by John Kaminski, Adriana Brook | Mar 5, 2021 | Videos
The concept of democracy is constantly evolving. The framers of the U.S. Constitution had surprisingly diverse visions for American democracy, and found inspiration in multiple sources, including classical scholars from ancient Greece and the Roman Republic and the...
by Richard Monette, Rebecca Webster, Margaret Ann Noodin | Feb 11, 2021 | Videos
Democracy flourished on the North American continent well before any of the American founding fathers were born. Around 800 CE, the Three Fires Confederacy of the Anishinaabe and, later, between 1450 and 1660 CE, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were established as...
by Brenda Coley, Kirsten Shead | Dec 16, 2020 | Videos
The final of three online breakfast presentations featured Kirsten Shead and Brenda Coley, Co-Executive Directors of Milwaukee Water Commons. The two spoke about their mission-driven work to help catalyze Milwaukee as a true model Water City—a place where all...
by Tom Boldt, Jeffrey Thompson | Nov 18, 2020 | Videos
For the opening session of the Academy’s Wisconsin Business Roundtable on Climate Change, Tom Boldt, CEO of The Boldt Company, and Jeff Thompson, CEO Emeritus of Gundersen Health Systems, discuss how to lead through bold innovation. On November 18, 2020,...
by August Marie Ball, Kari Grasee, Kathy Jankowski, Kathleen McGinty | Nov 18, 2020 | Videos
The Way Forward panel including; August Ball (CEO and Founder of Cream City Conservation & Consulting LLC), Kari Grasee (Vice President of Business Workplace Services of American Family Insurance), Kathy Jankowski (President and CEO of Evergreen Credit Union). and...
by Gillian Nevers | Oct 29, 2020 | Videos
Gillian Nevers reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. This Facebook Live reading series is part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters and our Wisconsin People &...
