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![]() DeSoto Kansas Economic Update
Oct 04, 2024
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Migrant Situation in Kansas City
Oct 11, 2024
Karla Juarez - Executive Director Karla Juarez has served as the Executive Director of AIRR since September of 2020. She was born in Chihuahua Mexico and raised in New Mexico. Karla Graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelors in political science and has a background in business management.
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Oct 12, 2024 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Free and open to the public, Rumba Latina is sponsored by Advocacy and Awareness Group of Johnson County and features music, foods, dancing, and educational opportunities. Held in downtown Olathe. For more info: https://www.aagjc.org/events
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Oct 14, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Oct 14, 2024 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Grandparents for Gun Safety's 11th annual forum is at 6 pm Monday Oct. 14 at Arrupe Auditorium on the Rockhurst University campus, 5401 Troost. The event features:
Two tickets are $150. |
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Oct 16, 2024
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Next Page KC
Oct 18, 2024
Eric Wesson is a Kansas City native who has led a diverse and impactful career. He served in the United States Marine Corps for six years, with postings at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Marine Barracks White House. After his military service, Eric pursued higher education, earning degrees in Political Science from Morehouse College and Clinical Psychology with a focus on Early Childhood Development from Howard University. Following his passion for education, Eric worked as an elementary school teacher in the Kansas City, Missouri School District for five years. He later transitioned into journalism, starting as a reporter for the Kansas City CALL newspaper. His dedication and talent led him to the positions of Managing Editor and Publisher until June 2023. In June 2023, Eric embarked on a new venture by launching Next Page KC, where he serves as the founder and Publisher. Committed to community service, Eric is actively involved in various organizations. He chairs the Board of Directors for Palestine Missionary Baptist Church of Jesus Christ and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Kansas City Museum Foundation. In his personal life, Eric is a loving husband to Candance J. Wesson and a devoted father to Amanda Bradley, (Vincent) Brianna McNeil, Erica Wesson, and Eric Wesson Jr. He cherishes his role as a grandfather to Vincent IV, Theodore, and Delila. Through his professional endeavors and community involvement, Eric Wesson continues to make a significant impact in Kansas City and beyond. |
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![]() Historic Buildings Repurposed into Affordable Housing
Oct 25, 2024
Caleb Buland, AIA, is a visionary architect, dedicated preservationist, and astute Caleb’s commitment to urban renewal extends beyond the design; his investments Recognized for his contributions to the field, Exact's work stands as a testament to the |
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![]() Publisher, Kansas City Defender
Nov 01, 2024
Ryan Sorrell Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation's most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago's top Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founded one of Kansas City's largest Black-led Abolitionist direct action groups during the 2020 uprisings. He was a key organizer in the October 2021, 21 day occupation on the grounds of Kansas City's City Hall following the horrific brutalization of a 9-month pregnant Black woman by a KCPD officer, and formerly, he was temporarily suspended from his college at Loyola University of Chicago for organizing the largest social justice demonstration in university history, before being pardoned by the President in the university's first ever pardon resulting from national outcry about the situation. During Ryan's professional career he's consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google. He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Innovator of the Year by the Local Media Association, and Emerging Leader of the Year from the Institute for Nonprofit News. He has engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; DemocracyNow, NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, as well as the Annual International Symposium. Most recently he founded the nation's fastest growing Black nonprofit digital news startup and community organization, The Kansas City Defender. Under Ryan's leadership the Black-led organization has broken over 20 national news stories, reaching over 50 million people and growing a social media following of over 85,000 across platforms since its launch in 2021. |
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![]() Evidence-based Techniques for Brain Recovery After Trauma
Nov 08, 2024
Jennifer Sweeton Bio and Description Description: More than 50% of us will experience at least one traumatic event in our lives, and we know from brain science that even one trauma can alter brain activity. However, these changes don't have to be permanent, and with a little bit of knowledge and know-how, we can all begin to take steps to change our brain in the direction of health, maximizing attention, emotion regulation, problem-solving, and tackling unwanted thoughts. This presentation will present attendees with some fast, evidence-based techniques for brain recovery after trauma! Bio: Originally trained as a neuroscientist, Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a clinical and forensic psychologist, Amazon #1 best-selling author in clinical psychology, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma recovery and the neuroscience of mental health. She is the author of the Trauma Treatment Toolbox (PESI Publishing), Train Your Brain Card Deck (PESI Publishing and Media), Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness (W. W. Norton & Company), and the Traumatic Stress Recovery Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, Inc). She has a private practice on the Country Club Plaza.
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Nov 11, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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![]() Aging In Place with Dignity: The PACE Approach
Nov 15, 2024
Heath Rath Executive Director, PACE KC Heath Rath has spent his professional career working to build and expand evidence-based programs that improve the lives of older adults. Over the last six years, he has focused his efforts on the development of programs that aim to allow older adults to age gracefully in the communities they call home, specifically PACE Programs. PACE – Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly – is a model of care that provides a full range of person-centered health and wellness services that empower individuals age 55+ to age in place rather than be institutionalized. PACE KC is a newly formed non-profit, championed by Swope Health, to bring the PACE model of care to the residents of Kansas City for the first time. Heath worked with Swope Health to successfully lobby members of the Missouri Senate and House of Representatives as well as the Missouri Department of Social Services, MO Health Net Division, to support and appropriate PACE funding. Prior to his work with Swope Health, Heath served as Director of Midland Care Connection’s Ann Street PACE Center in Kansas City, Kansas. During his time at Midland, he oversaw the development and successful launch of Midland’s third Center and the first PACE Program in the Kansas City metro area. Heath earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and secondary major in Gerontology from Kansas State University. He went on to complete a Master of Science in Gerontology with an emphasis in long-term care administration. While earning his M.S. at Kansas State he worked in the College of Health and Human Sciences Center on Aging as a project specialist for the PEAK 2.0 program. Heath is a licensed long-term care administrator in the state of Kansas. |
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Nov 20, 2024
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Nov 21, 2024 6:30 PM
Nominations for the 2024 RISE Business Awards Are Open Kansas City Plaza Rotarians are asked to nominate businesses for the 2024 RISE Business Awards. The awards recognize minority—and women-owned businesses in the KC Metro area whose owners adhere to the principles of the Four Way Test in operating the businesses. Nominations are free and easy, and business owners may nominate their own businesses. Nominees complete the entry form, and independent judges review entries to select the top three businesses. Kansas City Plaza Rotary Club members vote on the winner. The winner receives a free one-year membership in Plaza Rotary and a custom promotional video. Nominations are due July 31, 2024. Save the Date – for the second annual awards ceremony, 6 p.m. Thursday, November 21, at The American Jazz Museum. RISE stands for Rotary Investing and Supporting Equity. |
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![]() Rwanda Nurses Saving Lives - A Rotary Vocational Training Team Global Grant
Dec 06, 2024
Rwanda Nurses Saving Lives is a Rotary vocational training team global grant being conducted in Rwanda in 2024-2025. The purpose of the project is to train front-line, health center nurses who operate in remote areas without physician support in the early detection of strep throat to prevent the development of rheumatic heart disease. The project has been piloted in Rwanda and a three-person team is now engaged in implementation through five district. hospitals that whose catchment area covers about 10% of the country. The instructional team includes two doctoral level nurse practitioners who are advanced practice cardiology nurses and Venters who serves as the grant direction and co-evaluator for the project. This team will move this project to Zambi in 2026.
Dr. Cassy Venter's professional career was with the University of Missouri Extension Service Small Busienss Development Centers where she served in business and leadership develpment roles. During that time, she served for thirteen years and director of a leadership exchange program with the Ministry of the Interior of the Royal Thai government. In Rotary, she has served as a District Governor, District Rotary Foundation Chair, Youth Exchange Outbound Coordinator, Rotary Youth Leadership Coordinator, Group Study Exchange Leader, Kansas City Plaza Rotary Club president and she currently serves as District 6040 Peace and Conflice Resolution Chair and the communications chair of the Kansas City Plaza Rotary Club and grants chair of the Lander Wyoming Rotary Club. |
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![]() Zhou Brothers Art Gallery
Dec 13, 2024
Allan Gray is a former Lee’s Summit city councilman and a longtime arts advocate in Kansas City. He is a graduate of Paseo High School and then went away to Morehouse College, returning to Kansas City in 1976 with a political science degree. He is active in the community, involved in community service organizations including the Black Economic Union, the Missouri Arts Council and Cultural Trust, and the Missouri Council on Economic Education. He is the founder of the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey. Now, he serves as a partner at Zhou Brothers Art Center in Kansas City, the new $20-plus million art center in the historic 18th and Vine district. |
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Dec 14, 2024 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
GIFT Hosts Holiday Business Market: Join Kansas City G.I.F.T for its Holiday Business Market on December 14th at 11:00 a.m. at GIFT offices, 5008 Prospect Ave., Kansas City, MO 64130 Enjoy a day of shopping and support Black-owned businesses. Admission is free. (GIFT is Generating Income for Tomorrow, a RISE Microloan partner.)
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Dec 16, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Justice Committee December 2024 meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88600300160?pwd=2isOa9rSkZhK9b1u4DqWOMolk0fEMf.1 Meeting ID: 886 0030 0160 Discussion topics:
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Dec 18, 2024
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Dec 20, 2024
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From Normandy to Berlin - A Soldier's story
Jan 10, 2025
“A WWII Soldier’s Story—Omaha Beach to Berlin” This is a first-person account of one soldier’s journey from being 4-F, to getting certified as a forward observer where the survival rate was 20%, becoming a tank driver and fighting in all 5 major campaigns in northern Europe. One of his fighting buddies found a German camera and took pictures of the soldier and others during the fighting. The story includes how he ended up with the pictures and survived from Omaha Beach to Berlin and how he coped beyond. BIO Martin Bauer is a life-long Kansan. Farm boy from near Clay Center, Kansas, K-State undergrad, KU Law School followed by Judicial Clerkship with the Honorable Richard Rogers and now 47 years with Martin Pringle Oliver Wallace & Bauer. Handled commercial litigation that evolved into trying contested adoptions to adoption practice. Now handles all Guardianships/Conservatorships for Ascension Hospital for all hospitals in Kansas. President of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Helped found Wichita Montessori, Chaired the Kansas Arts Commission. Past President of Downtown Rotary Club, Past District Governor. Married to Ann, 3 children, 5 grandchildren. Loves tennis, pickleball and international hiking. |
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Jan 15, 2025
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![]() What's New at Starlight Theatre
Jan 17, 2025
In April 2023, Lindsey Rood-Clifford became the first woman to serve as President and CEO for the Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City, Inc. in its nearly 75-year history. Starlight is an 8,000-seat outdoor amphitheater that presents nationally touring and locally produced Broadway, a national concert series each summer, and provides arts access, community engagement, and education programming. Prior to her current role, Lindsey served as Chief Operating Officer and Starlight’s Vice President of Philanthropy, leading philanthropic efforts for Kansas City’s oldest and largest continually operating performing arts venue. Under her leadership, Starlight’s philanthropic revenue expanded by more than 50% and the organization launched its largest capital campaign in more than 20 years - a $40 million dollar fundraising effort to support capital improvements and programming expansions in time for the World Cup in Kansas City in 2026 and Starlight's 75th anniversary. A lifelong arts enthusiast and advocate, Lindsey believes that access to meaningful arts experiences is an essential element of healthy, thriving communities and to developing skilled, engaged, and empathetic students and adults. A direct recipient of impactful arts programming, Lindsey began her professional career as a paid summer intern at Starlight before serving as a consultant for nonprofit and corporate clients in events and fundraising in the Greater Kansas City region and across the country as part of Starlight’s subsidiary. Lindsey is the Immediate Past President for the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals; Secretary of the Centurions Alumni Board; a Vice President of the Board of Directors for Grace, a foundation dedicated to providing safe sober housing and normalizing recovery; and a past chair of Kansas City’s National Philanthropy Day. She is a 2017 graduate of the KC Chamber’s Centurions Leadership Program. She was named by the Kansas City Business Journal as one of “20 Nonprofit Leaders to Know” in 2022; one of In Kansas City Magazine's "Innovators and Influencers" in 2023; one of the Independent Magazine's "Rising Stars" in 2024; and one of the Kansas City Business Journal’s “NextGen Leaders” in 2024. She has appeared on several podcasts including “There’s Just Something about Kansas City,” “Speak with Presence,” “Show Me Today” and “KC Leaders.” Lindsey grew up in Kansas City and lives in the metro with her husband and son. She has three children - two grown stepdaughters and a very active high school sophomore who keeps her and her husband running with his active love of the theatre, music, debate, and Scouts.
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Jan 20, 2025 12:56 PM - 1:00 PM
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![]() Urban Hikes
Jan 24, 2025
Lisa Peña, founder of Urban Hikes Kansas Cit,y will be sharing about her time in the Peace Corps and how that experience gave her the skills to start her own business here in Kansas City in 2019. Ms. Peña will also share about where they go on their urban hikes, what they highlight and how Kansas City residents have embraced this new way to explore their own city.
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Lisa grew up in Kansas City, KS hiking through the woods behind her childhood home. She loves nature, while at the same time craving time in the city.
A former Peace Corps volunteer, avid hiker, backpacker and Christian, she loves to explore, internationally and locally. She sees beauty in the details all around us in Kansas City. Lisa started this business, inspired by Alex Kenin of Urban Hiker San Francisco. She loves to share her city with others and promises that you’ll experience parts of the city you haven’t seen before. Lisa speaks Spanish fluently, is a graduate of Sumner Academy and has her Masters of Public Administration from UMKC. |
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St. Lukes - BJC Merger and Future
Jan 31, 2025
Julie Quirin, FACHE, serves as president of BJC Health System's West Region, which serves the Kansas City area, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas and operates as Saint Luke's. In this role, Julie oversees day-to-day opereations for the region, including its acute care and critical access hospitals, ambulatory clinics and post-acutre care functions, Saint Luke's physician enterprise, hospital throughput, clinical hospital throughput, clinical nursing administration, government affairs team, and philanthropy.
In more than 25 years with Saint Luke's, Julie has served in numerous health systsem leadership roles, including senior vicepresident and chief oeprating officer of Saint Luke's Health System, senior vice president of hospital oeprations, CEO of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, senior vice president of continuum of care services, and president and CEO of Saint Luke's South Hospital.
She is past chair and board member of the Missouri Hospital Association and is a past chair of the United Way of Greater Kansas City. |
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Ecuador Mission Trip
Feb 07, 2025
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Feb 07, 2025 - Feb 14, 2025
Lock It for Love – February 7 and 14 The Justice Committee, under the leadership of Nancy Shawver and Darron Story, will again organize the Lock it for Love fundraiser. On February 7 and 14, club members will be asked to donate $7 in honor of someone they love, and those funds will purchase a gun lock. The club foundation will match the amount of funds donated. |
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Feb 07, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Vocational Service - First Fridays at Zhou B Art Center Join us for First Fridays at Zhou B Art Center (1801 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108) on Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5-8 p.m. Rotarians and their guests are invited on a self-guided tour of the new exhibition, Homage to the Hand, an exhibition that delves into the intimate relationship between creators and their materials. A cashless bar (bring a credit card) is available beginning at 5 p.m., and at 5:30 p.m., we will hear brief remarks from Allan Gray, Partner at Zhou B Art Center, and Izzy Vivas, Art Director. |
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Feb 10, 2025
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KC Reparations Coalition & Mayor's Task Force
Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 19, 2025
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UMKC Roo Athletics 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Dr. Brandon E. Martin began his tenure as Kansas City Athletics Director on December 3, 2018. Martin’s leadership has helped change the culture within Kansas City Athletics, as his positive energy, passion and strategic vision have helped elevate the Roos' momentum on-and-off the field. Martin has been a visionary, focused on comprehensive excellence. Since arriving in Kansas City, he has orchestrated the transformational changes below:
May 2020, Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal selected Dr. Martin as committee chair of UMKC Forward, a campus-wide Covid-19 strategic initiative aimed at re-envisioning UMKC regarding efficiency, growth, innovation and revenue-generation. As chair of the Community Outreach/Auxiliary/Events Committee, Martin assisted in identifying university-wide opportunities for innovation and investment that lead to revenue growth through auxiliary and external services to advance the mission of UMKC. |
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Feb 22, 2025 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kansas City PBS Event Details:
Kansas City PBS is proud to invite the community to its first-ever film festival dedicated to showcasing local Black filmmakers from Kansas City. The Reel Black Film Fest will take place on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m., at The Truman in downtown Kansas City.
The film festival will feature Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Nico Giles Wiggins, Jacob Handy and Kerry Rounds and their respective films: Land of Opportunity: The Road of Resistance: Inspired by Richard Rothstein’s ‘The Color of Law,’ this film focuses on Kansas City’s U.S. Highway 71 project and reveals how the city’s urban renewal efforts displaced 10,000 families. The Potato King: A Dynasty Built on Dirt and Dreams: Told from the perspective of local farmer Mike B. Rollen, this film tells the story of potato farmer Junius Groves and his pioneering journey to become one of the wealthiest men of his time. Diamond Jubilee: A 75-Year Celebration of Carter Broadcast: In 1950, Andrew “Skip” Carter began operating KPRS as the nation’s first Black radio station west of the Mississippi River. Seventy-five years later, the Kansas City radio station is still alive and well, celebrating its Diamond Jubilee anniversary.
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Feb 23, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:12 PM
Mapping InequalityPresented By Donna Rae PearsonFederal and state housing policies in the mid-20th century restricted financial resources to African Americans. In the wake of the Great Depression, the government made mortgages available to homeowners to stave off a foreclosure crisis and published color-coded maps identifying the loan worthiness of individual neighborhoods across the U.S. Those areas considered high-risk were shaded in red – referred to as redlining – disproportionately impacting communities of color and impeding Black residents from securing mortgage loans. Decades later, another historically discriminatory movement followed: urban renewal. Historian Donna Rae Pearson makes her second appearance at the Library, this time examining how these two programs propagated residential segregation and changed communities across the nation. She talks about the lingering negative impact of redlining and urban renewal on today’s communities. Pearson is curator at the Kansas State Historical Society. Through her consultation firm Kitchen Table History, she researches, develops, and presents historical scholarship on the Black experience in Kansas. |
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![]() Rotary in Cuba
Mar 07, 2025
Merna Gill Bio and Session Description Merna Gill has a Masters Degree in Education. Teaching HS Vocational Home Economics, then, Personal Finance and lastly a program called "Jobs for Americas Graduates". She still substitute teaches in Tulsa, Ok where she lives and mentors students all over the globe, thanks to Rotary. It was her love for students that inspired her to join Rotary to work with Interactors and Rotaractors but it was speaking to Rotary Clubs about her Cuba travels that opened her eyes to Rotary's many missions. Cuba actually brought Merna to Rotary. She's here today to share how Rotarians are working in Cuba today and the many efforts to re-establish Rotary there. Merna Gill 480-686-6503 |
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Mar 10, 2025
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Mar 19, 2025
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K.C. Municipal Court - Domestic Violence
Mar 21, 2025
Courtney graduated from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2001 with Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her law degree from the University of Kansas in 2004. Immediately following her graduation from law school Courtney accepted a position with the Missouri State Public Defender System. She left the public defender system in 2011 to begin serving as an assistant prosecuting attorney with the City of Kansas City. In January, 2015, Courtney was appointed by the Mayor Sly James and City Council to serve as Kansas City Municipal Court Judge in Division 203, which has primary jurisdiction over all domestic violence cases filed in municipal court. As part of her commitment to offender accountability and victim safety she initiated the compliance docket, a specialized supervised probation docket for high-risk domestic violence offenders. In October, 2017 the U.S. Department of Justice awarded the Kansas City Domestic Violence Docket a mentor court grant. The grant is used to instruct other courts from around the nation regarding best practices for offender accountability and victim safety. Kansas City is the first municipal court in the nation to receive this honor. In June, 2019, the domestic violence compliance docket developed a drug court track. This specialized, supervised docket addresses high risk domestic violence offenders with substance use disorders. The docket is designed to permit domestic violence offenders the therapeutic environment needed to recover from their substance use disorder while simultaneously holding them accountable for their battering behavior. Kansas City operates the second drug court program specifically for domestic violence offenders in the nation. In October, 2021 the U.S. Department of Justice awarded the Kansas City Municipal Court a $1 million grant for two early intervention domestic violence programs. The first is a class required as a condition of bond designed to increase domestic violence awareness with first time offenders. The second is a Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) docket that provides targeted services for young adult intimate partner violence offenders and their intimate partners. In September, 2022, Courtney was appointed as presiding judge of the Kansas City Municipal Court. Under her term as presiding judge the municipal court debuted it first ever evening and weekend dockets. Courtney is Past President of the board of directors for Sheffield Place and currently serves on their advisory board. She is an ex-officio member the board of directors for the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City. She is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. She is a mentor with the Association for Women Lawyers Foundation Denise Henning Connections Program. |
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![]() Improv
Mar 28, 2025
Hilari Holt is a Kansas City, Missouri born and raised actor, comedic performer, as well as the founder and Executive Director/Producer of Black Comedy Fest KC. She specializes in comedic improv performing, and is an instructor & coach. There are many facets to her interests and skills but performing & creating shows & events are at the top of the list. |