq., Executive Director, Ohio Center for Strategic Immigration Litigation; Patrick Kearns, Executive Director, The Refugee Response Normally, 3,000 immigrants come to Cleveland annually.  In 2019 there were ... Learn More

Constitutional Crisis, Insurrection or Democracy….in 2024

Speakers: Jonathan Entin, JD, CWRU Emeritus Law and Political Science Professor Cherie Strachan, PhD, Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics University of Akron How will the 2022 election ... Learn More

Labor Shortage: What’s the Future in NE Ohio and Beyond?

Speaker: Bethia Burke, President, Cleveland-based Fund for our Economic Future; Jacob Duritsky, Vice President, Strategy & Research, Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO) Studies show that labor shortages are still prevalent ... Learn More

Water: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘til It’s Gone

Speaker: Kristin Hall, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District; Judy Huichun Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CWRU Lake Erie is an asset of Ohio that is ... Learn More

Midterm Elections: Meltdown, Referendum or Party Switching?

Speaker: Tom Sutton PhD, Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University Inflation, gas prices, guns violence abortion and democracy itself. All are on the ballot. The party that occupies the ... Learn More

Financial Challenges of Healthcare

Speakers: Donna Graham, Vice President, Revenue Cycle, MetroHealth Medical Center; Kinsey Jolliff, Principal, Health Policy & Payment Innovation, The MetroHealth System. Staffing shortages, rising expenses, supply chain issues and limited ... Learn More