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
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For Lung Cancer Awareness and National Smoking Cessation Month, CMC welcomes two Ohio-based global leaders in lung cancer research to unpack the causes, examine groundbreaking detection strategies for – and new targeted treatments of – America’s number one cancer killer. -
With a diverse panel of experts, this CMC forum features an analysis of the 2023 election results, a look at what the future might hold after Ohio’s voters have spoken, and a health check of American democracy. -
This CMC forum features Representative Dontavius L. Jarrells, 1st District, Ohio House of Representatives, Representative Thomas Hall, 45th District, Ohio House of Representatives, Representative Latyna Humphrey, 2nd District, Ohio House of Representatives, and Representative Nick Santucci, 64th District, Ohio House of Representatives, with host Anna Staver, Host, All Sides with Anna Staver, WOSU Public Media. -
This CMC forum features Zach Klein, Columbus City Attorney, David Tryon, Director of Litigation, The Buckeye Institute, and Thell Robinson III, Founder and CEO, Halt Violence, and Amelia Robinson, Opinion and Community Engagement Editor, The Columbus Dispatch, with Clare Roth, Managing Editor, The Ohio Newsroom. -
This CMC forum features Khris Goins, President/Founder, Black Transmen of Ohio, J. Bennett Guess, Executive Director, ACLU of Ohio, Amanda Erickson, Director of Education & Outreach, Kaleidoscope Youth Center, Inc., and Chris Equizi, a.k.a. Virginia West, Show Director, District West, with host Ronald Murray, Associate Director of Health Advocacy, Equitas Health.
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CMC turns its stage over to Central Ohio Gen Z girls for an unfiltered look how at this rising generation sees the world, themselves, and the future. -
This CMC forum features Gaëtane Verna, Executive Director, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Brooke Minto, Executive Director and CEO, The Columbus Museum of Art with host Erica Thompson, Features Editor, The Columbus Dispatch. -
This CMC forum features the American Enterprise Institute’s Brent Orell, nominated by President George W. Bush to lead the Employment and Training Administration of the US Department of Labor, as well as Lisa Patt-McDaniel, CEO, Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio, with host Archie Williamson, Founder and CEO, Diversified Systems, Inc. -
This CMC forum features Lubna Najjar, Founder & CEO, IL Moda Brand Development, Creative Director, Her Denim, and Board President, Columbus Fashion Council, Melanie Corn, Ed.D., President, Columbus College of Art & Design, and Katherine DePizzo, President, Justice Design Lab, with host Maria Seguin, Board Member, Columbus Fashion Council, and Member, OSU Fashion & Retail Industry. -
In this CMC forum, Columbus Business First’s Bonnie Meibers sits down with Brett Kaufman for an-in-depth conversation on his vision for Columbus and the city’s unrealized potential as a modern, sustainable, and equitable city.
