This week

Wednesday, January 25Finding Innovation and Opportunity in Unexpected Places

Featuring Mark Kvamme, co-founder and partner, Drive Capital with Kenny McDonald, COO, Columbus 2020.

From Silicon Valley to CMH, Kvamme will share his insight of the tech transformation and his new love of the Midwest and Columbus as THE land of opportu-nity.

Sponsored by Deloitte

Upcoming

Wednesday, February 1Leadership Legacy with Kathryn Sullivan

Kathy was the fi rst women to walk in space as part of a Space Shuttle mission. She will share her extraordi-nary career as NASA astronaut, scientist, CEO of COSI Columbus and director at OSU. She was appointed by President Obama and confi rmed by the Senate as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmo-sphere and NOAA administrator in 2014.

Wednesday, February 8Kirwan Study: Maximizing Resilience in Community: A Trauma-Informed, Family Centered Approach.

Featuring Charles Nobel, director, African-American initiatives for the Columbus Urban League, Maurice Stevens, OSU Professor and researcher for the study.

Sponsored by Puffi n Ltd. West,

Thursday, Feb. 9Welcome to Columbus Party for New Talent

COSI 6:00 – 9:00 pmWelcome new talent to Columbus with drinks and

hors d’oeuvres. Meet the area university’s new best and brightest professors and administrators along with new corporate hires. CMC members are a welcome too.

Sponsored by The Robert Weiler Company, Expe-rience Columbus, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus 2020

Wednesday, February 15The State of Downtown

Featuring Cleve Ricksecker, executive director, Capi-tal Crossroads and Discovery Districts SIDS and others TBD

Sponsored by The Edwards Company

“Yes, there’s Kathy Sullivan, the fi rst woman to walk in space,” whispered at guest at a recent CMC luncheon. The next CMC forum on Wednes-day, February 1 will feature Dr. Kathryn Sullivan as part of the Leadership Legacy series. She will be inter-viewed by Annalies Corbin, president & CEO of the PAST Foundation. Sullivan’s connections to Columbus include her leadership as the CEO of COSI for 10 years and then, in 2006, as the fi rst director of the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy at The Ohio State University.

You may say that Sullivan is a rock star; she earned a doctorate in geology from Dalhousi University in Canada and a bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences form UC Santa Cruz. Little did she know, when study-ing the Earth Sciences, that she’d look at the Earth from a distance.

Sullivan was part of the fi rst group of six women selected for a NASA astro-naut corps in 1978. During her 15-year tenure with the agency, she fl ew on 3 shuttle missions, including her walk in space and the mission to

deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA explains the importance of the telescope as “Hubble has re-shaped our perception of the cosmos with clear and deep views from above Earth’s atmosphere.”

In addition to space, Sullivan’s expertise was also below land in the great oceans of this planet. She joined the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1988 as an oceanographer and served in the Reserve until 2006. IN 1993, she was appointed NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Com-merce) Chief Scientist, where she oversaw a research and technology portfolio that included fi sheries biology, climate change, satellite instrumentation and marine biodiversity.

Following her important work in Columbus work at COSI and OSU, Sullivan moved back to public service with NOAA, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction and Deputy Administrator, and also per-formed the duties of NOAA’s Chief Scientist. She became

Acting Administrator in 2013 and, in 2014, confi rmed by the Senate as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator on March 6, 2014.

“NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the sur-face of the sun to the depths of the ocean fl oor as we work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.” At the next

CMC forum, Sullivan will share her experiences which align with the mission of the agency she has led for several years.

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aired on the Ohio Chan-nel via WOSU digital and Columbus Television at channel 3 on Insight and Time Warner and channel 99 on Warner, WOW and AT&T U-Verse. For schedule details, visit ctv.columbus.gov.

CMC forums are held at the Boat House at Confl u-ence Park, 679 West Spring Street, Columbus, OH 43215. Free parking. Check-in for forums is at 11:30 a.m. with lunch served at noon. The program con-cludes at 1:15 p.m. and guests are encouraged to continue the conversation in the lobby with coffee and cookies.

CMC members, the deadline for early-bird registra-tion, $22 is Friday at midnight, prior to the standard Wednesday luncheon forum. Pre-paid reservations are required. The price is $25 for CMC members; $35 for CMC members’ guests; and $45 for the general public.

Reservations can be made online at www.colum-busmetroclub.org or by calling (614) 464-3220 ext. 1. Anyone requesting additional information may contact Jane Scott, President and CEO; Andrew Campbell, Vice President of Programming; Debby Rosenthal, Vice President of Member Relations and Marketing, or Lanie Cuthbert, Event Manager.

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Monday, January 23, 2017

Kathryn Sullivan, astronaut, scientist,

NOAA Administrator to speak at Feb. 1 forum

Happy birthday Karen Kasler! #cmcforum John Begala: To help Ohio small towns, we

need to restructure taxes and work to consolidate small governments. #cbusforum

- Kelly Atkinson

Shout out to @newarkohio and @lickingcounty; apparently they’re doing things right

huge talent & skill across OH-regular hard working people. We need to help them regain spirit to do the work

necessary.J BegalaPublic health insurance cover a greater percent of rural

residents than urban. John Begala – Community Research Partners

Big City Problems in Ohio’s Small Towns - a fascinating & important topic at #cmcforum @cbusmetroclub

- Bruce McPheron

RE-TWEETS AND QUOTEABLES FROM THE JANUARY 11

CMC FORUM – @CMCFORUM

Participating in the forum were CMC CEO Jane Scott, from sponsor The Ohio State University, Bruce McPheron, speakers Alison Goebel, Karen Kasler, Tara Britton, CMC trustee Mindy Wright and speaker John Begala.

RECAP: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 FORUM

Big City Problems in Ohio’s Small Towns

The contrast of big cities to small towns in Ohio is striking in both the similarities and of the challenges and the in-equality of the resources.

Featuring John Begala, retired executive director, Center for Community Solutions Alison Goe-bel, executive director, Greater Ohio Policy Cen-ter, Tara Britton, direc-tor of public policy and advocacy, The Center for Community Solutions and moderated by Karen Kasler, bureau chief, Statehouse News Bureau.

From top to bottom: Jane Boyer, Rachel Lustig, Meg Teaford, Tracy Najera and Don Hollister had questions for the panelists.

George Arnold and Franklin Conaway conferred at the end of the forum.

Photo: TIME

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