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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Jan Helson, co-founder and board member of Global Game Changers, says that Kentucky has so much intellectual capital and we agree! She shares the complexities of this intellectual capital and the potential that lies within.
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Justin Walker, Executive Director of Global Game Changers and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Louisville, shares how he came to his role with Global Game Changers and the impact the organization tries to make in the lives of children.
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Justin Walker shares that values are what makes Kentucky great. “If you work hard, you can accomplish anything.”
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Justin Walker shares insight into the Global Game Changers program. Talent plus heart equals a superpower!
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Jan Helson, co-founder and board member of Global Game Changers, explains how Global Game Changers uses fictional superheroes to help children identify with becoming real life superheroes.
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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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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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Evan Roth, managing partner at BBR Partners, discusses his education in Kentucky, what made it special, and how it uniquely positioned him for success.
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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, discusses the intellectual curiosity in Kentucky. “My values and character have been shaped a lot by my family, by the people I grew up with and the values they had instilled in them over time.”
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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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A physician. An entrepreneur. An attorney. The three smart and lively Booth sisters are proof that a Kentucky upbringing lays a strong foundation for a lifetime of excellence. Physician and author, Rebecca, entrepreneur and expert in brand-strategy, Cecil, and attorney and marriage equality advocate, Lady, share stories of growing up “southern” in Louisville and finding creative and fulfilling ways of leading lives with sisterhood always at the heart.
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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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