CoreChange Speaker Series
How do we unleash the assets in urban neighborhoods to create a better region? Join us for the CoreChange Speaker Series as we examine the systemic causes of poverty in the urban core and how to change them.

Registration for the corechange speaker series is now closed.

SESSION 1
January, 10, 2012
Location: Woodward Career Technical High School
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Mary Kay Leonard, President and CEO, Institute for a Competitive Inner City
As the president and CEO of ICIC, Mary Kay Leonard manages ICIC’s strategic direction and is focused on increasing the organization’s impact on inner city economic development across the U.S. She also directs ICIC’s efforts to engage new corporate and foundation partners, expand recognition and education programs for inner city businesses and leverage the underutilized assets of America’s urban communities to maintain the country’s competitiveness internationally.

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SESSION 2
February 7, 2012
Location: National Underground Freedom Center
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

William Julius Wilson, University Professor, Harvard University.
He is the author of numerous publications, including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems' C. Wright Mills Award.