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Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Nicole Baker Fulgham is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap. She is the former vice president of faith community relations at Teach for America, has appeared on CNN and ABC News, and was named to the list of “50 Women to Watch: Those Most Shaping the Church and Culture” by Christianity Today. A native of Detroit, Nicole graduated from the University of Michigan and joined Teach for America here she taught fifth grade in Compton, California. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles, with a focus on urban education policy and teacher preparation. She is the recipient of an Education Entrepreneur Fellowship with The Mind Trust and serves on the board of several nonprofit and community organizations, including the National Association of Evangelicals and Faith in Public Life. Nicole and her husband have three children and live in the Washington, D.C. area.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Designated a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, Zachary Karabell is bringing a profound and refreshingly optimistic outlook to a world economy in crisis. He is a regular contributor on CNBC and Fast Money, and is also a frequent commentator on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Fox News, and The History Channel. Karabell regularly writes for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek: The Daily Beast. He is also the author of several books including his latest Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World. He is a graduate of Columbia, Oxford and Harvard and served as a professor of American History, American Government, Middle East History, and International Relations at several universities including Dartmouth and Harvard.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Appointed in June 2012, Michael Le Roy is the 10th and current president of Calvin College. Born in La Mesa, California, he grew up in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He attended Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington where he studied international studies and peace studies. While studying at Whitworth, Le Roy traveled and studied in three Central American countries in the midst of civil war. He worked in trade policy in apartheid-era South Africa through an internship with the Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in political science at Vanderbuilt University in 1994. Dr. Le Roy also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship in Goteberg, Sweden and taught as a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary. From 1994-2002 Le Roy taught political science at Wheaton College where he chaired the department of politics and international relations, developed a new international relations major and served for six years as the director of the Wheaton in Europe program. In 2002 he returned to Whitworth where he taught political science for three years before being appointed vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty. He is a strong believer in the role of Christian liberal arts in the landscape of Christian higher education and is leading Calvin College forward during a challenging era in the history of higher education.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Domestic minor sex trafficking (MNST), which is the commercial sexual exploitation of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services, happens all over the world including the United States. At least 100,000 U.S. children are exploited in prostitution every year in America. The average age a child is first exploited is 13 years old. Linda Smith has dedicated her life to changing this story. In 1998, while serving in the U.S. Congress, Linda traveled to a notorious brothel district in India where the hopeless faces of women and children forced into prostitution compelled her to found Shared Hope International. Linda is the primary author of From Congress to the Brothel and Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children. She co-authored The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and the DEMAND Report. Linda has testified before Congress, presented at national and international forums, and has been published in news outlets and journals. Linda served as a Washington State legislator (1983-93) before she was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1994. Shared Hope International is dedicated to bringing an end to sex trafficking through a three-prong approach – prevention, restoration, and justice.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Born into Mississippi poverty, the son of a sharecropper, John M. Perkins fled to California when he was 17 after his older brother was murdered by a town marshal. Although Dr. Perkins vowed never to return, in 1960 after he accepted Christ, he returned to his boyhood home to share the gospel to Christ with those still living in the region. His outspoken support and leadership role in civil rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, imprisonment, and beatings. Today, Dr. Perkins is president of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development of Jackson, Mississippi. He is one of the leading evangelical voices to come out of the American civil rights movement. He is also an internationally known author, speaker, and teacher on issues of racial reconciliation and Christian community development.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
The concept of “normal weather” has shifted with the increase of more extreme weather events; drier droughts, wetter storms, and more historic flooding events. Today’s weather patterns are far from the weather patterns we grew up with. Climate change is favoring all weather now, and it has a profound implications for our future. As Minnesota’s first CBM broadcast meteorologist with a meteorology degree from Penn State, Paul has spent 26 years in broadcasting radio and television, web production, print and reporting. Although he grew up in Pennsylvania, he has spent nearly his entire career in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, 11 years in KARE11, and another 11 years at WCCO-TV. In addition to 3 years at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Douglas has appeared on ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. A serial entrepreneur, Douglas started with EarthWatch, the first company to bring 3-D weather graphics to broadcasters in 1991. In 1998 he started Digital Cyclone, the first company to have an application on a cell phone. Garmin purchased Digital Cyclone in 2007, allowing Douglas to focus his efforts on his next venture, WeatherNation. Douglas also teamed with Barnes and Noble to write a national book on weather, “Restless Skies, the Ultimate Weather Book.” He has taught college classes on broadcast meteorology, lectured extensively on climate change, and he still writes a daily weather column for the Star Tribune newspaper. His software was used in Steven Spielberg’s movies “Jurassic Park” and “Twister, and his reporting and television weathercasting has garnered AP Awards and a local Emmy.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Dr. Sweet is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a prize-winning historian with a Ph.D. in history. She practiced for twenty year at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, where she began writing. In her recent book, God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, she lays out her evidence – in stories of her patients and her hospital – for some radically new ideas about medicine and healthcare in this country. In our attempts to get control of healthcare costs by privileging “efficiency”, she suggests, we’ve been headed down the wrong path. Medicine works best – that is, arrives at the right diagnosis and the right treatment for the least amount of money – when it is personal and face-to-face; when the doctor has enough time to do a good job, and pays attention not only to the patient but to what’s around the patient. Dr. Sweet calls this approach Slow Medicine. Olive Sacks say’s God’s Hotel should be “required reading for anyone interested in the business of health care – and especially those interested in the humanity of health care.”
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
On September 7, 1979, ESPN was launched. Entrepreneurial daring, irrepressible enthusiasm and a dash of good luck gave the world the first 24-hour network. Once unleashed upon sports fans, ESPN’s impact forever changed the way we watch television. The man who had the dream, the founder of ESPN, is Bill Rasmussen. A life-long entrepreneur and sports fan, Rasmussen’s innovations in advertising, sports and broadcasting are too numerous to list, but they include the creation of “Sports Center”, wall-to-wall coverage of NCAA regular-season and “March Madness” college basketball, and coverage of the College World Series. He broke the advertising barrier to cable television by signing Anheuser Busch to the largest cable TV advertising contract ever. Rasmussen is a frequent guest on radio, television and the internet, and is the author of the best selling book, “Sports Junkies Rejoice! The Birth of ESPN.” A United States Air Force veteran, Rasmussen received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from DePaw University and his MBA from Rutgers University.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
An American astronomer, Jennifer Wiseman received her bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT and her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University. Wiseman discovered periodic comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff while working as an undergraduate research assistant in 1987. She is currently the senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center, where she previously headed the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory. With a keen interest in science policy and public dialogue, she served as a Congressional Science Fellow and currently directs the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A committed Christian, she authored several essays addressing the relationship of astronomy and Christian faith. She grew up on an Arkansas farm, where she enjoyed late night star-gazing walks with her parents and pets. She will share the latest astronomical discoveries and images from space and discuss how galaxies, stars and planets form and mature, what they can teach us about God, and how good science strengthens our faith.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.

Calvin College January Series 2014 – Remote Live Webcast
Anne Zaki is a resource development specialist for global and multi-cultural resources at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, living with her husband and four sons in Cairo, Egypt. Anne received her Bachelor’s degree from Calvin College in Psychology and Sociology in 1999, her Master’s degree from The American University in Cairo in the field of Social Psychology in 2002, and her Masters of Divinity from Calvin Theological Seminary in 2009. Anne, who was born in Egypt, and her husband, Naji Umran, pastored two churches in Michigan and British Columbia but always planned to return one day to Egypt to live and serve. In September 2011, nine months after the events of the Arab Spring, they felt called to make the move. Anne will share with us what life is like in Egypt for Middle Eastern Christians and share with us where she finds her hope.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a suggested $5 donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
For more information on the Calvin College January Series click here.
The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.