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2020 Annual Report 2 A MESSAGE FROM JEFFERSON PRESIDENT FERATI Dear Jefferson Supporters, s we head into a new year and a new decade, two words come to mind: AThank you. Without you, we could not do the work we do at the Jefferson. In 2019, that meant hosting more than 100 events at our headquarters at 32nd and State streets and at three offsite locations in Corry, Edinboro, and Fairview, where we launched our satellite programming (this year we have added North East). In 2019, that also meant producing two essays, two editions of the Journal of Erie Studies, and four of our new Jefferson Reports on timely issues – Erie’s reconnection with Zibo, China; updating the algal bloom threat, marking the first time a Global Summit speaker also contributed a written report; turning the focus to Erie’s food deserts; and outlining the real threat of losing minor league baseball. In 2019, our Global Summit speaker series also presented some of the nation’s greatest researchers and thinkers on cutting-edge topics, such as Jefferson President Dr. Ferki Ferati extraterrestrial life as seen through the eyes of Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, or an examination of today’s divided politics with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will. We were able to do this work because of your support. It’s that simple. Similarly, we are a nonpartisan organization, in thought and in action, because we know that is the best way for our community to achieve progress. The Jefferson continues to strive to be a center of learning, where critical issues are openly presented and discussed. We seek light, not heat, in the debate TABLE OF CONTENTS and discussion of issues that are important to all of us. Again, your support, by A Message from Jefferson President attending our events and by reading our publications, makes this possible. Dr. Ferki Ferati ................................................................ 2 The Jefferson’s Impact ................................................ 3 While we are proud to offer 10 times the amount of programming than when we Jefferson Satellites and began in 2008, your support has also made it possible to offer our events free to Scholars-in-Residence ................................................ 7 all students and people who seek tuition waivers because of financial burden. Jefferson Membership and Growth .................... 8 Community Support .................................................... 9 So, thank you, Jefferson supporters. We are grateful. We also ask you to join us Global Summit XI Speaker Series ........................12 once again in 2020 as we enter our 12th year and a new decade. The Jefferson Global Summit XI High Points ...............................13 has exciting plans, and we need your help and involvement. With your support, Cultivating Civic Engagement ..............................14 we know we can continue to impact our community in lasting ways. Leadership Academy and Raimy Fellowship Program .....................................15 Sincerely, A Message from Charles Brock and Brock Institute for Mega Issues ...........................16 JES Programming ........................................................18 JES Publications ...........................................................20 Board of Trustees ........................................................21 Ferki Ferati, Ed.D. Message from Jefferson Chairwoman Joyce Savocchio ...........................................................21 President JES Personnel ................................................................22 JES Financial Picture ..................................................23 THE JEFFERSON’S IMPACT 3 The Jefferson’s Impact Informing a Community that Learns Together 2020: We find ourselves equidistant as a platform to evaluate and measure from the turn of the millennium and 2040. progress. We also find ourselves at the closing of While the Jefferson offers programming one decade – the second of our second year-round, drawing from the expertise millennium – and the start of a new one. of local scholars, the Global Summit As we reach these milestones, it is worth remains a hallmark for the Jefferson, and reflecting on the Jefferson’s first decade often what we hear folks recognize the to explore how the region’s think tank institution the most for. So it comes as for community progress is continuing no surprise that the big ideas present at onward. the Summit captivated local crowds and Chiefly, since its launch in 2008, the spurred local reflection and discussion to Jefferson has served the region as a beget homegrown action. platform to discuss ideas. A place to From E.J. Dionne headlining the first examine the past, study the present, and Global Summit, to Paul Kennedy explore the future, the Jefferson has key presenting at the second installment, at its core – and in our tagline – the ideal from Francis Fukuyama and Alice Rivlin at of “Community Progress.” Global Summit III, to Karl Rove and David Brooks the next year, from Bill Kristol and Over the past 10 years, it has Harry Markopolos to Sister Joan Chittister, become common throughout the Laura Bush, Michele Ridge, Bruce Katz, Erie community to hear the words: Cokie Roberts, Doris Kearns Goodwin, “I heard it at the Jefferson.” Governors Tom Ridge and Tom Wolf, Dr. Avi Loeb, Harvard astronomer and academician The Jefferson began by focusing on Philip Rucker, Douglas Brinkley, Michael Harvard astronomer and academician themes vital to the civic cultivation of Eric Dyson, Elise Jordan, Howard Dean, who posed whether we are alone in the the community. From examining the James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, universe. Several others delighted and Founding Fathers and Mothers and their David Ignatius, and so many others in the informed Jefferson audiences, such as impact on democracy, to the birth of years to follow, the Global Summit imports historian Edna Greene Medford, algal modern democracy and Roman history, ideas to Erie, Pennsylvania and draws bloom expert Patricia Glibert, economic the Jefferson curriculum focused on the regional crowds to what has become the conservative Nile Gardiner, former ideas that have shaped us. largest and most esteemed speaker series in the area. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer But issues of the now also found space and former Senator and U.S. Defense This year for Global Summit XI, from the for discussion at the Jefferson, as the Secretary Chuck Hagel. An added think tank team evolved its educational media, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated offerings. From discussions of community columnist and author George Will spoke planning, dating back to 2010 when Senior to a packed Hammermill Center at Vice President of the Greater Austin Gannon University. Other news veterans Chamber of Commerce Dave Porter came – such as Susan Page, Karen Tumulty, to Erie for the second Global Summit to and Michael Smerconish – were among examine “Regional Reinvention,” to the this year’s attendees, as well as two rising surge of community plans, ranging from media stars: Mary Katharine Ham and Emerge 2040 to Erie Refocused and Alexi McCammond. beyond through the five years to follow, While we have branded the Summit as a as the Jefferson hosted various programs global experience – bringing renowned to explore regional and local planning and speakers to present on national and progress, the Jefferson has provided the international ideas and trends – we went testbed to explore the future and served interstellar in 2019 with Avi Loeb, the Columnist and Media Personality Michael Smerconish 4 THE JEFFERSON’S IMPACT the Jefferson’s mission is to bring ideas to Erie. What’s more, for many Global Summit presenters, getting an invitation from the Jefferson brings them to northwestern Pennsylvania for the first time. While audiences have the opportunity to learn from them, the presenters have the opportunity to get to know Erie. From mentions in the Washington Post thanks to David Ignatius, shout outs on SiriusXM Dr. Ferki Ferati, Ben Speggen, and Colleen Dougherty thanks to Michael Smerconish, to ongoing meet the C-SPAN visitors. coverage in The Atlantic thanks to James and Deborah Fallows, the Jefferson bonus was the addition of one of Erie’s continues to help get the word out about favorite sons, Tom Ridge, and Brookings Erie. Institution Senior Fellow Camille Busette. The Summit drew to a close with Erie’s But as important as helping to broadcast own Eleanor Smeal, co-founder of the Erie’s story is, ensuring the intellectual Feminist Majority Foundation and a welfare of the community remains vibrant women’s rights hero, who returned home is vital to our venture at the Jefferson. Tom Ridge, left, and Chuck Hagel respond to questions. to accept the Jefferson’s highest honor, When the Jefferson first opened its the Thomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award. We doors in 2008, our events drew an with our membership and donor base were also happy to welcome back Summit average attendance of 12. But for the beginning in 2011 at 91 and growing to Chairman Steve Scully, a senior executive past eight years, average attendance has 869 in less than 10 years. producer and editor at C-SPAN. consistently been more than 100. It’s also becoming more common But no matter the size of the audience, The continued success of the Jefferson’s to hear: “I read it, thanks to the the mission has remained the same: Global Summit demonstrates the Jefferson.” community’s hunger to learn. Too, it Stimulate community progress through continues to prove that Erieites far and education and research
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