Earlier this month, our nation marked the 235th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. After a hot summer of intense debate and humbling compromises, 39 Americans with diverse interests and backgrounds signed their names to a first-of-its-kind document in world history. Sitting at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit at
Though Henry Reese never anticipated being relevant to the topic of hateful acts of violence that the yearly Eradicate Hate Global Summit was designed to help eliminate, he has in many ways become one of the faces of this year’s summit. Last month, Reese, co-founder of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, was
On today’s episode of The Confluence: We talk about the widening availability of COVID-19 vaccines that target certain variants of the virus; and a conversation with an organizer and speaker for the second annual Eradicate Hate Summit, which is convening nearly 300 experts in Pittsburgh to talk about solutions to a rise in hate crimes and hateful rhetoric.Today’s guests include: Dr. Amesh Adalja, infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; Laura Ellsworth, partner-in-charge of global community service initiatives at Jones Day and co-chair of the summit, and Julie Platt, board chair of the Jewish Federations of North America.