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Columbus Metropolitan Club
Saturday mornings at 10, Podcast

With a mission to connect people and ideas through community conversation, the Columbus Metropolitan Club presents weekly town hall-style forums where engaged citizens hear from speakers and panelists on a variety of newsworthy, current, and relevant topics of community interest. CMC has almost 1,400 members of various ages, professions, races, and beliefs. WCBE is proud to partner with CMC to deliver audio of the forums on-air and through this podcast. 

Latest Episodes
  • This CMC forum features Dr. Amy Acton, Licensed Physician, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and Former Director, Ohio Department of Health; Susan DiMickele, CEO, National Church Residences; Dr. Whitney Raglin Bignall, On Our Sleeves Associate Clinical Director, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Dr. Megan Schabbing, Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services, OhioHealth and with host, Tracie McCambridge, Director of Art & Resilience, The Wexner Center for the Arts.
  • This CMC forum features Barb Smoot, President & CEO, Women for Economic and Leadership Development, and First Lady Shannon Ginther, Chair, Columbus Women’s Commission, Dr. Joyce Chen, Professor of Economics, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University with host Tanya Salyers, Director of Advocacy, YWCA Columbus.
  • With the new heads of The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and Cardinal Health, this CMC forum dives into a conversation on what the future holds for advanced healthcare in Central Ohio and around the world.
  • This CMC forum welcomes education visionary Ron Clark plus a panel of passionate leaders for a high-energy look at American education reinvented for the 21st century.
  • This CMC forum features Stevie Pasamonte, Chair, Transit Columbus, William Murdock, Executive Director, MORPC, Shannon Hardin, President, Columbus City Council, Monica Tellez-Fowler, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, COTA and introductory remarks by Andrew J. Ginther, Mayor, City of Columbus, with host, Curtis Jackson, Evening Anchor, Spectrum News 1.
  • This CMC forum features Jeff Edwards, Chairman, CEO, & President of Installed Building Products and Edwards Companies and Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, City of Columbus, with introductory remarks by Marc Conte, Executive Director, Capital Crossroads and Discovery Special Improvement District. with host Stacia Naquin, News Anchor, ABC 6, Fox 28.
  • With an expert panel, this CMC forum unpacks the present and future of Ohio’s blooming pot industry.
  • Join CMC for a special conversation on the present and future state of American politics with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and chief of the State House News Bureau Karen Kasler.
  • This CMC forum features Matt Schuler, Executive Director, The Ohio Casino Control Commission, Dan Dodd, Vice President of Government Relations, ZHF Consulting LLC, Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson, Chief, Office of Prevention & Problem Gambling, Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, and Oyauma Garrison, President & Chief Executive Officer, Maryhaven, Inc, with host Rob Oller, Sports Reporter & Columnist, The Columbus Dispatch.
  • What messages should public art in Columbus convey, and who gets to decide whose art becomes public art? Listen to this CMC forum featuring a panel of art leaders as we discuss the release of the new State of Public Art Report by the Greater Columbus Arts Council with a passionate conversation on the role, message, and future of public art in Columbus.