The Diversity Think Forum will be held Thursday, Oct. 8, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center’s Senior Classroom as part of homecoming festivities.
The forum will be a roundtable discussion, featuring the topic “A Celebration of African-American Philanthropy.”
The roundtable will be composed of the following participants, many of whom are alumni:
- Linda Sharpe-Taylor (WRC ’78), psychologist at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and president of the CWRU African-American Alumni Association;
- Margot James Copeland, executive vice president of corporate philanthropy and chair and CEO of the KeyBank Foundation;
- Robert P. Madison (ARC ’48), president of Robert P. Madison International and Trustee Emeritus of Case Western Reserve University;
- Kurt Karakul (LAW ’79), president and executive director of the Third Federal Foundation;
- Dominic Ozanne, president and CEO of Ozanne Construction Company, Inc. and trustee of Case Western Reserve University; and
- Cary Dell, manager of communications for Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions.
Marilyn S. Mobley (GRS ’87, English), vice president for inclusion, diversity and equal opportunity, will moderate the discussion.
For more information, visit case.edu/diversity/.