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United Tonight Speaker Series

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On The Sound of Ideas, we’ll highlight a new four-part speaker series from United Way’s young leaders group that aims to highlight human perseverance in the face of adversity. The first conversation, happening on Tuesday, March 26 th, is about surviving foster care, discrimination, and youth homelessness. We’ll hear from a woman who overcame incredible adversity navigating the foster care system and homelessness.

 

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United Tonight Speaker Series

DATE: Tuesday, March 26, 2019

LOCATION: Market Garden Brewery 

Time: 5:30-7:00 

TOPIC: Surviving Youth Homelessness

-Sonia Emerson, Project Coordinator, Kinnect 

-Kate Lodge, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Executive Director of A Place 4 Me, YWCA

-Ellie Turan, Associate Director of Community Campaigns, United Way of Greater Cleveland

Rachel is the supervising producer for Ideastream Public Media’s morning public affairs show, the “Sound of Ideas.”