Part 1: Community Resiliency- Supporting Our Most Vulnerable Communities In these unprecedented times, the way people band together in response to disasters is a key factor in a community’s ability to recover. An extensive study on disaster recovery by the RAND Corporation defines community resilience as the…
“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.” – Michelle Obama Despite comprising more than half of the college-educated US labor force, women are still unrepresented at a…
Can We Build a Beloved Community and Keep Austin Weird? “Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over the…
By Elizabeth McGuire Of the many attributes listed on Ron Kessler’s bio, a very important one is missing: he writes bad poetry really well. Kessler takes great pride in this skill, although many of his colleagues may not know about it. One recent poem, crafted…
We hope you will join us for our next Meet the Leader session with Andy Sernovitz CEO, GasPedal and SocialMedia.org and author of Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking. The Meet the Leader series provides an intimate gathering to give alumni…
Our panelists are: Mayor Adler, City of Austin Judge Eckhardt, Travis County What a Year: Hear from Mayor Adler and County Judge Eckhardt On June 21st we will close our Engage breakfast season with City of Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt. This…
Three noteworthy Austinites will be honored for their contributions to the Austin community in an upcoming celebration hosted by Leadership Austin. Ballet Austin Executive Director Cookie Ruiz, Ron Kessler of the Ron Kessler Group, and Lydia Clay of Momark Development were selected based on their…
