
Brad Franklin: Hip-Hop’s Seat at the Table
Hip-hop may be the most influential genre in popular music but its artists are not always seen as community leaders in other contexts. Brad Franklin...Read More

Marshall Ramsey: Confessions of a Cartooning Warrior
Prolific content creators are often seen as lucky winners of the genetic talent lottery. That myth is frequently debunked by professional creatives who rely on...Read More

Scott Millroy: Life on Mars?
The idea of a human colony on Mars is rapidly becoming a plan. Mississippi scientist, Scott Milllroy, and his colleagues are devising a plan for...Read More

Alysia Burton Steele: Completing History
Alysia Burton Steele is a photojournalist and assistant professor at the Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media. Her 2015 book, Delta Jewels, chronicles the...Read More

LaVita Tuff: Adding Value to Voices
This informative talk explains the idea of open municipal data portals and what they are doing to modernize governance in the cities that have embraced...Read More

Katy Simpson Smith: How to Come Home Again
This gifted young writer shares her ideas about the relationship between self and place and the meaning that can arise when we return home in...Read More

Seth Misenar: Breached
Cybersecurity is one of the great challenges of our time. In fact, it seems that data breaches are not only risks that high profile companies...Read More

Erin Hayne: Investing in your own creative economy
As cities compete for talented young workers, many of them focus on top-down decisions and large-scale projects that cater to creatives. Erin Hayne shares her...Read More

Latina Rivers: Right stuff, wrong sex
The effort to narrow the gender gap in STEM careers may be misdirected. Women are far less represented in engineering than in other STEM disciplines....Read More

Robert Blaine: New learning environments for new brains
Technology infused learning environments are now expected but designing them is not as simple as selecting the latest gadgets. A better approach is finding a...Read More