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SwellSpark
Jan 15, 2021
Matt Baysinger is the CEO of Swell Spark, an entertainment company operating brands including Breakout KC escape rooms, Blade & Timber axe throwing, and Sinkers Lounge, a mini golf bar opening in 2021. Matt graduated from The University of Kansas with a B.S. in Sociology and a MSE in Higher Education. After college, Baysinger worked for the NCAA and helped create the Big 12 Leadership Summit, an annual leadership conference for student athletes. Baysinger went on to design a college guidance program while serving as the Director of College Guidance at St. James Academy in Lenexa, Kansas. He spent summers developing an award-winning film studio, Baysinger Films, named “Best in Kansas City” for five consecutive years. Baysinger continued building businesses by co-founding and growing a top-rated soda shop, Mass Street Soda, which carries more varieties of soda than any other location in the world. In 2015, Baysinger co-founded Breakout KC, the only escape room in the U.S. to be ranked in the top five by both TripAdvisor and USA Today. The creation of Breakout KC was the beginning of Swell Spark’s growth as an industry leader in interactive entertainment, headquartered in Kansas City. Over the last five years, Baysinger led his team to open 13 entertainment locations across the country, with a mission to bring people together through shared experiences. Baysinger has been recognized as one of Kansas City’s NextGen Leaders, Ingram’s 50 Kansans You Should Know and The Business Journal’s Rising Stars, spotlighting 100 people nationwide who are impacting their communities. Baysinger lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his beautiful wife, Emily, and three children. |
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State of Missouri Assistant Attorney General
Jan 22, 2021
Sarah Jones is an attorney in Kansas City. Currently, she works for Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt as an Assistant Attorney General for Special Litigation. She is a member of the office’s Human Trafficking Taskforce and is the lead attorney for the Hope Initiative, a creative policy endeavor seeking to irradiate human trafficking in the state. Sarah is an alumna of Saint Louis University School of Law and Rockhurst University. Before law school, she worked as a program manager at a tax policy and good government think tank in New York City and, in 2015, served as Quinton Lucas’s Campaign Manager. Sarah lives in the Waldo neighborhood of Kansas City with her dog, Hamilton. |
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By Focusing on Families, We Strengthen Communities
Feb 05, 2021
Tina Hissong is the Director of Gift Planning with Great Circle, a children and family focused mental health organization. She has a been a nonprofit professional for more than 15 years with health care and conservation-based organizations and has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and a master’s degree in Business Administration. When she is not advancing mental health initiatives, Tina is an avid hiker, cook, gardener and enjoys boxing for fun and fitness. She has three children with her son currently serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Feb 05, 2021 5:00 PM
Meeting ID: 811 0704 6164 Passcode: 369563 Phone: 13126266799,,81107046164#,,,,*369563# US (Chicago) |
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Feb 09, 2021 12:00 PM
Regular monthly Justice Committee meeting. Join us: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/7897249795 |
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Feb 10, 2021 6:30 PM
Part 2 of our Justice Committee discussion on Caste. Join our Zoom meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89437213360?pwd=ZG4raTRjZUpZN1FIVWhMbG9SaWFldz09 |
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Feb 15, 2021 6:00 PM
Martin Luther King Conference at UMKC features Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an AntiRacist, among others. Virtual conference is free but requires registration: https://info.umkc.edu/diversity/events-programs/martin-luther-king-jr-lecture-series/ |
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Feb 16, 2021 9:30 AM
Board of Police Commissioners monthly meeting. Check website for details (to see if meeting will be help in person or online only). |
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Feb 18, 2021 7:00 PM
Isabel Wilkerson: Virtual talk via Kansas City Public Library (free). Register: https://kckpl.librarymarket.com/events/isabel-wilkerson |
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Feb 19, 2021
Bob Kendrick was named President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in March 2011 His appointment marked a celebrated return to the NLBM after a 13-month departure. Kendrick became the museum’s first Director of Marketing in 1998 and was named Vice President of Marketing in 2009 before accepting the post as Executive Director of the National Sports Center for the Disabled-Kansas City in 2010. In his role at the NLBM, Kendrick is responsible for the museum’s day-to-day operations and the development and implementation of strategies to advance the mission of the 501 c3, not-for-profit organization. Since rejoining the NLBM in 2011, he has helped orchestrate a more than $10 million turnaround that has helped the NLBM regain its vitality and financial stability.
Kendrick began his association with the NLBM as a volunteer during his 10-year newspaper career with The Kansas City Star. As senior copywriter for The Star’s Promotions Department, he won, or was part of a creative team that won, numerous local and regional advertising and marketing awards. He developed the advertising concept and campaign that helped attract more 10,000 people (in less than 30 days) to see the debut of the Museum’s first traveling exhibit in the summer of 1993. The success of that promotion led to an appointment to the museum’s Board of Directors in the fall of ‘93. In his nearly five years on the Museum’s board, Kendrick served as Secretary/Treasurer and chaired the Membership and Event Planning committees. He was co-chairman of the Museum’s grand-opening gala celebration that attracted nearly 2,000 people to Bartle Hall in November of 1997. The event raised more than $500,000 in support of the NLBM. Kendrick has been responsible for the creation of several signature museum educational programs and events including the Hall of Game which annually honors former Major League Baseball greats who played the game in the spirit and signature style of the Negro Leagues. And while he doesn’t fashion himself to be a historian, Kendrick has become one of the leading authorities on the topic of Negro Leagues Baseball history and its connection to issues relating to sports, race and diversity. He has been a contributing writer for “Ebony Magazine” and the national Urban League’s “Opportunity Magazine.” In 2006, the Greater Kansas City Black Chamber of Commerce awarded him the Mary Lona Diversity Award and he was named “Citizen of the Year” by the Omicron Xi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. In 2009, The Kansas City Globe named Kendrick to the paper’s list of “100 Most Influential African-Americans in Greater Kansas City.” In January 2014, Kendrick was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. A native of Crawfordville, Ga., Kendrick received a basketball scholarship to attend Park College (Parkville, Mo.) in 1980 and earned a B.A. degree in Communications Arts in 1985. |
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Feb 26, 2021
Tucker Trotter is an owner and CEO of Dimensional Innovations (DI), an Experience Design, Build and Technology firm based in Overland Park, Kansas, with offices around the US. Committed to creativity and excellence, he has been one of the driving forces behind the company’s dramatically expanded capabilities, transforming Dimensional Innovations into a recognized, respected and unrivaled industry powerhouse. DI is nationally recognized and has been featured in Fortune, Inc. Magazine, USA Today and more. The company has also been named to the Inc. 5000, a list of the country’s fastest-growing companies, for six consecutive years.
As a college student studying Industrial Design, Tucker joined Dimensional Innovations (then Schofield Design) as a summer intern. He now proudly serves DI as the CEO where he focuses his energy on creating a strong culture, a clear vision for the future and spreading awareness about DI’s amazing team and capabilities. DI exists to create remarkable experiences, with local work including the library books gracing the Kansas City Library parking garage, the Royals’ Hall of Fame, Arrowhead Stadium, Children’s Mercy, Liberty Memorial, and numerous corporate headquarters. DI’s portfolio encompasses NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA, along with major installations in museums, hall of fames, entertainment districts across the country and well over 500 cinemas around the world. DI has also launched many new services and products in numerous other markets while also helping launch other companies like Shield Casework, an organization creating medical- and sports-focused casework and furniture; Rockbox, a video content business; and DI Build, a woman-owned construction company. Tucker is committed to entrepreneurship and our community, proudly establishing the Dimensional Innovations Foundation, an employee-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit. He is a founding partner in the Parade of Hearts; Vice-Chair for the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Architecture and Design and founding donor to the Center for Design Research at the University of Kansas; Boy Scouts of America, Heart of America Council Board of Directors; Trustee of the Fredrick J. McCoy Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic at Children’s Mercy Hospital; member of the University of Kansas Health System Advancement; and past Honorary Co-Chair of Red Hot Nights for Children’s Mercy Hospital. He also holds positions on For-Profit boards including Shield Casework, DI Build and Cogent, Inc. Tucker lives in Leawood with his wife, Mandi, and three kids, Drew, Mae and Lucy. He loves cycling and gravel endurance rides and traveling with his family. |
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Mar 04, 2021 8:00 AM
Open Justice Committee discussion with Lora McDonald, executive director of MORE2 (Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity). Come to learn about the MORE2 mission and activities, ask questions. Let us see if there are opportunities to work together. Join Zoom meeting: |
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Mar 05, 2021
Gregg Lombardi is the Executive Director for Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City. With this organization, he has worked closely with over 40 collaborating organizations to help create, and serves as Project Manager for, the Lykins Focused Community Project, in which the Lykins Neighborhood Association, is the Master Developer for community development in a 9 block focus area selected by the neighborhood. In the project, the neighborhood has awarded development rights to more than 20 rehabbers and builders to develop more than 40 blighted properties in the focus area. Gregg is a 1982 graduate of Yale, receiving his B.A. in Philosophy, has received numerous awards and recognitions and also had a cameo appearance as opposing counsel to Paul Newman in the Academy Award nominated movie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge. Gregg is happily married to his wife Beth, with two fantastic kids, Luke and Will. |
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Mar 06, 2021 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for a driving tour that takes us on a journey through the city and the history of segregation in the Kansas City Metro. The tour takes about 1 ½ hours starting in the north parking lot of Shawnee Mission East High School 7500 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208 and ends at the Linwood YMCA/James B. Nutter, Sr. Community Center 3800 Linwood Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64128.
Before starting the tour, you will want to download the VoiceMap app. Attached is the website that gives a description of the driving tour as well as the link to download the app. https://www.jocolibrary.org/our-stories/history-segregation-kansas-city
Please RSVP Eric Wymore at eric.wymore@metcalfpartners.com if you plan on attending. Depending on each person’s comfort level, let Eric know if you are willing to chauffeur other masked up attendees. eMoney |
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Mar 10, 2021 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Regular monthly meeting of the Justice Committee. All are invited to join the virtual meeting. https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/1499208118 Or iPhone one-tap : 816-918-2728 if you are having connection problems
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Mar 18, 2021 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the bestsellers Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns. The Plaza Rotary Club's Justice Commitee's book club recently read Caste and has held a series of discussions about the book. This virtual lecture is free but reservations are required. Register at info.umkc.edu/cockefair/whats-new or by phone at 816-235-1563.
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Rotary Public Image
Mar 19, 2021
Kirby Asplund is the Rotary District 6040 Public Image chair, and a past-president of the Rotary Club of Lee’s Summit. He’s been involved in advertising, marketing and communications for his entire career, including 18 years as a senior marketing director with Penton Media, the nation’s largest business to business media information company. He has an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management. |
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Kansas City SmartPort, Inc
Apr 02, 2021
Chris Gutierrez is the President of Kansas City SmartPort, Inc., a non-profit economic development organization that works to attract freight-based companies, such as manufacturing, distribution and warehouses, to the 18 county, bi-state Kansas City region. SmartPort is an affiliated group of the Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC). Chris has been active in logistics and international business for more than thirty years. He has worked in the public and private sector in economic development, international business and logistics. Chris’ community involvement includes his positions as a board member of the following organizations: Board of Advisors of the University of Kansas Supply Chain Management Program, CSCMP, Mid-America District Export Council, Kansas State MBA Program, World Trade Center – Kansas City and Board of Advisors for People to People International. He is also alumni of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions. |
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Apr 08, 2021 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Free Online Event Featuring
Yanira Merino Host – Chris Hernandez
Yanira Merino is the national president of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, which represents the interests of approximately 2 million Latino(a) trade unionists throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Merino is a veteran labor and immigration rights leader and advocate. In August 2018 during LCLAA’s 22 Convention, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she was elected as president of this organization that aims at providing a voice for Latino working families nationally by coordinating labor policy on immigration, as well as other issues that are critical to Latin Americans across the United States.
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vfuGgrTkqHtfNALfPaeNesefPIRP0LtcW
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Apr 14, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A Conversation on Race, hosted by the Dole Institute, this event features Bob Kendrick, executive director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, on Baseball: The Color Barrier. This event will be broadcast on the Dole Institute's YouTube channel, free. Find the link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75noRaW89Es or from the Dole Institute event page: https://doleinstitute.org/event/a-conversation-on-race-part-iii-baseball-the-color-barrier/ The third installment of the series “A Conversation on Race” will feature the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Bob Kendrick and will be moderated by Senior Associate Director of the Institute, Dr. Barbara W. Ballard. “Since the founding of the first professional baseball league in this country, racism has been a persistent problem,” said Director Bill Lacy. “For the third episode of ‘A Conversation on Race,’ we will discuss the color barrier in baseball and the courageous men who broke through. Bob Kendrick is the ideal guest to explore this topic and we look forward to what will be a fascinating and insightful evening.” The program will explore the factors that made Major League Baseball a flashpoint for civil rights in 1947, more than a decade before the marches and rallies of the 1960s. The event streams the day before Jackie Robinson Day, in which all Major League Baseball players wear jerseys with his number “42.” This program will discuss the man who became the focus of a nation as he walked on the field as the first professional black athlete in the U.S. to shatter the color barrier. Bob Kendrick was named President of the NLBM in March of 2011. Kendrick has been responsible for the creation of several signature museum educational programs and events including the Hall of Game, which annually honors former MLB greats who played the game in the spirit and signature style of the Negro Leagues. Kendrick has become one of the leading authorities on the topic of Negro Leagues Baseball history and its connection to issues relating to sports, race, and diversity. Submit your questions for Mr. Kendrick to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program.
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Apr 27, 2021 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Free and public online lecture and live Q&A session with Bryan Stevenson, Hosted by the UMKC Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair, The Community Remembrance Project-MO, and The Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey. Free but registration required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. REGISTER: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1236/16/index.aspx?sid=1236&gid=1&pgid=4174&cid=7961 s a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer dedicated to providing help to the poor, incarcerated and condemned.
As founder and executive director of the Montgomery, Alabama, based human rights organization, the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.
His organization has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He and his staff have won reversals, relief and release from prison for more than 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.
Stevenson also launched major new anti-poverty, anti-discrimination efforts challenging inequality in America through the creation of two acclaimed cultural sites: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. |
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Apr 28, 2021 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
John Kerrigan, Ph.D., Rockhurst University professor of English, will facilitate a live book discussion about Eddie Glaude Jr.'s biography Begin Again—James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (2020). Space is limited for the FREE live discussion and you must register in advance using the RSVP button below to participate. A limited number of FREE copies of this book are available while supplies last. Learn more or REGISTER. A New York Times Bestseller and Washington Post and Time Magazine Book of the Year for 2020, Begin Againblends biography, history, literary criticism, and memoir with incisive analysis of our current cultural moment. This online event is presented in partnership with Rockhurst University Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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Kansas University - Update on COVID-19
May 07, 2021
My research involves a coronavirus protein called a “macrodomain”. I do wish to talk for about 1/3 of the time about our efforts to develop novel inhibitors of this protein that could potentially be used therapeutically. I think it would be interesting for your group to see at a basic level all of what happens in early stage drug development (and I mean very early). The other 2/3s will be related to the Stowers talks you reference below, albeit with my own take on the outbreak as it stands now. #1. Chief Science Officer at Stowers Institute in March reviewed the structure of the virus and the nature of the vaccines in emergency use. We all are well familiar with the spike protein which is a point of attack but our knowledge of the inside of the nucleus may be a bit sketchy. That’s where variants may be found. https://corporate.americancentury.com/content/corporate/en/insights/articles/news-insights/covid19-today-new-variants-vaccines.html The first 20 minutes is the virus structure, the second the nature of the vaccines in use. Vocabulary is ‘friendly’. #2. Prof Fehr spoke at a virtual COVID conference sponsored by Columbia University to sophisticated audience. https://research.columbia.edu/covid/symposia-archive/november4-fehr Therein was mentioned the protein called a ‘macrodomain’, a structure possessed by corona and several other viruses. Even if life sciences are as far from your experience as from mine, one can sense the complexity of the path which the researcher treads. The QnA from other researchers enhances the perspective. Then Tony can give us the Cliff Notes version. |
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May 11, 2021 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Community Conversations-Turning the Page | May 11| 12:00–12:50 p.m. During this series, Dr. Kristina Bridges we will leading a conversation about the book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum. Please note, everyone is welcome. You are not required to have read the chapters or book prior to joining the session. Free Zoom discussion, details at https://www.kumc.edu/events-calendar.html?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150415593
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Heartland Chamber Music
May 14, 2021
Kathy Cook is the Executive Director of Heartland Chamber Music an organization which connects, engages and inspires students through a lifetime of music education and performance. Prior to joining Heartland Chamber Music, Kathy spent years advocating for equity in funding for public schools and was inspired to join Heartland to work on the quest for equity in music education through Heartland's String Sprouts program bringing instruments and free music education to children ages 3-8 in under resourced areas in Kansas City. |
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May 18, 2021 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will meet in ZOOM conversation with Julián Zugazagoitia Director and CEO of the Nelson Museum of Art.
Join us for this special virtual opportunity exploring Secretary Bunch’s idea that “museums should not be community centers, but should be at the center of their communities.”
The conversation will address current issues including how museums set and fulfill goals around social justice, as well as how art and history help us understand our place in the world.
EVENT IS FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED: To RSVP, please call 816.751.1278 or email 1art@nelson-atkins.org. You will receive the Zoom link after you are registered.
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May 25, 2021 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join our Zoom discussion with Pastor Miles of the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, in Kansas City. This conversation will explore a variety of topics, including exploration of potential ways we can work together to support justice in our community. Join us by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87963593658?pwd=dDlMajRoMHFzNHk0UEVFU2tNZUpXUT09 Questions? Reach out to Nancy (nancy@nancyshawver.com)
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Mrs. Kansas 2019 and Kansas Agriculture Advocate
Jun 11, 2021
MRS. KANSAS UNITED STATES - 2019 Randi Cole After losing the ability to hear in her left ear, Randi became heavily involved with The Hearing Charities of America. Along with educating the public about hearing loss and prevention, they collect used hearing aids and refurbish them to give to those less fortunate. Randi is the current 2021 Kansas Ms.United States Agriculture and will compete for the national title next weekend in Orlando, FL. She is an insurance crop adjuster with Hudson by day and an advocate for Kansas Agriculture and farmers and other causes by night. |
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Grata Development - New Trails
Jun 18, 2021
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Jun 22, 2021 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Implicit bias is part of being human and our species could not have survived without developing biases. Research has discovered that despite our best intentions we have deep seated resistance to the differences of others. Implicit biases can take the form of race, gender, physical appearance, personality type or sexual orientation. Recognizing, overcoming, and learning to avoid implicit biases in business interactions is essential to creating a strong and diverse workforce. Join the KC Chamber and Henry E. Lyons, an implicit bias counselor, to learn the four steps people and businesses should take to manage unconscious biases. Free virtual conference. Registration required: https://membership.kcchamber.com/events/details/diversity-inclusion-workshop-series-overcoming-unconscious-bias-12135 |
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