Video Archives
Chautauqua Women’s Club
Summer 2024 Contemporary Issues Forum
Visit the Chautauqua Women’s Club YouTube channel to view our 2024 Contemporary Issues Forum Lectures!
Week 2 – June 29
Edward Humes, Author & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
“Want to Save the World? Start By Being Less Trashy!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBXfXDHXW6g
Week 3 – July 6
Dr. Cady Coleman, Former NASA Astronaut and Air Force Colonel (ret) USAF
“Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmonjrm5CM0
Week 4 – July 13
Sylvia Farbstein, Speaker, Writer, Advocate
“How to Embrace Uncertainty in All Seasons of Life: A Journey of Shattering Barriers to Boundless Opportunities”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyJhc4-GNw
Week 5 – July 20
Sarah Gamble, Architect + Assistant Professor, University of Florida School of Architecture
“Environmental Activism: Opportunities for Architects and the Public to Engage in the Climate Crisis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaxUuyDSLvA
Week 6 – July 27
Dr. Andrew Meier, Best Selling Author, Biographer, Journalist
“MORGENTHAU: The making of a dynasty — and an epic”
Week 7 – August 3
Amy E. Herman, J.D., MA, President, The Art of Perception, Best Selling Author
“The Art of Perception: Seeing What Matters”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRUEOLN57Q
Week 8 – August 10
Berwood Yost, Director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College
“The Tipping Point State: Public Opinion and Political Preferences in Battleground Pennsylvania”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKcIkMGHsY
Week 9 – August 17
Robin Radin, International lawyer and the book editor of Mao’s Hijacked Generation
“Mao’s Hijacked Generation: What Can We Learn?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLp8fkfsFg
Chautauqua Women’s Club
Summer 2023 Contemporary Issues Forum
Visit the Chautauqua Women’s Club YouTube channel to view our 2023 Contemporary Issues Forum Lectures!
Week 2 – July 1
Melina Davis, MBA, Chief Executive Officer & EVP, Medical Society of Virginia
“HOW TO SAVE A LIFE: Leading the Revolution to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System”
https://youtu.be/tgwA0Q_jx5E?si=eRsW8djepFQ-HOeT
Week 3 – July 8
Scarlett Lewis, Sandy Hook, Founder Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement
“Choose Love Movement: Be Part of the Solution”
https://youtu.be/iZrTWp5xmUk?si=XF7GD_usXxv4KpnN
Week 4 – July 15
Kris Putnam-Walkerly, MSW, Global Philanthropy Advisor, President, Putnam Consulting Group
“Unlocking the Secrets of Effective Giving: Avoiding Delusional Altruism in Philanthropy”
https://youtu.be/DL3MQfJPVKg?si=Xez70lgIBo81SENY
Week 5 – July 22
Gretchen Morgenson, Senior Financial Report, NBC News Investigations (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
“Plunder in Plain Sight: How America is Being Savaged by Financial Elites”
https://youtu.be/YXFEjBjaH2k?si=-4G-NiLJZ7tjWCvz
Week 6 – July 29
Phyllis Biffle-Elmore, Author
“Stories From The Quilt Of Souls”
https://youtu.be/QA6mUnfdmSs?si=WE-Wgk5_avD14ePp
Week 7 – August 5
Jeff Gallagher, Emeritus Executive Director, Alliance for Building Better Medicine
“Fixing the broken supply chain of quality affordable medicines in the US and World”
https://youtu.be/b-RdJfroi28?si=c0Zu3NfkjZD9Nvgs
Week 9 – August 19
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
“A New Social Compact to Achieve Optimal Health for All”
https://youtu.be/7OGws1n63sk?si=nfMmiT3A5akG6Zqk
Chautauqua Women’s Club
Summer 2022 Contemporary Issues Forum
Visit the Chautauqua Women’s Club YouTube channel to view our 2022 Contemporary Issues Forum Lectures!
Week 2 – July 2
Joan Garry, Author, Non-Profit Leadership Expert
“ADVOCATE: NOUN, VERB, YOU!”
https://youtu.be/sCdkDwErrDM
Week 3 – July 9
Candace Fleming, Author
“Eleanor Roosevelt: An Emblem of Hope”
https://youtu.be/OB7E2mMmsxg
Week 4 – July 16
Jonas Johnson, MD, FACS, Professor & Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
“Survivorship”
https://youtu.be/69VzW9oqa3w
Week 5 – July 23
Ann E. Rondeau, Ed.D, President of the Naval Postgraduate School; Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
“Technological Leadership: Combining Research and Education for Advantage at Sea”
https://youtu.be/sBgs9l7Ho6A?si=XIS-Rj_NjbDFwFhE
Week 6 – July 30
Sean McFate, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Professor at Georgetown and Syracuse
“The Sneaky War: Russia, China, the U.S. and the Emerging Strategic Paradigm”
https://youtu.be/CnSqEyiYZEA
Week 7 – August 6
Jason Wild, President and Chief Investment Officer of JW Asset Management; Executive Chairman of TerrAscend
“Cannabis: Illegal to Essential. The Evolution of the Plant’s Perception and the Opportunities Ahead”
https://youtu.be/DzJ88Z_YI88
Week 9 – August 20
Doyle Stevick, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Anne Frank Center; Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
“Anne Frank and the Struggle for ‘Never Again’”
https://youtu.be/uGz7bangq_g
Chautauqua Women’s Club
Summer 2021 Contemporary Issues Forum
Week 2 – July 8
Simone Boyce, Emmy-Nominated News Reporter, Anchor, Producer and Host
“My Ancestors’ Wildest Dream: Tracing My Roots All the Way to the Chautauqua Institution”
Week 3 – July 15
Gretchen Morgenson, Senior Financial Reporter, Investigations Unit NBC News (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
“The Hidden Force Driving the Wealth Gap in America”
Week 5 – July 29
Katie Carpenter, Award-Winning Environmental Documentary Filmmaker and Resilience Communicator
“Walking with Elephants”
Chautauqua Women’s Club
Summer 2020 Contemporary Issues Forum
Week 2 – July 7
Megan Smith, Entrepreneur, Engineer, CEO shift7, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Former Vice President Google
“20for2020: The (Inclusive) Future of Innovation, Work, Artificial Intelligence, Living Planet, and Democracy #CollectiveGenius”
Week 3 – July 14
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, one of the world’s leading gender-balance consultancies
“Four Phases of Women’s (and a Growing Number of Men’s) Career Cycles”
Week 5 – July 28
Kathleen C. Hochul, Lieutenant Governor, State of New York; Chair, NYS
“Equal Rights Now: The Fight for Equality 100 Years Later”
Week 6 – August 4
Leslie Przybylek, Senior Curator, Senator John Heinz History Center in association with the Smithsonian Institution
“A Woman’s Place IS IN THE Exhibition”
Week 7 – August 11
Beth Fouhy, Senior Politics Editor, NBC News and MSNBC
“Politics, Protests, and a Pandemic: How the 2020 Election Has Been Transformed”
Week 7 – August 12
Adrienne LaFrance, Executive Editor at The Atlantic
“The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning”
Week 8 – August 18
Dr. Bruce Rabin (aka Dr. Stress), Retired Professor of Pathology at University of Pittsburgh and Medical Director of the Division of Clinical Immunopathology and the Healthy Lifestyle Program for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
“Understanding and managing stress for better mental and physical health”
Week 9 – August 25
Dr. Terry Madonna, Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College. He is also the Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll.
“The Politics of a Divided America: The Factors that will Matter for ALL voters in the 2020 Elections”