Akron Roundtable Podcast
The Akron Roundtable podcast brings you monthly installments of nationally recognizable figures and local leaders sharing their thought-provoking perspectives on topics that engage, educate, and inspire listeners. These episodes are recorded in full at the Akron Roundtable events and include the audience Q&A session with each guest. To learn more about Akron Roundtable or to attend a luncheon please visit https://www.akronroundtable.org/
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Bob Spitz, Author: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Bob Spitz was born, lived, went to high school and college on the same street, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Once he strayed off the block, however, his life veered into diverse and fascinating realms. A…
00:38:40 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Amy Freitag, New York Restoration Project: Building a Resilient City
Speaker: Amy Freitag comes to New York Restoration Project (NYRP) with a professional background that includes serving in the Bloomberg Administration as Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects in t…
00:41:15 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Jessica Jones Capparell, LWV :Expanding Access & Ending Discrimination: The Current Fight for Voting Rights
Presentation: Voting rights are being tested all around the country at the local, state and federal levels. Join a conversation to discuss the need for voting rights expansion and the fight against v…
00:50:22 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Hans von Spakovsky, The Heritage Foundation: Election Integrity – The Key to Preserving Our Democratic Republic
Presentation: Election integrity is a fundamental requirement of a functioning democratic republic. In the freest nation in the world, our system of government and our very liberty depend on free, fa…
00:46:47 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Jodi Wellman, Leadership Coach: How Many Monday Mornings Do You Have Left?
Presentation: The secret is out that we’re all living on borrowed time, so the question is whether we’re merely tolerating our work and going through the motions in our lives, or whether we’re doing …
00:54:32 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies: Mass Immigration vs. Modern Society
In earlier periods of our history, when we were settling the land and industrializing, mass immigration had real costs, but they were outweighed by the benefits. It’s the opposite today – mass immigr…
00:43:54 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
Nicole Mullet, Executive Director, ArtsNow: State of the Arts
Presentation: A first for Greater Akron's Future: Beginning in 2019—for the first time in its history—our communities engaged in a cultural planning process with goals to strengthen our region, advan…
00:52:58 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
Dave Yost, Attorney General, Ohio: Building the Highway of Hope
Program: Attorney General Dave Yost will discuss the importance of partnerships both in law enforcement and survivor advocacy groups, as well as his overall efforts to end human trafficking in Ohio. …
00:44:05 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum: Room to Grow (Point/Counterpoint)
The United States is unique in its capacity to integrate immigrants and refugees, both socially and economically, into communities and industries across the country. The U.S. has a reputation for hav…
00:50:03 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
Dominic Moore-Dunson & Francine Parr: Excellence in the Arts
Presentation: Dominic and Francine will give insight into Akron's arts & culture sector through their lens of using inclusion, connection, and excellence to build new organizations, projects, and per…
00:54:11 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
Regina Cooper Benjamin, National Digital Inclusion Alliance: Digital Inclusion 101
Presentation: Gina will share more about the digital divide, why digital inclusion is so important, and the work that she and her colleagues do towards digital equity. Speaker: Gina uses technology a…
00:52:22 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Dr. Gary Miller, The University of Akron: Post-pandemic Urban Higher Education- The new meaning of place
Presentation: President Miller will explore the vast changes in how urban research universities like The University of Akron are confronting past assumptions, reevaluating strategy and mission and th…
00:44:34 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Rachel Cargle, The Loveland Foundation: Literature as a Gateway to Understanding
Presentation: Rachel Cargle will share her journey founding a business ecosystem with roots in Akron, drawing on the tradition of other Black-owned bookstores as safe havens and literary and cultural…
00:55:39 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Paul Dolan, Cleveland Indians: A Conversation with Cleveland Indians Owner Paul Dolan
Speaker: The Dolan family's ownership of the Cleveland Indians enters its 22nd season in 2021, while Paul Dolan begins his ninth campaign as the primary control person of the franchise after being fo…
00:53:41 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Dr. Marnie Walston, Akron Children's Hospital: Childhood Obesity
Presentation: Obesity is a major public health issue around the world and a growing concern for our youth. Children with obesity experience poor health outcomes, report a lower quality of life, and f…
00:52:20 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
David Giffels, Author: Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
Presentation: The question of America’s identity has rarely been more urgent than now, and no American place has ever been more reliable in its illumination of that identity than Ohio. In the wake of…
00:49:13 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
David Greene: A Perspective from NPR's Morning Edition Host David Greene
David Greene is host of NPR's Morning Edition, with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne. For two years prior to taking on his current role in 2012, Greene was an NPR foreign correspondent based in Mosco…
00:47:53 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
Dr. Jeff Reutter, Aquatic Biologist & Limnologist: Lake Erie- Understanding Its Past and Predicting Its Future
Presentation: This presentation will briefly describe how and why Lake Erie is different from the other Great Lakes and why it may be the most important lake in the world. Dr. Reutter will discuss wh…
00:51:55 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Dr. Elizabeth Menefee, Child Guidance & Family Solutions/ Dr. Jeffrey Moore,Portage Path Behavioral Health: Mental Health & COVID-19
Presentation: The global pandemic has taken its toll on our community in countless ways, especially in terms of our mental health. Dr. Brian Harte, President, Cleveland Clinic Akron General will mode…
00:51:36 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
Pete Earley, Bestselling Author/ Mental Health Advocate: Hard Lessons Learned
This episode from Friday, October 31, 2019 is part of our "Most Memorable" collection. Recommended by Akron Roundtable Board President, Karen Talbott: "He spoke not only as an informed author but als…
00:39:18 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
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