2019 FreeThinkers Lecture Series
 Here’s what we presented in this season

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.February 1st
“Setting Pro-Life on its Ear”

Author/Speakers: Rebecca Todd Peters, Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon University; Author of “A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice” Stephanie Fraim, CEO of Planned Parenthood, SW & Central FL

​March 1st
“Transitioning: The Future is Ours to Save”
Three Main Objectives for Quality of Life in Sarasota.

Speaker: Don Hall, Co-Executive Director of Transition US, and Developer of the annual Eat Local Week and corresponding Eat Local Guide of over 250 related business and organizations.

May 15th 
“The Fifth Column in America”
Link to the Blog (click here)

Speaker: Steve Martin, History Buff & Political Wonk
Dornbusch’s Law states that, “A crisis can take longer to arrive than you can possibly imagine, but when they do come they happen faster than you can imagine.” This crisis, decades in the making, is an inside job and it’s here now.
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April 5th
“Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew”
Speaker: Ellen Prager, Oceanographer, author of “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime” and the upcoming book, “Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew.”

May 3rd
“The Power of a Trauma Informed Community” Overcoming the Adverse Impact of Childhood Trauma

Speaker: Carrie Seidman, Columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune since 2010, Former staff writer for the New York Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune.

*Topics and speakers subject to change.

Carole Martin, Coordinator
FreeThinkers Speakers Series
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