PROGRAM FOR MARSHALL FELLOWS IN CHATTANOOGA
JUNE 24-28, 2006
SATURDAY JUNE 24 – SUNDAY JUNE 27, 2006
Meet home stay families at the bottom of the escalator upon arrival.
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2006
Chattanooga’s Visioning Process and Public/Private Partnerships
9:00 am Meet at RiverCity Company,
850 Market Street, 2nd floor of Miller Plaza, 265-3700
Creating a Community Vision: Eleanor Cooper, former Executive Director of Chattanooga Venture, will show a documentary of the community-wide process, Vision 2000 and ReVision 2000, held in Chattanooga in 1984 and again in 1993.
Public-Private Partnerships: Paul Brock, President of the RiverCity Company, will explain how a public private partnership created the financial and political support to turn the downtown and riverfront vision into a reality. The 21st Century Waterfront was completed in 2005.
11:00 am Board the van and Jeff Pfitzer will lead a tour of the Riverfront, including lunch along the way. Jeff is projects director for RiverCity, former director of capital planning for the city of Chattanooga, and a Marshall Fellow in 2004.
2:00 pm Shaping Public Opinion I
Meet at the offices of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, 400 E.11th Street
Conversation with Tom Griscom, Executive Editor of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Mr. Griscom managed the merger process of creating one newspaper that represents both left and right political/social views in this relatively conservative Southern town. He will also share perspectives on US/European relations before the fall of the Berlin Wall while he served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Reagan White House.
Walk to African American Museum, 200 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.
3:30 pm Race Relations and Multi-Cultural Issues in Chattanooga Today
A panel of leaders in the community’s social organizations will reveal the issues faced today as Chattanooga has become a more multi-cultural community in recent years.
Jackie Strongmoss, The Mayor’s Office of Multi-cultural Affairs
Warren Logan, Executive Director, Urban League
Sonia Sasse, Director, La Paz
Rachel Watanabe, Choices Women’s Center
John Edwards, the Chattanooga Courier
Chairperson: Manuel Rico, City Council member
TUESDAY, JUNE 27
11:00 am Donna Williams, entrepreneur and owner of Live Urban! will show how she markets urban living. Donna will join us for lunch at Caffeine’s.
Social Policy and Neighborhood Redevelopment
1:00-2:45 pm Van tour of downtown neighborhoods led by Jeff Pfitzer. Jeff will take you through a time warp. He will show how past polices of “urban renewal” devastated America’s inner cities and how we are reversing these trends today. Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprises (CNE) and Community Impact Fund are examples of pubic-private partnerships that have made this change happen.
3:00-4:00 pm The Church as Catalyst for Change: How an inner city church died and then came back to life as a center which serves the community:
Mike Feely, Executive Director of St. Andrews Center, Methodist pastor
Marisol Jimenez, lead ESOL teacher at Eastside Elementary, founder of La Paz
Lou Garcia, Metropolitan Minister of the Episcopal Church
5:00 pm Meet Mayor Ron Littlefield at his office.
6:00 pm Manuel Rico, City Council member, will introduce you to the City Council. One person should give greetings from the Marshall Fellows.