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Featuring Michelle Bryant, Partner, McKinsey & Company; Dr. Pamela Gregory, Owner & CFO, National Center for Urban Solutions; Kelley Griesmer, President and CEO, The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio; Lillian Morales-Laster, Executive Director, Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy (ELLA), with moderator Margaret D. Finley, President, Central Ohio Belonging Consortium.
March 4, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Representative Juanita Brent, Ohio State House District 18; Sarai Brooks, Braid Artist, Author, and Owner of Haven 626 by RaiStyles; J. Averi Frost, Executive Director, Central Ohio African American Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Treva B. Lindsey, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, with moderator Lachandra B. Baker, Founder and Lead Consultant, Lachandra B. Baker Edutainment, LLC.
February 25, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Jatu Boikai, Founder & CEO, Central Ohio Postpartum Extended Respite Center; Dr. Kamilah Dixon, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; Dr. Shilpa Padia, Co-Medical Director of Oncology, Mount Carmel Health System; Dr. Mona Prasad, System Chief, Maternal Fetal Medicine, OhioHealth Physicians Group, with moderator Tracy Townsend, News Anchor and Medical Correspondent, WBNS 10TV.
February 18, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Introductory remarks by Tasha Booker, CEO, Action for Children. Featuring panelists Dr. Katherine Glenn-Applegate, Ph.D., Director of Child Care and Education Initiatives, Action for Children; Hannah Halbert, Executive Director, Policy Matters Ohio; Rhonda West, Owner and Administrator, Rhonda's Daycare Service; Kara Wente, Director, The Ohio Department of Children and Youth, with moderator Jennifer Bullock, Anchor, NBC4, WCMH-TV.
February 11, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Kirk Herath, Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor to Gov. DeWine, Chair of CyberOhio; Sophia Mohr, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer, COTA; Michael Wyatt, Principal - SLHE Cyber Leader, Deloitte, with moderator Padma Sastry, Adjunct Faculty, The Ohio State University College of Engineering.
February 4, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
RESCHEDULED: APRIL 29, 2026 | Featuring Sarah Goodyear, Co-Host, The War on Cars Podcast, and Co-Author, "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile"; Doug Gordon, Co-Host, The War on Cars Podcast, and Co-Author, "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile"; Devayani Puranik, Mobility Development Program Director, COTA, with moderator D'Laveance Bert-Sims, Board Member, Tra
January 28, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, Columbus City Councilmember; Emily Brown, Director of Immigration Clinic, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; Sophia Pierrelus, Entrepreneur and Former Secretary of the Mouvement Patriotique des Haïtiens Conscients (MPHC); Angela Plummer, Executive Director, Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS), with moderator Danae King, Underserved Communities Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch.
January 21, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Jason Jenkins, Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, City of Columbus; Duwain Pinder, Partner, McKinsey & Company; Marshall Shorts, Founder and Design Principal of Artfluential™ and Creative Director, Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC), with moderator Corey Favor, Senior Director of Community Engagement, Orange Barrel Media.
January 14, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Dr. Bill LaFayette, Owner, Regionomics; Dr. Aravind Chandrasekaran, Dean, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University; Kathy Bostjancic, Chief Economist, Nationwide, with moderator Ben Lanka, Business Editor, The Columbus Dispatch.
January 7, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Greg Davies, CEO, Downtown Columbus, Inc.; Robin Davis, Executive Director, Safer Downtown; Smith Weir, Deputy Chief, Patrol Subdivision, Columbus Division of Police, with moderator Dawn Tyler Lee, Founder & CEO, Forrest Street Consulting. Opening “State of Downtown” remarks by Amy Taylor, President, Downtown Columbus, Inc. Please note, a brief meeting is scheduled for the Dec 17th forum to vote on the previously announced changes to the Columbus Metropolitan Club Code of Regulations.
December 17, 2025
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum