Conferences

7:00am – Vendor Set up.

7:30am – Conference Registration, Continental Breakfast, Coffee Bar, Networking, Meet with Vendors

8:30am – Welcome – Catherine Smith-Morgan, SLACO Board President

Words of Inspiration – Father Gerry Kleba, SLACO Founder

Welcome – Bobby Wassel, Ph.D, St. Louis University

Welcome – Office of Honorable Wesley Bell, Missouri 1st District Representative

Welcome from Honorable Tishaura O. Jones, Mayor, City of St. Louis

Welcome – Office of Honorable Megan Green, St. Louis Aldermanic Board President

Welcome from Honorable Darlene Green, Comptroller, City of St. Louis

Welcome from Honorable Chief Robert J. Tracy, St. Louis City Police Department

Welcome from Honorable Gabriel Gore, Circuit Attorney, City of St. Louis

Membership Recognition – Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, Shaw Neighborhood
Improvement Association, St. Louis Place Community Association
Vandeventer Community Corp.

Community Recognition – InvestSTL

Rick Bonasch Community Development Award – Sundy Whiteside, Accepting-Haley Whiteside McKenzie

9:30am – Break

9:40am – Panel One – Keeping It Collaborative with Dr. Mark Abbott, Moderator; Panelist: Jasmin Aber

Executive Director, Creative Exchange Lab; Gregory Carr, Associate Professor of Theater, Harris-Stowe State University; Gwen Moore, Historian, Missouri Historical Society.

10:45am Break 

10:50am – Panel Two – Keeping It Calm with Craig Schmid, Moderator; Panelist: Brittini Gray-Chiquillo, Deputy Director of InPower Institute and the Black Healers Collective, eNiCol, Director of Culture and Brand Strategy, InPower Institute, Dr. L J Punch, Executive and Medical Director of Power4STL.

11:55am – 1:30pm – Keeping It Cuisine, Meet Vendors, Get Food, Networking, St. Louis Story Stitchers

1:40pm – 2:30pm – Panel Three – Keeping it Organized and Collective with Charles Bryson, Trailnet; Lisa Potts, Delmar, Denise Carter, WE-Connect; Nate Lindsey; Dutchtown Main Streets