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The Rev. Traci Blackmon is the Executive Minister of Justice & Witness Ministries of The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. As pastor, Rev. Blackmon leads Christ The King in an expanded understanding of church as a sacred launching pad of community engagement and change. This ethos has led to a tripling of both membership and worship attendance over the last seven years, expanding membership engagement opportunities, and the establishment of community outreach programs. Community programming includes a computer lab, tutoring, continuing education classes, summer programming, a robotics team, children's library, and girls' mentoring program. All housed in the church. Regionally, Rev. Blackmon's signature initiatives have included Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit, a mobile faith-based outreach program she designed to impact health outcomes in impoverished areas. Sacred Conversations on Solomon’s Porch, quarterly clergy in-services designed to equip local clergy to assess physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health concerns within congregational life. Sista SOS Summit, an intergenerational health symposium for women and girls. In addition to, Souls to the Polls STL, an ecumenical, multi-faith collaborative that was successful in providing over 2,800 additional rides to the polls during local and national elections. A featured voice with many regional, national, and international media outlets and a frequent contributor to print publications, Rev. Blackmon's communal leadership and work in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, Jr., in Ferguson, MO, has gained her both national and international recognition and audiences from the White House to the Carter Center to the Vatican. She was appointed to the Ferguson Commission by Governor Jay Nixon and to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships for the White House by President Barack H. Obama. Rev. Blackmon toured the nation with Rev. Dr. William Barber of Moral Mondays and Repairer of the Breech, Rev. Dr. James Forbes of The Drum Major Institute and Pastor Emeritus of The Riverside Church in New York, and Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus, proclaiming the need for a Moral Revival in this nation.
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Eileen McNamara, Larry Tye
John F. Kennedy Library
Todd McLeish, Science Writer
New England Aquarium
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James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute and a correspondent for the Daily Beast. His latest book is The End of Europe, Kirchick will be joined in discussion by Professor David Szakonyi, an Academy Scholar at Harvard and a Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Boston College - Gasson 100
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Museum of Fine Arts
Eve Mayberger
Museum of Fine Arts
Seán Hemingway and Scott Simon
John F. Kennedy Library
Phoebe Segal, Mary Bryce Comstock Curator of Greek and Roman Art
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Phoebe Segal, Mary Bryce Comstock Curator of Greek and Roman Art
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Amanda Hess, internet culture journalist and David Carr Fellow at the New York Times; Peter W. Singer, strategist at New America Foundation and author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War Bruce Schneier, security technologist, fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, fellow at Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, special advisor to IBM Security, and author of Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Museum of Science
Anna Deavere Smith
Boston College - Robsham Theater
Everyday Boston’s Story Ambassadors
Old South Meeting House
Darcy Kuronen
Museum of Fine Arts
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Jennifer Swope
Museum of Fine Arts
Brian Skerry, National Geographic Photographer and New England Aquarium Explorer in Residence
New England Aquarium
Dennis Carr
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Dr. Susan Moeller, Director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA), Professor of Media & International Affairs, University of Maryland
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Brooke Barbier, author of Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire and founder of Ye Olde Tavern Tours
Old South Meeting House
John Lithgow
John F. Kennedy Library
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