Forums That Matter Archive
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.
To get in touch, email forums@uucleveland.org.
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