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Featuring Michael Corey, Executive Director, The Human Service Chamber of Franklin County; Rhea Cunningham, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of Central Ohio; Columbus City Councilmember Melissa Green; Dr. Bill LaFayette, Owner, Regionomics, with moderator Jordan Laird, Politics and Government Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch, Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK.
July 8 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Daren Griffin, President & CEO, The Columbus Regional Airport Authority; Deborah Scherer, Senior Vice President, Global Trade & Investment, One Columbus; with moderator Jerod Smalley, Co-Anchor, WCMH NBC4, and Host, Columbus 2.0.
July 15 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Matthew Goldstein, CEO, Besa; Carrie Maun-Smith, Associate Vice President, Culture and Community Impact, Grange Insurance, and Foundation President, Grange Enterprise Gives; Kerri Mollard, Founder and CEO, Mollard Consulting; with moderator Janelle Coleman, President, American Electric Power Foundation.
July 22 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Brenda Councill, Ohio Women's Monument Artist and Sculptor; Stephanie Kunze, Original Member of the Ohio Women’s Monument Commission, Capitol Square Foundation Board Member; Charley Moses, Capitol Square Foundation Board Chair, and Former Ohio Statehouse Representative with moderator Charlene Brown, Host, WOSU Public Media's Columbus Neighborhoods TV Series.
August 5 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Robert Alt, President and CEO, The Buckeye Institute; Rita McNeil Danish, Interim CEO, The Matriots; Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Endowed Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University, with moderator Lee Strang, Inaugural Executive Director, Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, The Ohio State University.
August 12 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Suzan Bradford, Executive Director, Lincoln Theatre; Chad Whittington, President & CEO, CAPA; Remi Wörtmeyer, Artistic Director, BalletMet, with moderator Amy Juravich, Host and Executive Producer of All Sides with Amy Juravich, 89.7 NPR News, WOSU Public Media. Additional panelist to be announced.
September 2 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Palace Theatre
Featuring Charles Hillman, President & CEO, The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority with moderator Michael Wilkos, Vice President of Community Engagement, The United Way of Central Ohio.
October 14 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
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