Finis “KY” White discusses his experience working with Drake and Waka Flocka Flame, including putting his own tag on records and utilizing his connections.
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Finis “KY” White shares Kentucky’s contribution to the global music hub of Atlanta. Atlanta was once the hub for music coming out of the south but it is now regarded as a hub for music worldwide.
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Finis “KY” White shares what made him who he is: his garage “studio” that he and his friends used in his house as a kid. It was his start to music.
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Vicki Phillips, National Geographic Education Officer, talks about leading teachers in Kentucky. “We are recognizing that we have too often not had teachers at the table in really important conversations about how to improve education. Leading the way in a lot of that are Kentucky’s teachers, who are making Kentucky proud.”
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Mary T. Meagher shares how she started swimming in Louisville and the rivalry that exists between Plantation Country Club and Lakeside Swim Club.
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Vicki Phillips, National Geographic Education Officer, says that people are often surprised that she is from Kentucky. “Their assumptions are typically incorrect.”
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Laura Schwab, President of Aston Martin, shares what it was like growing up in Louisville and the influence Kentucky has had on her career.
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“Kentucky taught me how to work,” says Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp. Sharp shares some of his notable accomplishments and a compelling statement on how Kentucky has influenced his life.
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Chuck Brymer shares Kentucky’s influence on his personal brand by sharing his story and how Kentucky distinguished him from others around him.
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Phil Sharp shares why he picked up and pioneered electron microscopy. He shares the discovery, what it was then and how it is still being used today.
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Kelsi Worrell Dahlia shares about Louisville’s swimming legacy, including notable swimmers and families that have come out of Louisville and the swimming culture that lives here.
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Kentucky to the World, in collaboration with The Kentucky Center, presented the Republic Bank Foundation Speaker Series: In Pursuit of Answers: A Conversation with Kentucky Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp on March 12, 2018.
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Elizabeth Mayhew is currently the Brand Editor for Reese Witherspoon’s Southern-inspired brand, Draper James, a contributing editor at NBC’s Today Show and a monthly columnist for The Washington Post. She also is the author of FLIP! for Decorating (Ballantine). She has worked for a number of publications including REAL SIMPLE, House Beautiful, Southern Living, and Woman’s Day. A native of Louisville, Kentucky and a graduate of Georgetown University, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two teenage kids.
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Junior Bridgeman, restaurant magnate and former NBA star, reflects on his life and the Kentucky influence. Listen as Bridgeman shares moments from his life and how Kentucky showed up throughout his career.
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Tracy Drain, Deputy Chief Engineer: Juno Mission, shares what her job is and what she does. She also shares just how many people it takes to fly a spaceship and the importance of new people entering the field in the years to come.
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New York Times world news correspondents Michael Wines and Sharon LaFraniere met one another when he, a Louisville native, and she worked together at the Louisville Times from 1979 to 1983. From there they lived in DC, Moscow, Johannesburg and Beijing where they witnessed and brought to international attention a stunning range of world events and the eye-opening realities of people’s everyday lives. n our conversation prior to their presentation, they share a perspective on how working at the Louisville Times they, along with several now world-renown journalists, experienced “the inculcation of what it means to be a writer.” They also offer advice to people seeking to become a journalist today.
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William “Bill” Porter, a native Louisvillian, is a legend in American automobile design, sparked some of the world’s hottest automobile trends of the 60’s and 70’s and played a seminal role in the history of American muscle car design. Porter tells how the unique influences of his Kentucky upbringing affected his work and love of design. He talks about his teachers at the University of Louisville Art department and his childhood art classes where at the age of 7 he was already drawing fighter planes.
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Dr. Sander “Sandy” Florman, a native Louisvillian, is one of the world’s leading experts in organ transplantation and a champion of making organ transplantation more widely accessible in the U.S through his work on innovative strategies that connect potential live donors and recipients. He discusses how being a Kentuckian brings him a professional edge in his position as director of the Recanati Institute at Mount Sinai in New York City, his experience rebuilding a transplantation program in post-Katrina New Orleans, and how the connections he made at University of Louisville Medical School opened the doors to his career.
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Ellen Miller is the co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based, non-partisan non-profit dedicated to using the power of the internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency. Her Kentucky roots run deep, as a member of the Shapira family, whose Heaven Hill Distilleries based in Bardstown is America’s largest independent family-owned producer of bourbon. Here she discusses technology’s role in government transparency, historical Kentuckians who influence her worldview and lifework and Louisville’s role as a leader in government open-data policy.
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Kentucky to the World sat down with Jonathan Wolff, a legend in the TV music business and composer of 75 prime time TV series including Seinfeld and Will & Grace.
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