Detroit Regional Chamber and Detroit Public TV Partner on Digital Series Inspired by the Mackinac Conference
This week focuses on the Economic Cost of Inequity, including a panel discussion with Lt. Gov. Garland Gilchrist, First Independence Bank’s Kenneth Kelly and CMS Energy’s Patti Poppe
Watch 11 a.m., later this morning Wednesday at OneDetroitPBS.org
The Mackinac Policy Conference won’t be taking place on Mackinac Island this year. But its spirit lives on in a new free digital series that the Detroit Regional Chamber, in partnership with Detroit Public TV, is creating, called “MPC Conversations: Respond and Rebuild.”
Discussions will focus on Michigan’s response to COVID-19, its economic recovery, the 2020 election, racial justice and achieving equity.
This week’s topic, “By the Numbers: The Economic Costy of Inequity, features remarks by Courtney Cogburn, Co-director of the Justice, Equity, Technology Lab and Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work.
An esteemed panel of experts will offer their own observations:
- Garlin Gilchrist II, Lieutenant Governor, State of Michigan
- Kenneth Kelly, Chairman and CEO, First Independence Bank
- Patti K. Poppe, President and CEO, CMS Energy and Consumers Energy
- Moderator: Sandy K. Baruah, President and CEO, Detroit Regional Chamber
Other headliners during the 13-week series include Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Mayor Mike Duggan, along with national speakers such as former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, best-selling author Margaret Hoover and political pundit Harold Ford Jr., who will also provide perspective.
These sessions fulfill a demand for statewide discussion on how best to move Michigan forward at this critical time.
At Detroit Public TV, we are honored to partner with the Detroit Regional Chamber for the 10th consecutive year to bring crucial conversations like these to the widest possible audience.
Even though these discussions are now taking place in virtual space instead of on Mackinac Island, they are just as important in setting the agenda for social policy and social justice for the diverse communities we serve – in fact, even more so considering the challenges posed by the many-sided crisis we currently face.
As Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber, says, “There has never been a more important time to hold discussions among the state’s top business, government, and civic leadership.”
The series will be livestreamed online via the Chamber (detroitchamber.com/mpc20-conversations) and DPTV (OneDetroitPBS.org).
View the 13-week schedule: detroitchamber.com/mpc20-conversations/agenda/
Below: A scene that didn’t happen the last week of May 2020
