Joanne Grossi
May 14th @ 11AM

Ms. Joanne Grossi served for fives years as deputy secretary for health promotion and disease prevention at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, overseeing all of the state’s public health programs. Ms. Grossi earned her master’s degree in International Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University. She was appointed Regional 3 Director in the Obama Administration in 2010.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
May 11th @ 11AM

Hasan is an associate professor of African American history and holds a joint appointment with the Kirwan Institute and the Department of History. Dr. Jeffries specializes in twentieth century African American history and has an expertise in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. Dr Jeffries will discuss Race, Religion and Politics. He will also discuss why some groups use hyphen names (Asian-American, African-American, etc.) to define themselves.

Veteran Talk Show Host and Analyst
Jack W. Gravely is a veteran broadcaster with over 15 years of experience. From May 1983 to June 1987 Jack produced and aired a 90 second commentary on WRVA-AM radio twice weekly. In November 1989, CNN and Richmond’s NBC-TV affiliate retained Jack as an election night commentator and political analyst along with Dr. Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia to cover the historic election of L. Douglas Wilder as Governor of Virginia.
For five years, 1996-2002, Jack hosted an award winning 3-hour talk show in Richmond, Virginia on WRVA-AM. In April 1997, the Virginia Association of Broadcasters awarded the Metro Radio News Promotion Award to “The Jack Gravely Show”. One caller stated, “Jack’s show simply sizzled every Saturday night.” His guest, topics and interviews attracted calls and comments from St. Louis to Canada to Louisville.
Mr. Gravely has been a guest on the Today Show, Nightline, Crossfire, Good Morning America, The Bill Moyer’s Journal, The Tony Brown Show, C-Span, CBS Morning News, and the Bev Smith Show. He was a frequent quest panelist on local public affairs shows across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Hipolito Acosta
Border Patrol Officer
May 10th @ 10AM

Hipolito Acosta Legendary Border Patrol officer Hipolito Acosta always got his man. But in his memoir, the complexities of life along the Rio Grande remain elusive by David Romo. The Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates, by Hipolito Acosta, Lisa Pulitzer. Hipolito Acosta is the most highly decorated officer in the history of the U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Service. The son of Mexican-American migrant workers, Acosta rose through the ranks from Border Patrol Agent to a key position in the Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Molly Michelmore
Washington and Lee University
April 26th @ 10AM

Dr. Molly Michelmore, Assistant Professor of History, Washington and Lee University. Tax and Spend The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism "A powerful analysis of the way the language of taxes and rights shapes the modern welfare state. Tax and Spend makes a significant argument about the nature of postwar liberalism through an examination of issues that have generally not been treated together."—Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

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