Community Forums
Coffee, Conversation & Community
Winter & Spring 2022 Forums
The Community Forum 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.
Transforming Health Care: What’s Coming?
January 23, 2022
Speaker: Akram Boutros, M.D., CEO and President, MetroHealth System Cuyahoga County ranks 75th out of Ohio’s 88 counties in health outcomes. MetroHealth has transformed its healthcare system to address the social determinants ... Learn More
Democracy, Non-Profit News, and the Future
January 30, 2022
Speaker: Bob Rosenbaum, Co-Chair, Heights Observer. Panel: Sharon Broussard, Project Manager, NEO Solutions Journalism Collaborative, and Jim O’Bryan, Founder, Observer Media Project. Factual, independent news media is the bulwark of ... Learn More
The Pandemic and the Inflation Outlook
February 6, 2022
Speaker: Robert Rich, Director, Center for Inflation Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Inflation has multiple impacts on our lives and communities, and it has surged over the past year ... Learn More
Government Mandated Pregnancy: Supreme Court or State’s Rights
February 20, 2022
Speaker: Jessie Hill, Professor, CWRU Law School and Lisa Reisz, JD., Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP What are the fundamental rights of women? Can they exist alongside religious beliefs and ... Learn More
The Greening of Liberal Religion
February 27, 2022
Speakers: Rev. Randy Partain, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland, and Rabbi Ellen Bernstein, Founder, Keepers of the Earth, the 1st National Jewish Environmental Organization We are called to restore and ... Learn More
Homelessness: How Does It Happen & Who’s Helping?
March 6, 2022
Speaker: Chris Knestrick, Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Coalition of Homeless (NEOCH) with Jean Kosmac, Street Outreach Worker, and a representative from Street Voices In Cuyahoga County, 6,000 people experience homelessness, according ... Learn More
Cleveland Public Art: Outside the Box
March 20, 2022
Speakers: Fred Bidwell, FRONT International Founder; Gregory Peckham, Executive Director, LAND Studio Colorful murals decorating Midtown industrial walls. The giant hand sculpture outside Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Underground Railroad ... Learn More
Fracking, Radioactive Brine and Icy Roads
March 27, 2022
Speakers: Cheryl Johncox, Fossil Fuels Organizer, Sierra Club, and Ted Auch, Ph.D., Director, FracTracker Alliance, Great Lakes Program. The brine that the fracking industry produces as waste is being used ... Learn More