Junction City Main Street is hosting a Diversity & Equality Community Forum on March 8th from 5:15 - 7 p.m. at the C.L. Hoover Opera House. Featured speakers will include Kevin Willmott and Christopher Harris while Ed O'Malley, Executive Director of the Kansas Leadership Center, will serve as facilitator.
Harris is a researcher at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. He will discuss data and trends that suggest the positive impact on rural areas of entrepreneurship and business and job creation.
Willmott is an Oscar winning, University of Kansas filmmaker and Junction City native. He will focus on the entrepreneurial aspects of filmmaking and the unique challenges of being a minority filmmaker.