2015 National Gathering: Regional Echoes
We are excited to announce a new experiment in the way we connect folks at the National Gathering and at home: Regional Echoes! In previous years, we’ve built in a lunch or dinner by regional context into the National Gathering so that folks would have a chance to connect with people they are more likely to run into a semi-regular basis. This year, we hope that by gathering folks after they’ve returned home, we will allow the conversation to continue, provide opportunities to further develop relationships and local connections, offer an accountability check for commitments folks may have made at the Gathering, and create space for folks who were unable to travel to Chicago but participated by live-streaming to connect to the larger Gathering.
Here are the cities (sorted by alphabetically by state) where Echo conversations will be held in the next few weeks and the names of leaders convening the conversations. To contact these folks for more information, click on their names below:
Birmingham, AL: Leanne Pearce Reed
Claremont, CA: Karen Sapio
Sacramento, CA: Jim Kitchens
Denver, CO: Linda Orosz
New Haven, CT: Adele Crawford
Washington, DC: Therese Taylor-Stinson, Rachel Vaagenes, and Mary Rodgers
Winter Park, FL: Jason Micheli
Atlanta, GA: Betsy Lyles
Cedar Rapids, IA: A.J. Plummer and Chuck Peters
Chicago, IL: Jan Edmiston
Indianapolis, IN: Carol McDonald
Louisville, KY: Matt Bowman and Scott Cervas
Ann Arbor, MI: Kelly Shriver and Fairfax Fair
Grand Rapids, MI: Karen Fitz La Barge
St. Louis, MO: Rob Dyer
Charlotte, NC: Suzanne Davis
Greensboro, NC: Mark Brainerd
Nebraska City, NE: Greg and Heidi Bolt
Princeton, NJ: Kristie Finley and Sharyl Dixon
Albany, NY: Katy Stenta and Eric Fagans
Buffalo, NY: Howard Boswell
New York City, NY: Charlene Han Powell
Cleveland, OH: Eric Dillenbeck
Columbus, OH: Karen Chakoian
Dayton, OH: Margaret Gillespie and Shelley Wiley
Portland, OR: Beth Neel
Philadelphia, PA: David Stipp-Bethune
Mechanicsburg, PA: Kathryn Johnston
Greenville, SC: Al Masters and Andy Casto-Waters
Memphis, TN: Lucy Waechter Webb
Dallas, TX: Nicole Bates
Austin, TX: Kyle Walker
Richmond, VA: Rosy Robson and Owen Gray
Seattle, WA: Leland Seese and Bert Johnson
Madison, WI: Scott Anderson
Milwaukee, WI: Robert Ater
Is your city missing from this list? Contact us if you would like to coordinate an Echo in your area!