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Invited speakers & attendance

A list of invited speakers at previous and upcoming Forums. A note on how the attendance figures are compiled is at the bottom of this page.

 

DateInPersonWebexF'bookY'TubeWebsiteTOTALSpeaker; donor of hospitality
2023
3-13
3-7Black female journalists
2-28
2-21
2-14Anthony Shelborne, CFO, Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority (CRVA)
2-7Alumni of closed Black schools: J.H Gunn, Torrence-Lytle, Plato Price, Second Ward High, possibly others.
1-3113094733Mic Alexander, Image Wealth Management coaching
1-24150137338Alesha Brown: Civil rights attorney, founder and executive director of nonprofit For the Struggle
1-171602881062Kristie Puckett-Williams, Director for Engagement and Mobilization for the ACLU North Carolina. Hospitality donated by Saiyah Saddler of Honeysuckle Baking
1-10130124433Open Forum on the year ahead
1-3No Forum
DateInPersonWebexF'bookY'TubeWebsiteTOTALSpeaker
2022
12/27No Forum
12/20No Forum
12/13220115947Daisha Wall, Environmental Justice Manager of Charlotte-based CleanAIRE NC. Hospitality donated by Crispin Robinson.
12/6150156541Traletta Banks, CEO, Another Level Staffing; Magloire Lubika, Surefire Neighborhood Market; Toby Rajkumar, Woodbrook Kitchen; Walter Rasby, Genesis Project 1
11/29140101328Frances Hall, Beatties Ford Road Vocational Training Center
11/22Thanksgiving Week – No Meeting
11/1520084234 Cheryse Terry, owner of Archive CLT Coffee & Books
11/8Election Day. No Forum.
11/1160104131N.C. House Districts 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 and 112
10/25360612761N.C. House Districts 88, 92, 98, 99, 101 and 102; Stevenson Birthday Party, 9:45-10:45
10/182801014961Candidates in contested NC Senate elections in Mecklenburg
10/11270104344County Commissioner candidates DIstricts 4, 5, 6; Vote Yes for City Bonds Committee.
10/43401211663Candidates in contested NC Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Superior Court elections; Meck Soil & Water Conservation Supervisor candidates Barbara Bleiweis, Nancy Carter, Alonzo Hill, Tigress McDaniel, and Hunter Wilson
9/272601611760County Commissioner candidates at-large, Districts 1 and 3
9/2031018201079District 2, 4 and 6 CMS school board candidates
9/1338063128121District 1, 3 and 5 CMS school board candidates
9/6320118455U.S. Rep. Alma Adams
8/30260621044Kathryn Firmin-Sellers, Chief Impact Officer, United Way of Central Carolinas
8/2319066839Ginny Harper, DSS Community Program Coordinator; Carlo Battle, Mecklenburg Department of Community Resources’ Community Resource Center; and Tara Vannoy, Blue Ridge Community Action; on Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP), Crisis Intervention Program (CIP), HOMES program’s property tax assistance for lower income homeowners, and weatherization grants
8/16200139850Dr. Victor Mack on UNCC STEM Pre-College Program and other youth enrichment programs
8/9200427776Raki McGregor, Novant Health SVP digital equity and community growth, on loan to CMS as part of Charlotte Executive Leadership Council initiative
8/220017132373Valaida Fullwood on Black philanthropy
7/26No Forum; City General Election
7/192203541374Candidates in contested City Council district races in July 26 general election
7/1220038131586At-large City Council candidates in July 26 general election
7/5No Forum
6/281202310651Jared Keaton, CEO of Alliance Center for Education
6/21140226446Susan Gann-Carroll, CMS Director of Career & Technical Education
6/14200234956Mecklenburg County Assessor Ken Joyner
6/71701441247Ceretha Sherrill on Juneteenth; Open Forum
5/3118034151784Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones, Mayor Vi Lyles
5/24190104235Shamaiye Haynes, Charlotte Community Think Tank; Men Tchaas Ari, Communities In Schools of Charlotte
5/17Primary Day: No meeting.
5/10052134574May 17 Primary wrap-up
5/305933368May 17 Democratic primaries for District Court: Seat 1: Chris Bazzle, Shante Burke-Hayer; Seat 18: Keith S Smith, Cecilia Oseguera; Seat 19: Belal Elrahal, Samantha Mobley
4/2607596898May 17 Republican Primary: City Council at-large: Kyle Luebke, David Merrill, Charlie Mulligan, Carrie Olinski, David Michael Rice
4/1901013927149May 17 Democratic Primary: City Council at-large: Dimple Ajmera, Patrick Cannon, Larken Egleston, LaWana Mayfield, James Mitchell, Braxton Winston
4/120857110103May 17 Democratic Primary: County Comm. At Large: Leigh Altman, Trina V. Boyd, Pat Cotham, Jennifer DeLa Jara, Arthur Griffin, Yvette Thompson-Ingram
4/5071101798May 17 Primaries: Congress District 14
3/29084229115May 17 Primaries: Sheriff
3/2207381192May 17 Primaries: Congress District 12
3/150960096May 17 Primaries: Charlotte Mayor
3/8086108104May 17 Democratic Primary: District Attorney
3/10667477LaToya Faustin, Executive Director, and Marion Pulse, Corporate Relationships Manager, from She Built This City
2/2205521067Charlotte Business Inclusion and the Amp Up Charlotte program: Holly Eskridge (Economic Development Department), Alexis Gordon (Economic Development Department) and Steven Coker (Charlotte Business Inclusion Program)
2/1506542190Black History Month: Black experiences in the Charlotte media. Invited: Steve Crump, Ken Koontz, Curt Peters, Dedrick Russell, Bethany Lane, possibly others.
2/8067111088Charis Blackmon, West Side Charlotte Land Trust executive director
2/10721911102Alyson Craig, Alysia Osborne from Planning Department with update on 2040 Plan
1/250659478Bea Thompson on Black Women in Public Health
1/180527968National Institute of Minority Economic Development: Kevin Price, President & CEO; Roberta McCullough, SVP of Operations, Institute Capital (ICAP); John F. Ham, Director, Center for Professional Services
1/1104371363Rachelle Latimer, CEO of Elite 360 Transportation, an Amazon Delivery Service Partner, and the former executive who opened an N.C. Dept. of Transportation satellite office for M/W/SBE services
1/4045121269New name, same mission: Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum. And CMS board member Jennifer De La Jara fields first-day-back and other questions.
DateInPersonWebexF'bookWebsiteTOTALSpeaker
2021
12/28No Forum
12/21No Forum; next Forum 1-4
12/1403714859Ginny Harper, Community Program Coordinator, Meck. Co. Dept. of Social Services on energy programs: Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) and Crisis Intervention Program (CIP); Jennifer Rupp, Employment Services Coordinator, Meck. Co. Dept. of Social Services on Employment Services Program: Reaching Independence through Sustainable Employment (RISE2Work); Liz Ojeda, Food Navigator, Loave and Fishes on NO Kid Hungry – Mecklenburg County; and Tara Vannoy, Housing Specialist, Blue Ridge Community Action, Inc. on Weatherization grant and application sign-up event in Mecklenburg County.
12/7039111868Urban League on east satellite office and new initiative: CEO Teddy McDaniel; COO Dr. Fahnie Shaw; Director of Education and Emerging Programs Makeda Holly-Johnson
11/300506359Dr. Raynard Washington, Mecklenburg County Health Dept.
11/23No Forum; Thanksgiving
11/1604401155Sherri Chisholm, executive director of Leading on Opportunity
11/90497662Christopher Dennis, owner of E-Fix Development Corp., active on Beatties Ford Rd.
11/20347748Alexandra Arrington on Digital Navigators Service
10/2604912364African-American Faith Alliance. Drs. Dennis Williams & Ricky Woods
10/190404751UNCC sociologists Dr. Kendra Jason and Dr. Julian Montoro-Rodriguez on Caregiver TLC Program, which offers 6 weeks of free online support to caregivers, both family and paid workers, who are “providing care to people with memory loss, dementia or chronic health illness.”
10/120484759Center City Vision Plan and the West End. Cheryl Myers, Klint Mullis, Charles Trowell, Lorna Allen, J’Tanya Adams, Henry Stepp, Eric Orozco.
10/503710552Dr. Shanté Williams, Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Chamber of Commerce
9/28087518110CMS Supt. Earnest Winston, Assistant Supt. Frank Barnes
9/2105431370Dr. Munro Richardson and partners, Read Charlotte, on
empowering families to support literacy at home
9/140393446JCSU Archivist Brandon Lunsford with an update on the “Virtual Sense of Place” digital reconstruction of Charlotte black neighborhoods destroyed during urban renewal
9/70364545NC Sen. Natasha Marcus, leader of Mecklenburg legislative delegation
8/3103513553Hannah Terrell, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library | Allegra Westbrooks Regional
8/2403715860Dennis Miller and Caroline Moore, with Wexford Science & Technology, a Baltimore real estate firm already tied to Wake Forest Baptist Health projects in Winston-Salem, seeking feedback on the 20-acre Innovation District adjoining the Wake/Atrium medical school to be built on old Brooklyn urban renewal land.
8/17051101677Elyse Dashew, chairperson, CMS Board of Education
8/100604468Arthur Griffin and George Dunlap on the Critical Race Theory
8/30262129Open Forum
7/270256031Janice Shirley, Black Treatment Advocacy Network and the Black AIDS Network
7/200305237Kevin Tully, Chief Public Defender
7/130643471Dena Diorio, Mecklenburg County Manager
7/6No Forum
6/290363241Dr. Rebecca Tippett, director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center
6/220460450Vivian Stuart on Rosa Parks Farmers Market; Reggie Singleton on The Males Place
6/150442450Ralphine Caldwell, executive director, Charlotte office of LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), a national nonprofit that provides financing and support for community development
6/80542460District Attorney Spencer Merriweather
6/1No Forum meeting
5/250487661Robert Dawkins, political director, Action NC; a COVID-19 vaccine update; Census results and NC’s 14th seat in the US House
5/180668882Arthur Griffin Jr., former CMS Board of Education Chair: "Just asking for accountable education policy and practice"
5/110448456Najah Roberts, chief visionary officer for Crypto Blockchain Plug, an Inglewood, Calif., cryptocurrency education provider and over-the-counter sales company.
5/40516158Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden
4/2706125288U.S. Rep. Alma Adams; Keith Rivers of NC NAACP with update on NC NAACP and on the death of Andrew Brown in Elizabeth City
4/200558467CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings; Jonathan Chow, ex-CMPD officer assisting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with crime prevention strategies
4/130575264Marcus Bass, executive director Advance Carolina, Raleigh (former NC Black Alliance); and Stephanie Sneed, chair of the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg
4/6No meeting
3/3005005Virtual Forum Dry Run Assessment – facilitators only; no meeting; no livestream
3/230634269Virtual Forum Dry Run 4 – CMS Supt. Earnest Winston and Board Chair Elyse Dashew
3/160405045Virtual Forum Dry Run 3 – City Council District 2's Malcolm Graham; Cherie Smith, City of Charlotte Corridors of Opportunity Project Manager
3/90403043Virtual Forum Dry Run 2 – Mayor Vi Lyles, County Chair George Dunlap, COVID-19 & tent city updates
3/20150015Virtual Forum Dry Run 1 – Winston Robinson

 

DateAttendingSpeaker
2020
3/1041Charlotte Black Film Festival.
3/3Primary Election; no Forum
2/2540Emiene Wright and Glenn Burkins from QCity Metro about Westside Connect, a media outlet focused on Charlotte’s historic west side; Republicans in U.S. Senate primary were invited and will be heard if they attend, but have not responded: Larry Holmquist, Greensboro; Sharon Hudson, Huntersville;  Thom Tillis, Raleigh;  Paul Wright, Mt. Olive.
2/1841Candidates in 9th District Congress Democratic Primary: Harry Southerland, Raeford; Clayton W. Brooks III, Laurinburg; Cynthia Wallace, Charlotte; and Marcus W. Williams, Lumberton.
2/1149Democratic US Senate candidates. Confirmed: Trevor Fuller, Cal Cunningham; no from Atul Goel; no response from Erica Smith and Steve Swenson
2/421County Commissioners District 3 Democratic Party candidates George Dunlap and Cade Lee; and District Court Seat 2 Democratic Party primary candidates Aretha Blake and Lynna Moen.
1/2853Commissioners at-large candidate Rev. Brenda Stevenson, and two legislators in Raleigh during the Jan. 14 Forum: N.C. Senate District 38’s Mujtaba A. Mohammed; and N.C. House District 102’s Becky Carney.
1/2152County commissioner at-large primary candidates
1/1436Legislative candidates in March primary; qualities desirable in new police chief
1/755Nonprofit consultant Susan Woods on starting a nonprofit and applying for grants.
2019
12/31No Forum
12/24No Forum
12/17No Forum
12/1052Annual Christmas Party. Bring an unwrapped gift for games. Full breakfast available; $5 donation requested of those who eat. No livestream today.
12/353Taiwo Jaiyeoba, Assistant City Manager and director of Charlotte’s Planning, Design and Development Department.
11/26No Forum: Thanksgiving Week
11/1949George Grandy, Census 2020 with ActionNC Political Director Robert Dawkins; Winston Robinson on homeownership.
11-1233Open Forum.
11-5No Forum: General Election.
10-2968Mrs. Stevenson's Birthday Party; Census 2020's Wilhelmenia Rembert
10-2246City of Charlotte Mayoral candidates
10-1538City Council At-large candidates
10-852City Council District 2, 4 and 6 candidates
10-146Grant Walker, Regional Vice President, Oak Street Health, a national network of for-profit primary care practices focused on wellness care for adults on Medicare, entering Charlotte market on Freedom Drive and Harrisburg Road.
9/2452CMS Board of Education
9/1744CMS Board of Education
9/10Primary Election; No Forum
9/354City Council Democratic Primary: At-large (4 seats)
8/2742City Council Democratic Primary: District 3
8/2058City Council Democratic primary, District 4: Richmond V. Baker; Gabriel (Gabe) Cartagena; Charlene Henderson El; Renee Perkins Johnson; Charles Robinson; Sean Thompson.
8/1359City Council primaries, District 5 (Democratic) and District 7 (Republican)
8/6108Charlotte mayoral candidates
7/3092Candidates for Charlotte City Council DIstrict 1 and District 2.
7/2375CMS developments
7/1648Zhivi Williams and Dr. Yolanda Holmes on the work of the Women’s Advisory Board, created in 2009 as an advisory group to Mecklenburg County Commissioners.
7/947Open Forum.
7/254Crystal Rountree with Teach for America
6/2564Marvin Kelly with Goodwill Industries
6/1855DeAlva Wilson of Wilson Agency and Tim SIttema of Crosland Southeast, with assists from City Council members James Mitchell and Matt Newton, on Eastland site redevelopment
6/1154Open Forum on Historic Excelsior Club on Beatties Ford Road.
6/443Michael Norman, founder, Global Vocational Training Center
5/2839John Barnett, True Healing Under God Civil Rights Initiative
5/2168County Manager Dena Diorio.
5/1441Grace McLain from Moms Demand Action, and former N.C. Sen. Malcolm Graham from Cynthia Graham Hurd Foundation, on gun laws in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting and growing gun violence in Charlotte.
5/743 Derek Webber, CEO of Webber Marketing & Consulting, who moved his Queen City Battle of the Bands to Houston.
4/3027Open Forum
4/23NO FORUM.
4/16102Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, City Manager Marcus Jones and CMPD Chief Kerr Putney on police shooting video and events since its release Monday.
4/938Cory Pharr and Janet Harmon of Smart Start on the new Meck Basics program aimed at brain growth of children aged 0-3.
4/237Monika Rhue on the upcoming JCSU LIbrary art and history exhibit aimed at reimagining the future of the Beatties Ford Road corridor.
3/2640Women Helping Others in Charlotte: Sonja Chisolm, Gracious Hands Transitional Housing for Women and Families; Avice Pretty, Vision Beyond the Eyes homeless housing; Dr. Trasha Black, Genesis Project behavioral health agency.
3/1940Debbie Gibbs, retired Lifeshare PR manager and former newspaper & television reporter/first African American female news reporter at WBTV; and Tonya Rivens, TV, radio and Sheriff's Office PR
3/1236Women who make a difference in the political arena in Charlotte: Martha Alexander, Mary Klenz, Sara Spencer, Jan Valder
3/548Keysha Walker Taylor, Chair of the African American Community Foundation, and Qiana Austin, vice president and scholarships program officer for the Foundation For the Carolinas.
2/2642Chettie Martin, Dr. Diane Bowles and Everett Blackmon, all from JCSU, on Charlotte’s west side
2/1968County Commissioners Chairman George Dunlap & Sheriff Garry McFadden
2/1245Dedrick Russell, Ken Lemon and Brittney Johnson from the Charlotte Area Association of Black Journalists (CAABJ).
2/548Jesse Cureton, executive vice president and chief consumer officer, Novant Health
1/2932Robin Tolliver-Ayotunde, president and managing director of Tolliver Grey Partners insurance agency
1/2235C.N. Vakala on the millennial Forum spinoff TheAgenda, and Vakala's work as a cultural strategist via
AVATAR Academy Inc.
1/15NO Forum: Tuesday is the date of birth of Martin Luther King Jr. A wreath-laying ceremony is at Marshall Park at noon. Other MLK celebrations are Saturday, Jan. 19 through the federal holiday on Monday, Jan. 21.
1/832City Council member James Mitchell on decision by CIAA to take tournament to Baltimore. There will be no livestream of this Forum.
1/1No Forum on New Year's. The first meeting of 2019 is on Tuesday, Jan. 8.

 

DateAttendingSpeaker
2018
12/25No Forum
12/1862Christmas Party
12/11MEETING CANCELLED due to winter storm.
12/446Munro Richardson, Read Charlotte
11/2734Open Forum and planning session for 2019 speakers
11/20No Forum; Thanksgiving
11/1340Parental Involvement: Sheila Pelter on single male parents; and Betty Gray, consultant on NC NABSE Affiliates Organization
11/6Election Day; No Forum.
10/3033Soil & Water Conservation Board candidates.
10/23No count County commissioner candidates with an opponent; (No live stream today).
10/16No countN.C. legislative candidates with an opponent; (No live stream today).
10/946Judicial candidates with an opponent.
10/242Panel discussion on District Attorney's office initiative: Spencer Merriweather, district attorney; Sgt. Craig Varnum, domestic violence unit, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; Laura Lawrence, chief legal counsel, Safe Alliance; Rashida Gittens, business operations analyst, Duke Energy.
9/2548Jean Leier and Warren Cooksey on mechanics of I-77 Express Lanes opening by years's end: how to use them, the initial toll rates and how tolls will be collected.
9/1868Mayor Vi Lyles, Fire Chief Reginald Johnson and Community Relation Director Willie Ratchford about the Florence recovery effort that begins Tuesday.
9/1143Juanita Miller on Changed Choices.
9/4No Forum
8/2844Adam Sotak, public engagement director for NC Child; and Stacey Carless, executive director NC Counts.
8/2151Clarence D. Armbrister, president of Johnson C. Smith University
8/1458CMPD Chief Kerr Putney, Community Relations Director Willie Ratchford with updates on Jump Start Micro Grant program.
8/752Teddy McDaniel, President and CEO, the Urban League of Central Carolinas
7/3144Tonnia Thomas, executive director of the nonprofit, Training to Work an Industry Niche (TWIN), operating training programs under an EPA grant to prepare workers for hazardous waste cleanup and similar environmental work.
7/2452Patrick Cannon, David Sharp, CEO of Urban Advisors
7/1758Arthur Griffin (Black Political Caucus) and Robert Dawkins (Action North Carolina) on the importance of Civic Engagement.
7/1045Know Your Rights interactive video presentation by Mecklenburg  Council of Elders and CMPD Transparency Workshop.
7/3No Forum
6/2643Kareem Puranda on mental health in law enforcement.
6/1933Lisa Crawford from N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles about Real ID, to be put into use Oct. 1, 2020
6/1262City Budget: City Council member Greg Phipps, Budget Director & City Manager Marcus Jones
6/529Open Forum
5/2938Blue Star Mothers of Charlotte/ Fostoria Pierson
5/2236Charleston Carter, first African American Trial Court Administrator
5/1558Panel discussion and Q&A following screening of “Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope,” Panelists:Rwenshaun Miller, mental health advocate with Eustress; Ericka Ellis-Stewart, education and public policy program coordinator with Mental Health America of Central Carolinas; Victor Armstrong, vice president behavioral health with Atrium Health; and N.C. Rep. Carla Cunningham.
5/8NO FORUM: May 8 is Primary Election Day
5/165U.S. House 12th District incumbent Alma Adams with an update. Candidates in the May 8 primaries for the U.S. 12th District House seat have been invited.
4/2448Henry Rock on National ReEntry Week
4/1751Open Forum
4/10
71CMS Supt. Clayton Wilcox
4/365City Council's James Mitchell
3/2760Women who serve: Tamala Bullard, associate director of human resources, Davidson College; LaBecky Roe, retired police officer; Tenea McDonald and Simone Williams, lawyers at McDonald & Williams law firm; and N.C. House Rep. Becky Carney, currently serving on a speaker’s committee about teachers carrying guns in schools; Rep. Carla Cunningham.
3/2052Continuing the Forum’s marking of Women’s History Month: Rita Leach, Mecha Café; Tenea McDonald, McDonald & Williams Law Firm; Susan Woods, Susan Woods Nonprofit ConsultingServices
3/1365Six women who serve on the bench. Invited speakers for March 13 are Judges Kim Best, Aretha V. Blake, Alicia Brooks, Ty Hands, Tracy Hewett, Rickye McKoy-Mitchell.
3/643Women who serve the elders: Lucy Bush Carter, executive director of meals-on-wheels organization Friendship Trays; Deborah Weeks, executive director of C.W. Williams Community Health Center; and Renee Rizzuti, CEO and executive director, PACE of the Southern Piedmont.
2/2758Three people explore why being represented inside governments helps the African-American community. The panel: Christine Edwards, Community Relations Coordinator, Mecklenburg County; Tiffany Waddell, Administrative Management Division Manager, City of Charlotte (Manager’s leadership team); Kelly Little, Program Supervisor, Child Support Enforcement, Mecklenburg County.
2/2057Tuesday: Three leaders of area programs serving youth: Kwain Bryant, youth services manager for Career Leadership Academy for Youth (CLAY) program, Goodwill; Azizi Coleman, program director, Piedmont Health Services /Sickle Cell Foundation; Shantiqua Neely, executive director, A Child's Place for kids experiencing homelessness.
2/1344Two Charlotte native Young Professional History Makers: Dr. Shanté Williams, inventor of technology solutions in areas ranging from cardiac monitoring to electric vehicles, and founder of investment firm RW Capital Partners, helping other entrepreneurs find working capital; and Lambert Guinn, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, prosecuting primarily drug and firearm related cases.
2/6108Opening Black History month: A Panel of Black Women “Firsts,” Scheduled to participate:
– Beverly Earle, first black female elected to represent a Mecklenburg district in the NC. House.
– Vi Lyles, first black female Charlotte mayor.
– Dr. Wilhelmenia Rembert, first black female elected to an at-large seat on the Mecklenburg County Commission; first black female to serve as Mecklenburg Commission vice-chair; first black female CMS school board chair.
– Ella Scarborough, first black female City Council member; first black female Mecklenburg County Commission chair.
– Sarah Stevenson, first black female CMS school board member.
1/3054Toni Tupponce and Candice Rorie on regional transportation issues
1/2345Tour guide Terri Joelle on the history of Queen Charlotte
1/1647City Council District 3 member LaWana Mayfield on Diverse Housing Options
1/952J'Tanya Adams & Partners on "Every One On" Digital Divide
1/2No Forum
2017
12/26No Forum
12/1982Christmas Party; no live stream
12/1248Dr. Yolanda Holmes and staff on CMS "Invest in the West"
12/575Mecklenburg DIstrict Attorney Spencer B. Merriweather III
11/2855Robert Dawkins of ActionNC and SAFE Coalition NC police accountability project, on Charlotte Citizens Review Board reforms and tackling Charlotte's rising homicide rate
11/2134Open Forum
11/1439City of Charlotte attorney Kevin Dick on job opportunities program
11/7No Forum: General Election
10/3152Charlotte mayoral candidates
10/2447City Council candidates, Districts 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7
10/1740City Council At-Large candidates; District 2 Democratic candidate Justin Harlow
10/1048CMS School Board candidates, Districts 2, 4, 5, 6; (2nd Municipal Primary Day)
10/348CMS School Board candidates, Districts 1, 3
9/2691CMS Supt. Clayton Wilcox; Vote Yes For School Bonds Committee
9/1957Dr. Jessica Schorr Saxe on Improved Medicare for All (single-payer health insurance)
9/12No Forum: Charlotte Primary Election
9/552Democratic Council Dist. 1 & Dist. 5 primaries; Democratic Mayoral Candidate Joel Ford
8/2958Democratic Mayoral Primary
8/2254Democratic Council At-Large Primary
8/1553GOP Mayoral & GOP Dist. 6 Council primaries
8/858Democratic Council Dist. 2 and Dist. 4 Primaries
8/136LaToya Purvis, head of school of quasi-military charter school UpROAR Leadership Academy
7/2543Open Forum
7/1852Interim Public Health Director Gibbie Harris
7/1138Dr. Betty Howell Gray and others on August Parent Forum in Charlotte, part of the My Brother’s Keeper Program.
7/4The Forum will NOT meet on the Fourth of July.
6/27Meg Gibson, Charlotte organization development consultant, on "Take10CLT" initiative focused on increasing community engagement through feedback from residents on how to make Charlotte a better place to live. There will be no live stream today.
6/2037Toni Tupponce on community engagement efforts by the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization as it prepares its Metropolitan Transportation Plan for 2045.
6/1345Emmanuel “Manny” Ohonme, co-funder with his wife Tracie of Samaritan’s Feet International
6/646Neighborhood Matching Grants Program: Philip Freeman, Tommy Burch, Rickey Hall
5/3048Braxton David Winston ll, Virtuous Productions; Ryan Emmanuel and Maura Chavez, Charlotte Community Relations
5/2337“Chatty Hattie” Leeper, first African-American female on Charlotte radio, in the ‘50s.
5/1639Gerald Baucom, Campus Connections Bible Centered Teaching, a nonprofit ministry counseling 10th -12th-graders on educational and scholarship opportunities at historically black colleges and universities.
5/939Dr. Madeline McClenney-Sadler, president, Exodus Foundation
5/268City Manager Marcus Jones’ Budget Proposal: Jones and staff and members of Council’s Budget Committee.
4/2545Jay Privette on I-77 toll lanes
4/1853Todd Tibbits, YMCA Greater Charlotte
4/1171U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, D-NC
4/445Christy Kluesner, Citizens Climate Lobby, Charlotte Chapter
3/2851Sherrell Dorsey, host of #BLKTECHCLT, a quarterly event cultivating tech culture in Charlotte
3/2158Dena Diorio, Mecklenburg County Manager
3/1472Colette Forrest, president, Black Political Caucus; Carolyn Logan, president, Black Women’s Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg; Kerry Miller, president, Charlotte Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs; and Corine Mack, president, NAACP Charlotte.
3/761Rachelle Latimer, president and chief diversity officer for TRS&I Group, Inc., consultants on meeting equal opportunity program requirements
2/2859David Jessup, Dawn M. Hill, and Dr. Yolonda Holmes on April 20 Charlotte Career Discovery Day at Park Expo.
2/2163Clerk of Superior Court Elisa Chinn-Gary
2/1461Jacqie McWilliams, CIAA Commissioner
2/7108Darrell Allison, President, Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina
1/3141Willie Ratchford on officer-involved shooting
1/2459Dr. Ronald Carter, Johnson C. Smith University
1/1761Nakisa Glover of the Hip Hop Caucus on Community Engagement
1/1075Tiffany Capers, Charlotte Post Foundation on its Black Lives Matter programs
1/371Willie Ratchford, Community Relations executive director, with "a facilitated dialogue related to the officer involved shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott and the subsequent community reaction, including the 'Letter of Commitment' signed by over 2,000 people and City Council 'Letter To The Community.'"
2016
12/27No Forum
12/20No Forum
12/1373Christmas Party
12/641Stewart Creek & Commonwealth Charter Schools
11/2945Community Relations Committee's Council of Elders
11/22No Forum; Happy Thanksgiving!
11/1557Patrick Graham and Charlotte Works staff on Workforce Systems and Opportunity Pathways
11/8No Forum: Election Day
11/135Judicial candidates; any other candidates on the ballot and in the room who have not presented earlier; selection of Forum Grants Committee
10/2537Judicial candidates Vince Rozier, Bob Hunter, Ben Thalheimer, Aretha Blake, Tracy Hewett.
10/1871State and Federal candidates: Alma Adams, Dan Blue, Linda Coleman and Leon Threatt. Also Community Relations Committee Council of Elders.
10/1151State Auditor candidate Chuck Stuber; Soil & Water Board; Bea Thompson
10/450County commissioner candidates
9/2747N.C. General Assembly candidates
9/2056N.C. General Assembly candidates
9/1354Connie Green-Johnson, N.C. House 105; Peter Noris, N.C. House 104
9/670CMS Supt. Ann Clark
8/3047Chris Jackson of Goodwill Industries; Caroline Chambre Hammock of Urban Ministry Center on Housing First & Moore Place Expansion
8/2346Charles Thomas, Program Director for Knight Foundation Charlotte; and Helen Kimbrough on Reading Partners.
8/1649Tom Hanchett on History South
8/953Delores Johnson Hurt, League of Women Voters; open Forum on Black Lives Matter.
8/278CMPD Chief Kerr Putney.
7/2659The Americans with Disabilities Act; Erin Oliverio, City of Charlotte tree canopy manager, on public input phase of city’s master plan for trees.
7/1960Jess George, Google Fiber; and Munro Richardson, executive director of Read Charlotte
7/1251Christopher Dennis, founder of E-Fix Housing Solutions and president of Community Dream Builders, a nonprofit; and Bernice Feaster, founder of college and scholarship consulting service The Scholar Mom.
7/5NO FORUM; Fourth of July
6/2851Medical and mental health service professionals.
6/2171Housing Authority CEO Fulton Meachem, and Ken Szymanski from the Greater Charlotte Apartment Association
6/1476Three groups vying for Brooklyn Village redevelopment contract
6/735Open Forum
5/31579th, 12th District Congress, Republican and Democratic candidates
5/2444Yolanda Polk and Kenston Griffin from Dream Builders Communication, Inc. and Mario Jovan Shaw and Jason Terrell from Profound Gentlemen, the nonprofit ”dedicated to improving the quality of education for boys of color by ensuring they have consistent role models of success in male educators of color.”
5/1733Eric Montgomery on estate planning; and Elana Congress on Care Ring’s Nurse Family Partnership, Low-Cost Clinic, Physicians Reach Out and Marketplace health insurance.
5/1068County Manager Dena Diorio and county executives Christine Edwards, Peggy Eagan, Charles Bradley, Dr. Marcus Plescia and Joan Kennedy.
5/343Charlotte City Budget: Council member Greg Phipps, City Budget Director, other staff Director
4/2637Debra Weeks and staff, C.W. Williams Community Health Center
4/1946Pastor Hamani Fisher, City Dive Outreach Center, and Colin Pinkney, Executive Director of The Harvest Center of Charlotte, on community involvement.
4/1243Tamika Lewis, Robert Dawkins on engaging youth in improving their neighborhoods
4/547Maria Macon's Young Entrepreneurs Network members
3/2953Open Forum
3/2246Bonita Caldwell, president of Beatties Ford Memorial Gardens; and Dorothy Counts-Scoggins.
3/1552CMS Supt. Ann Clark and Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Public Schools Foundation Executive Director Sonja Gantt.
3/857Blanche Penn, child advocate; and Lucy Bush Carter, executive director of Friendship Trays.
3/163FOR MALACHI: Bring your stories about the works and wonders and foibles of the beloved Malachi Greene, who died Feb. 25.
2/2349Elisa Chinn-Gary, Clerk of Superior Court; Wilhelmenia Rembert, former school board chair; Queen Thompson, first African-American social worker for Union County.
2/1667Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte mayor; Harry Jones, former county manager; Steve Crump, video journalist; Ron Leeper, RJL Construction; Leon Miller, city diversity officer, interim Board of Elections chief
2/966CMS staff on Student Assignment Survey; (FYI, five mayors from cities in Albania will attend the Forum as part of International House’s Citizen Diplomacy Program.)
2/254Juanita C. Miller, retired FBI trailblazer; Carolyn Green Logan, first African-American female state trooper for the N.C. Highway Patrol, Also: Ken Koontz, advocate of creating an African-American agenda.
1/2659African-American Women who went First: Sarah Stevenson, school board; Ella Scarborough, county board; Beverly Earle, N.C. House; Joyce Waddell, N.C. Senate
1/1994Chief Public Defender Kevin Tully; OneMeck: Barry Sherman, Carol Sawyer, Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs, Kalya Romero, Justin Perry. First meeting at Belmont Center, 700 Parkwood Ave.
1/1267CIAA staff. Last meeting at Ivory Baker Recreation Center.
1/552Patrick Graham for the Urban League of Central Carolinas

 

DateAttendingSpeaker
2015
12/29No Forum
12/22 No Forum
12/15102Annual Christmas Party
12/862Alysia Osborne, Historic West End Initiative; Legislative delegation
12/152Dr. Deborah Walker: "Diversity, Multiculturalism, Equity, and Inclusion: Defining Moments"
11/2448Economic Opportunity Task Force (Dee O'Dell, Ophelia Garmon-Brown and Carol Morris); Brenda Robinson, first African-American female Navy pilot
11/1733Open Forum
11/1066County Manager Dena Diorio; assistants Mark Foster (Financial Services) and Anthony Trotman (Health & Human Services), and Peter Zeiler, director of economic development. Also: Terrell Ivory, assistant director of admission and head basketball coach at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
11/3NO FORUM: Election Day
10/2750Mayoral candidates Jennifer Roberts and Edwin Peacock
10/2032Sean Garrett, Director of United Way.
10/1345City Council district candidates
10/638Forum meets with City Council At-large candidates; Primary runoff
9/2950Primary runoff candidates Jennifer Roberts and Dan Clodfelter
9/2247Ken Simmons on "Another option to Improving the Educational Performance of Poor and Inner-city Youth in Mecklenburg  County"
9/15NO MEETING: municipal primary today
9/859CMS school board at-large candidates
9/167City Council district candidates with Sept. 15 primaries
8/2554Remaining At-large City Council candidates
8/1882At-large City Council candidates
8/1164Charlotte mayoral candidates
8/470Police Chief Kerr Putnam; Charlotte mayoral candidate Michael Barnes
7/2850Business owners Keith Haywood and Carolyn Mason
7/2154Transit Finance working group update and CATS 2030 Transit Corridor Plan
7/1435Mecklenburg GOP: Curtis Watkins, Derek Partee, Ty Turner
7/747Munro Richardson, Read Charlotte
6/3040Don Jonas, CareRing; Joyce Brooks, Charlotte Community Health; Susan Royster, NC Med Assist
6/2336Laura Clark on Renaissance West at old Boulevard Homes site
6/1664District Attorney Andrew Murray; CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe
6/945Steve Partridge and Danielle Frazier, Charlotte Works
6/242Matt Newton, Mecklenburg County Democratic Party; Cozzie Watkins, 12th District; Zach Deaton, 9th District.
5/2632Ericka Ellis-Stewart, Sal Caraco & Sheila Wall-Hill, Mental Health America of Central Carolinas (formerly the Mental Health Association) on ParentVOICE program and Suicide Prevention trainings for Mental Health Month.
5/1948Darrell Gregory, Juvenile Justice, PAL, Mayor's Mentoring
5/1242Google Fiber
5/552Warren Cooksey, Jean Leier, Tamaka Thornton on I-77 express lanes; Kim Eagle and Greg Phipps on City Budget
4/2843Commissioners with county update
4/2129Azizi Coleman, Piedmont Health Services & Sickle Cell Agency
4/1443Dale Mullennix on 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness; Tom Hanley, Commonwealth High School
4/776Mecklenburg Legislative Delegation
3/3136Debra Weeks, CEO and board chair William Walton, CW Williams Community Health Center
3/2473CMS Supt. Ann Clark
3/1734Connie Sessoms, Jr,. CMS Driver’s Education
3/1064Mary McCray, CMS Board of Education chairperson
3/363Ken Koontz, retired TV journalist
2/2428Chamber of Commerce President Bob Morgan
2/17Forum cancelled due to winter storm.
2/1063George Metz Jr., Tamara Hundley, Dr. Daisy Walker
2/360Corine Mack, new NAACP chapter president
1/2767City Manager Ron Carlee
1/2036Open Forum
1/1364Belk Foundation on program to have all children reading well by 3rd grade
1/642Desmond Wiggan, Doris Taylor, Primerica Financial Services
2014
12/1654Christmas Party.
12/928Beatties Ford Road median
12/242Open Forum
11/2558CMS board members Mary McCray, Tim Morgan, Ericka Ellis-Stewart, Joyce Waddell
11/1848Terry Ellington, Carolinas Care Partnership
11/1153Open Forum
11/4 No Forum: Election Day
10/28 51Statewide judicial races; Alisha Murphy for Sen. Kay Hagan; Supt. Heath Morrison
10/21 54Remaining county election contests
10/1453At-large County Commissioner candidates; NC Senate 38 Richard Rivette
10/742District County Commissioner candidates
9/3065Bond and sales tax questions on ballot; I-77 toll lanes proposal
9/2353N.C. Senate candidates
9/16NAN.C. House candidates
9/954Judicial candidates on the November ballot
9/249Maria Macon on Young Entrepreneur Network
8/2657Marc Friedland, Democratic Party chair; Lisa Barnes & LaTarzja Henry on CMS discipline
8/1943Darrell Gregory, Juvenile Crime Prevention Council; Malcolm Graham, JCSU Indaba
8/1256N.C. Sens. Joel Ford, Malcolm Graham on legislative changes made to the 2013 N.C. Budget.
8/533Warren Cooksey, outreach director for N.C. Dept. of Transportation District 10, ex-City Council member
7/29NADenada Jackson on Westfest and an update on Project L.I.F.T.
7/2250Open Forum
7/1528Gantt Center's Aisha Strothers & Jonell Logan; Valaida Fullwood
7/8 32Open Forum
7/1 60Trevor Fuller on sales tax vote; Thomas Hanley, principal, Commonwealth High School, a new charter
6/2427Open Forum
6/1736Megan Boler, League of Conservation Voters
6/1036Open Forum
6/373CMS Supt. Heath Morrison
5/2731Charlotte Budget Director Randy Harrington, council members Phipps, Driggs & Mayfield
5/2038NC Court of Appeals candidate Lucy Inman; Open Forum
5/1371County Manager Dena Diorio's Budget Roadshow.
5/6 No Forum. Primary Election Day.
4/2941James Ford, N.C. Teacher of the Year.
4/2251Primary election candidates: Antoine Ensley, Dondhi Burrell, Vince Coakley, Curtis Osborne;
   (Candidates to succeed NC Sen. Dan Clodfelter: Amelia Stinson-Wesley, Darrell Bonatpart)
4/1549C.W. Williams Community Health Center: Laura McClettie, Leon Burton, Mark Bason
4/86512th District Congress candidates: George Battle, Malcolm Graham, Archie Threatt
4/1 52Remaining primary candidates. Attending: Vilma Leake, Irwin Carmichael
3/2568Jonathan Sink, Akeshia Craven-Howell and LaTarzja Henry from CMS on NC charter school law
3/1865At-large County Commissioner candidates, plus any other candidates attending
3/1137Sandra Clory on Ethopian Jews; Millard House on New Leaders
3/4 46 T.D. Elder and Vivian Herron, among Mecklenburg's first public health nurses.
2/2545Arthur Griffin, Sarah Stevenson on school issues
2/1829MEETING at Wallace Pruitt Rec Center at Bruns Ave. Elementary for Heritage Exhibit
2/1128Anna Hood, Fannie Flono
2/442T'Afo Feimster, Latibah Collard Green Museum; author Dr. Gyasi Foluke; photographer Greg McMurray.
1/2828Shah Alam, Patrick Chang on Charlotte microlender Grameen America.
1/2138Open Forum
1/1453Commissioners Chair Trevor Fuller; Carmen Blackmon of Above and Beyond tutoring program.
2013
12/17  Annual Christmas Party
12/1037Open Forum
12/338CMS West Supt. Allen Smith
11/26NAHarry Jones
11/1931Open Forum
11/1234Susan Royster of NC MedAssist, Laura McClettie of C.W. Williams Community Health Center.
11/5   No Forum; General Election.
10/2956Supt. Heath Morrison; Charlotte mayoral candidates.
10/2246District Charlotte City Council candidates.
10/1548At-large Charlotte City Council candidates.
10/8  No Forum: 2nd Primary Election Day
10/158School board district candidates in Districts 1, 5 and 6.
9/2442School board candidates in District 2 and 4.
9/1747Yana Symone Smith, vice president, Teach for America; Chiquitha Lloyd, administrator of CMS's Minority, Women, and Small Business Enterprise (MWSBE) Program; and Eric Watson, executive director, Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council.
9/10  No Forum: Primary Election Day
9/3 68Democratic candidates for mayor
8/2758GOP mayoral and GOP City Council contests on the Sept. 14 primary
8/2063City Council candidates at-large and District 4
8/13NANew Generation of African American Philanthropists
8/648Charlotte Mayor Patsy Kinsey
7/30NA 
7/2339Chef Barry Francois, Queen City Mobile Market with Friendship Gardens' Henry
Owen
7/1638Mary Nell McPherson, executive director, Freedom School Partners
7/932Open Forum
7/240Arthur Griffin, former chairperson, CMS Board of Education
6/2542CMS West Supt. Allen Smith (Berry, Harding, West Meck); Greater Enrichment
Program Ex. Director Bronica Glover; Gantt Center marketer Sharon Holm.
6/1838John Hicks, Innervision
6/1143Johnson C. Smith University officials on Indaba, a conference for Northwest
Corridor residents on July 27
6/441Kaa Ma'at on low-power radio station; Henry Hardy Jr. on support program for
offenders after release.
5/28 58CMS Supt. Heath Morrison
5/2140Open Forum: Harry Jones comment, Gantt Center, Housing Partnership, Greensboro
conference.
5/1426Open Forum discussion of the firing of County Manager; Commissioner Trevor
Fuller responded.
5/7 28Arvis Williams, Mecklenburg Child Support Enforcement; Rep. Rodney Moore
4/3070Free Breakfast at Varick Renaissance Center; Brisbane students to report on trip
to South Africa
4/2348A. Fulton Meachem Jr., CEO, Charlotte Housing Authority
4/1632Elon Homes & Schools for Children: Dr. Frederick Grosse, president, Nikki Keith,
devt. director.
4/936Damian Johnson, Chick-fil-A Leadercast
4/2 26John White, former Democratic chair, Precinct 210; Bernice Feaster, college
financial aid adviser
3/2654Women's History Month, Part 4: CMS Chairperson Mary McCray; Observer Associate
Editor Fannie Flono; former assistant city manager Vi Lyles; and CMS Chief
Communications Officer Kathryn Block.
3/1952 Women's History Month, Part 3: Whitni Wilson-Wertz, Junior League of Charlotte
president; Dr. Trasha Black, Genesis Project 1 clinical director; Nicole Dean,
Belk.
3/1224Women's History Month, Part 2:  charter owner Stacy Rose, CMS Title 1 exec
Dr. Nicole Priestly, Toni Tupponce, A Sign of the Times of the Carolinas
3/526Women's History Month, Part 1: Geneal Gregory, Karen Gipson, Carolyn Pitts,
Cynthia Harris.
2/2642CMS COO Millard House, Accountability Officer Frank Barnes, Chief of Staff
Earnest Winston
2/1926Open Forum
2/1239John A. Wall Jr., principal, West Charlotte High
2/547LaTarzja Henry,  CMS Assistant Superintendent for Community Partnerships
and Parent Engagement
1/2957Eric Guckian, executive director, New Leaders
1/2226Sheila Peltzer, Kids Need 2 Parents
1/1529Open Forum.
1/845Phyllis Handford, head of StudentFirst Academy Charter School
1/1 No Forum

 

DateAttendingSpeaker
2012
12/25 No Forum
12/1859Christmas Party
12/1133Beverly Irby on upcoming changes in health care, Medicare and Medicaid
12/429Open Forum
11/2731 West Charlotte High School Asst. Principal George Harden, Vol. Coordinator Daisy
Walker
11/2029Gantt Center Director of Advancement Tiffany Graham, Marketing Specialist Sharon
Holm
11/1333Brandi Williams, Project L.I.F.T.
11/6Election Day; No Forum
10/3027Open Forum
10/2350N.C. Governor, U.S. House, Soil & Water, Register of Deeds candidates
10/1651Judge candidates
10/943County Commissioner district candidates
10/244County commissioner at-large candidates
9/2555N.C. House candidates, Sen. Dan Clodfelter
9/1832N.C. Senate candidates
9/1158CMS Supt. Heath Morrison
9/4 No Forum during Democratic National Convention week
8/2842Steve Partridge, CEO of Charlotte Works, a workforce training and job placement
program
8/2168Police Chief Rodney Monroe, DNC Host Committee's Dr. Dan Murrey on convention
security
8/1486Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx
8/729Ben Carroll, Coalition to March on Wall Street South
7/3137A'Shanti Gholar, Democratic National Convention coordinator of public engagement.
7/2433Democracy NC's Robert Dawkins, Zaina Alsous and Stefan Weathers on
get-out-the-vote efforts
7/17 No Forum: N.C. 2nd Primary
7/1029Charity Bell, CMS Central Secondary Zone
7/344Denise Watts, Project L.I.F.T
6/2625Sam Divine Jr. of Atlanta on "Battlegrounds to Boardrooms: Life Lessons from The
Liberian Civil War..."
6/1947Michael Barnes and David Howard on city budget and tax-hike plan; JCSU students
on Kenya trip; Daks McClettie and Howard Johnson from Johnson's State Farm
Insurance agency
6/1233Stoney Sellars, president, Technology Project Management Inc.
6/5 28Delores Reid-Smith, LaWana Mayfield from the MLK Holiday Planning Committee
5/2937David Howard, Ruffin Hall, City bond proposal and tax increase to pay for it
5/2233Open Forum
5/1531Healthcare For All Charlotte on "Improved Medicare For All: Everybody In, Nobody
Out."
5/8NO FORUM -- Election Day and site is in use as a precinct polling place
5/142Judges in May 8 primaries
4/2434N.C. Senate primaries
4/1737N.C. House primaries
4/1046U.S. House 12th, commissioners; James Mitchell on city support for baseball stadium
4/336County commissioner district candidates in May 8 primary
3/2761County commissioner at-large candidates in May 8 primary
3/2033Dr. Patrick Graham, CEO, Urban League of Central Carolinas
3/1337Dr. Gyasi Foluke: Solutions, the conclusion to Feb. 28's "A Scheme Beyond
the Dream"
3/634Sadie Jordan with James Jeter, Red Cross donor recruitment
representative
2/28
57Dr. Gyasi Foluke on Martin Luther King: A Scheme Beyond the Dream
2/2143Brisbane Academy student presentation on less well-known contributors to Black
History
2/1439Community resources: NAACP, Democratic Party's African American Coalition, Black
Women's Caucus, Black Pol. Caucus
2/757Aisha Dew, Meck. Democrats; Vi Lyles, DNC Host Committee
1/3142 Jean Desravines, CEO of New York-based New Leaders
1/2438Carolina Bonilla, Jenny Wade, Anuvia Substance Abuse Prevention & Recovery
Center
1/1765Ericka Ellis-Stewart, Mary McCray of CMS School Board
1/1043Queen Thompson on 'Let's Have A Talk' program to help teens know expectations at
malls
1/3 No Forum
2011AttendingSpeaker
12/27 No Forum
12/2070Christmas Party
12/1326Open Forum
12/625"Rai" Glover, owner of Vigilant Healthcare Staffing, a home care agency
11/2927Tyler Ream, Charity Bell, CMS Central Zone
11/2235Stephán "Coach Q" Askew, Q Foundation
11/1543Denise Watts, Project L.I.F.T.
11/8 No Forum : Site in use for ELECTION DAY
11/136Valaida Fullwood, Charles Thomas on new book "Giving Back"
10/2534School board candidate Darrin Rankin
10/1851 Charlotte Mayor candidates
10/1127City Council District candidates
10/425Pam Jefsen and Sherry Waters-Wilson, McCreesh Place
9/2743At-large City Council candidates
9/2027Open Forum
9/13 No Forum; city primary election
9/628City Council candidates
8/3048Denise Watts, Project L.I.F.T.; Annette Taylor, N.C. Center for Women in Public
Service
8/2361City Council candidates
8/1628School board candidates Bumgarner, Scher; City Council candidate Claire Fallon
8/943School board candidates Dashew, Ellis-Stewart, McCray, Morgan, Plotseneder,
Pomis.
8/236Brandi Williams, Jason Farafooei, Crossroads Charlotte
7/2666School board Chair Eric Davis, Interim Supt. Hugh Hattabaugh
7/1931Brenda Hayden,
Builders of Hope
7/1250UNCC's Roslyn Mickelson on education research; Dan Murrey
on 2012 DNC Convention
7/5 No Forum
6/2838N.C. legislators Kelly Alexander, Charlie Dannelly, Beverly Earle, Rodney Moore
6/2127Pat McCoy, Action NC on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
6/1426Araminta Johnston, author of "And One Was A Priest" about a Mississippian acting
for racial justice
6/728Frank Parker, Barbara Edwards Parker, Lonnie Davis for the Jazz Arts Initiative
5/3126Rev. Marty McCarthy on Regents Schools; Robert Dawson & Democracy NC interns on
N.C.legislation
5/2436Open Forum
5/1734Joe & B.B. DeLaine, Tom Hanchett commemorating Briggs v. Elliott and Brown v.
Board
5/1030John Maye, Save Our Schools for "Five for 55" coalition on school funding
5/322Open Forum
4/2641Richard "Stick" Williams for CMS Investment Study Group
4/1923Torrey Feimster on March of Dimes Walk; Feimster and Malcolm Graham on JSCU
corridor initiatives
4/1223Cheryl Emmanuel on Seeds of Wellness Walk; Mary McCray on pay-for-performance
4/520Mecklenburg Acts: Pamela Grundy, Carol Sawyer, Louise Woods
3/2938Women who broke barriers: Fannie Flono, Shirley Fulton, Vicki Hamilton, Gail Sloan, Clara Williams
3/2238Candidates for Chair of the Mecklenburg Democratic Party
3/1529Center for Community Change, Washington, D.C.
3/828Robert Dawkins, Democracy NC, on state and local redistricting following Census 2010
3/130 Get Real 2011 discussion facilitated by Crossroads Charlotte
2/2275Celebrating Black History with a number of
Charlotteans who broke barriers
2/15 42Janet Cowell, N.C. Treasurer
2/8 27Tracy Russ, Crossroads Charlotte; Cindy Montgomery, Charlotte Observer
2/136Terry Ellington, Carolinas CARE Partnership on AIDS
1/2546Mike Raible, CMS Executive Director for Planning and Project Management
1/1847Charlotte Housing Authority CEO Charles Woodyard
1/11 Forum cancelled due to snowstorm
1/4 No Forum
   
2010AttendingSpeaker
12/28 No Forum
12/21 No Forum
12/1444Annual Party
12/734UNCC Prof. Elizabeth Racine, Health Dept.'s Alison Mignery, Food Policy Council's Marilyn Marks
11/3025Open Forum
11/2324Sadie Jordan on Sickle Cell Disease
11/1648Cheryl Emanuel, Health Disparity Initiative; Arthur Griffin, former CMS board chair
11/930Robin Emmons on screening of movie "Fresh" Tuesday night
11/2 No Forum: General Election Day
10/2651All county commissioner candidates on Nov. 2 ballot
10/1950All legislative candidates on Nov. 2 ballot
10/1261Board members and Supt. Peter Gorman on CMS Comprehensive Review
10/547Sheriff, District Attorney
9/2835Senate 40: Malcolm Graham, John Aneralla; Senate 37: Dan Clodfelter; House 99: Rodney Moore, Michael Wilson (invited); House 106: Martha Alexander
9/2128NC House and NC Senate candidates
9/1440Mecklenburg District Court Judge candidates
9/725Genesis Project
8/3149Open Forum on solutions to education issues, a follow-up to the Aug. 24 session
8/2438Ken Simmons, education committee of the NAACP [First Forum to begin at 8:30 a.m.]
8/1714Open Forum
8/1023Laura McClettie, U.S. Census
8/3 39CMS Board Chair Eric Davis, Vice Chair Tom Tate
7/2734Carlenia Ivory, Jeri Haigler about CMS's Parent University
7/2020Open Forum
7/1315Marilyn Marks, Society of St. Andrew gleaners
7/615Blanche Penn's Winners PLUS Agency along with the Silver Fox Senior Cheerleaders
6/2955CMS board members Joyce Waddell and Richard McElrath
6/22 No Forum: 2nd Primary Election Day.
6/1535Ron Shepherd, Maurice Jones, vocational education
6/821Ken Koontz; Rev. Geoff Lowson, New Castle, England; Darryl Bego, Youth Development Initiatives
6/123Friendship Trays' Lucy Bush Carter and Slow Food Charlotte on their garden partnership
5/2538Carolyn Flowers, CEO, Charlotte Area Transit
5/1828Kim Dickerson, Freedom School Partners
5/1167CMS Assistant Supts. Curtis Carroll and Tyler Ream
5/4 No Forum: Primary Election Day
4/2748Judges in May 4 primaries; Sheriff candidates in May 4 Democratic primary
4/2032House Dist. 101 Primary: Rocky Bailey, Beverly Earle; Dist. 102: Becky Carney, Ken Davies, Kim Ratliff.
4/1337Senate Dist. 40 Primary: Malcolm Graham; House Dist. 99 Primary: Rodney Moore
4/629Legislative primaries: NC Senate 37 GOP (Vince Coscia, Morgan Edwards); NC Senate 40 Dem (Malcolm Graham, John Montgomery)
3/3088CMS Supt. Peter Gorman and Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones
3/2340County Commissioner candidates involved in May 4 primaries; legislators on voting record documents
3/1670Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx
3/927Al Austin, McCrorey Branch YMCA
3/242Police Chief Rodney Monroe
2/2344Members of the Mecklenburg delegation to the N.C. Legislature
2/1631Watched Reggie Bullock's Internet video, "A War For Your Soul"
2/930B.B. DeLaine on Brown, the sit-ins, CMS desegregation and the ongoing fight against all discrimination
2/247Elected officials from school board, City Council, County Commissioners and N.C. House
1/2624Open Forum which developed questions to be addressed by N.C. legislators at a future meeting
1/1927Alvin Wallace, Youth Empowered to Bring Change
1/1236Annual Forum Party
1/531Sharon Wright, RISE gang prevention and career education program at Garinger High
 

 

DateAttendingSpeaker
2009
12/29 No Forum
12/22 No Forum.
12/1527Vincent King, First Tee; Tayuanee Dewberry, Right Moves for Youth; Jeremiah Hopes, Center for Hopes
12/831Elijah Watson, Striving Together Achieving Real Solutions; Derrick Long, Police Activities League
12/122 Brian Willis, president-elect, 100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte, Inc.
11/2425Rev. Ricky Woods, pastor of First Baptist West and chair of its Community Services Association
11/1728Lawrence Tolliver for the Charlotte chapter of National Black Child Development Institute
11/1025Cathy Sheafor, Charlotte Community School for Girls
11/3 Election day.
No Meeting. (Site is used as a polling place.)
10/2728Charlotte City Council candidates in Districts 6, 7
10/2039Charlotte mayoral candidates Anthony Foxx and John Lassiter
10/1332Charlotte City Council at-large candidates
10/622CMS school board candidates from District 6
9/2949U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, 11th District
9/2241CMS school board candidates from District 3
9/15 City Primary Election. No Meeting. (Site is used as a polling place.)
9/837CMS school board candidates from District 1, 2
9/127Charlotte GOP mayoral candidates Martin Davis and John Lassiter
8/2536City Council District 2, District 5 and some At-Large Democrats unable to be at Aug. 11 Forum
8/1837City Council At-Large Republican candidates
8/1130City Council At-Large Democratic candidates
8/450CMS Supt. Peter Gorman
7/2811Visit to Harambee! hour at Freedom School, Johnson C. Smith University
7/2139Curtis Carroll, CMS Area Superintendent for the Achievement Zone
7/1417Open Forum
7/734Roslyn Jacobs and Kathy Ridge, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education: local, U.S. education trends
6/3031Ken Simmons on education of children in CMS, from a black educator's perspective
6/2332Dr. Vernon M. Herron, practicing genealogist, on persons and places of interest discovered locally
6/1617Open Forum
6/939Dr. Ronald L. Carter, president, J.C. Smith University
6/243Civil rights attorney Julius Chambers
5/2624Mary Nell McPherson for Freedom Schools
5/1917 Winona Chestnut for Fighting Back, Jennifer DeRue for City Economic Development
5/1212Eunice Dudley, CFO of Dudley Products (Power outage forced move to Ivory Baker Center)
5/542County Manager Harry Jones
4/2826MIddle School Matters: Claire Tate and Kate Shem, POST; Dena Paulding, YMCA University City
4/2124Dr. Trasha Black & Henry Black, Genesis Project; Rhonda Blackmon, Joy Within Enrichment Center
4/1423Terry Ellington, Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium; Trish Hobson, Emergency Men's Shelter
4/742Molly Griffin, chairperson, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
3/3134Allegra Westbrooks, Magnolia Pickens and other women first to break racial barriers in Charlotte
3/2433Mary Wilson, Department of Social Services; Carrie Gibson, project director of "Achieve Together"
3/1729Women who broke barriers: Sarah Coleman, Thereasea Elder, Anna Hood
3/1026Fannie Flono, Charlotte Observer editorial writer
3/3 No meeting due to icy roads
2/2423Charles Woodyard, CEO, Charlotte Housing Authority
2/1720Katie Oates on growing food in North Tryon neighborhoods
2/1024Ken Koontz, WENS-TV, on inauguration coverage from Washington D.C.
2/3 21Robert Dawkins, Democracy N.C. on campaign finance reform
1/2722John Crawford, Rev. Marty McCarthy on Regents School
1/208Eric Guckian, Executive Director, New Leaders for New Schools
1/1340James Ross, recently appointed District 3 school board member
1/626LaWana Mayfield, Grassroots Leadership Mecklenburg Justice Project
   
2008AttendingSpeaker
12/30 No meeting
12/23 No meeting
12/1657Christmas Party
12/917Rev. Melvin Whitley, Stop the Bullet Coalition
12/231Pam Jefsen, CEO of American Red Cross Carolinas Chapter
11/25 No Forum: Thanksgiving Week
11/1816Hospice Ex. VP Pam Barrett
11/1121Election recap; Martha Gamble Hall
11/4 No Forum: Election Day
10/2831NC Senate, Bonds
10/2119District Court Judges
10/1437NC House, 9th District House
10/730County commission at-large candidates
9/3048Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue
9/2326Parent University Sue Gorman
9/1633Supt. Peter Gorman
9/919Saundra Scales, First Legacy Credit Union; Nancy Stroud, Anita Stroud Foundation
9/224SwannFellowship
8/2628New city, county officials: DSS Director Mary Wilson; Assistant City Manager Eric Campbelll; Chief Information Officer Jeffrey Stovall; CATS CEO Keith Parker; presented by Community Relations Committee Director Willie Ratchford; City Manager Curt Walton attended and spoke.
8/1924Nutrition Coalition Marilyn Marks Society of St. Andrew Beverly Howard Loaves and Fishes Ron Ahlert Community Culinary School of Charlotte Sibyl Durant Friendship Trays Lucy Bush Carter Friendship Trays
8/1221Census 2010 Laura McClettie
8/524CMS magnets: Vilma Leake, Tom Tate, Robbie Kale
7/2914United Family Services housing counseling
7/2246Police Chief Rodney Monroe
7/1525Kevin Vinson, YMCA
7/833Harry Jones, county manager
7/120Ahmad Daniels
6/2424Robert Dawkins, Democracy South
6/1720No speaker
6/1025Joel Ford, Mecklenburg Democratic Party
6/362Supt. Peter Gorman
5/2722Marlon Smith, Success By Choice
5/2023Ulysses Ford
5/1320Alvin Curry
5/6No meeting: Primary election
4/29249th District Congress
4/2230District Court judges
4/1536Nathaniel Cooper, Trista Allen, Harold Cogdell
4/838Edy Brotherton, Nick Mackey, Drew Saunders
4/136Mary Richardson, Kelly Alexander, Lloyd Scher
3/2530Commissioner District 2 Democratic primary
3/1821Commissioner Democratic primary
3/1123Toni Tupponce
3/427Colette Jeffries, CMS afterschool programs
2/2639West Charlotte High School Gospel Choir
2/1928Ken Koontz
2/1232Beatrice Thompson
2/534Generation Engage
1/2938Malcolm Graham, Vi Lyles, CM3A
1/2215Jim Garges, Park and Recreation
1/1534Kendrick Gholston, James Matthews, Middle School Matters
1/833Ralph Taylor, Aretha Blake
2007AttendingSpeaker
12/1848Christmas Party
12/1124Mixed Income Housing Coalition
12/428Nick Mackey
11/2716No speaker
11/2021League of Women Voters on school funding
11/1331Westside Episcopal School
11/6No meeting: Election Day
10/3023Discussion of 11-6 election
10/2326At-large City Council
10/1632At-large school board
10/929Pat McCrory
10/225Beverly Earle
9/2522Dennis Rash
9/1827Debra Campbell
9/11No meeting: Primary election
9/417No speaker
8/2832Transit tax repeal advocate Don Reid
8/2134City Manager Curt Walton
8/1417No speaker
8/712No speaker
7/31NAYolanda Harris
7/2438Supt. Peter Gorman
7/1721No speaker
7/1031City Council members James Mitchell, Michael Barnes
7/3No meeting

A note on attendance counts

Attendance counts are estimates. The Forum has never asked participants to sign in; a short-lived county demand at Ivory-Baker Rec Center, for signing in by name plus other identifying information, was routinely ignored by attendees.

From 2008 through 2020, attendance counts represent the number of heads counted in real time at Forum meetings. People come and go at Forum meetings, so the following collection system was routinely used: Head counts were generally taken three times, sometimes conducted by more than one person. To the highest head count, six additional persons were added, to account somewhat for the comings and goings. From October 2015, when livestreams began, through March 2021, the number of people watching livestreams was not recorded, so total viewers (combining in-person plus livestream) might be somewhat understated.

From March 2, 2021 through May 10, 2022, the published attendance count combines in-person audience (zero because of COVID), the net participant count from the Webex virtual event, clicks during the meeting on the livestream as published on Facebook and, later, YouTube, and visits to this website’s Forum Live page during the time of the livestream broadcast. Net participant count in Webex means that many people come and go in Webex as well, and their second, third and sometimes fourth sign-ons during a single meeting were not counted.

From May 24, 2022 forward, attendance count will include in-person head count, plus livestream viewers. Initially, the Webex room will be closed. If it is reopened, then a Webex count will return to the weekly attendance figures.

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