Business Creation as Core Strategy for Community Building with: Alfred Babington-Johnson, Founder, Stairstep Foundation; Dr. Timothy Childs, Founder and President, TLC Precision Wafer Technology
Making our health our business – Mobilizing community around health interests. Guests: Paul Erickson, Medical Director, NorthPoint Health Wellness Center and Elaine Elliot, Administrative Director, University of Minnesota Center for Health Equity
Business and Economic Development-Global and Local perspectives with: U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, MN 5th District; Grover Jones, North Side Economic Opportunity Network Ambassador; Charles R. Stith, Director, African Presidential Archives, Boston University
Presentation at the 2011 Multicultural Marketing conference, Saint Paul Minnesota. Guests: Joe Mudd, president, Garth, McFarlane, & Mudd. Gerry Fernandez, President, Multicultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance. Donald Bryant, President, The Alden Group
Conflict (and cooperation) between newly arrived African immigrants and the African American community. Co-hosted by Reverend Jerry McAfee, Pastor of New Salem Missionary Baptist Church. Abdirizak Bihi, Director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center. Jackie Cherryhomes, former member of Minneapolis City Council and candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. Patwin Lawrence, Board Chair for the Council on Black Minnesotans.