Junction City Main Street will present a Diversity & Equality Community Forum on Jan. 11 from 5:15 to 7 p.m. at the C.L. Hoover Opera House. It will feature Oscar winning, University of Kansas filmmaker and Junction City native Kevin Willmott, along with Christopher Harris, a researcher at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Ed O'Malley, Executive director of the Kansas Leadership Center will serve as facilitator.
The goal of the forum is to celebrate our diversity, continue and broaden the community's dialogue around race and equality, and begin to create a strategy to promote entrepreneurship and job creation in the region.
Willmott will focus on the entrepreneurial aspects of filmmaking and the unique challenges of being a minority filmmaker.
Harris will discuss data and trends that suggest the positive impact on rural areas of entrepreneurship along with business and job creation.
The event is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.