2025’s First Event: The Commons in Conversation
La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, joins The Commons in Conversation to talk about racial healing in America and her personal journey from encountering racism as a child in Detroit to leading one of the country’s largest grant makers.
Montgomery Tabron, Kellogg’s first female and first Black chief executive, is the author of two books to be released in January: How We Heal, a personal reflection on how to move beyond call-out culture, and Our Differences Make Us Stronger, a children’s book about community building. She’ll speak with Chronicle of Philanthropy CEO Stacy Palmer on Monday, January 13, at 12:30 p.m. ET.
📣 Join the conversation! The event is free on LinkedIn. 🎟 Registration is required.
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News and other noteworthy items:
- “The system is rigged” is not just an election slogan. Seventy percent of Americans believe that people in power are engineering things to benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of us, according to new research from the FrameWorks Institute. The “mindset is among the strongest and most pervasive we’ve seen,” declared the 25-year-old research group.
- In “The Race to Pacify Protestors,” the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Katherine Mangan explores the “free-speech teams” that colleges have established or expanded in the wake of last semester’s rancorous protests. In some cases, they’ve hired full-time free-speech administrators and mediators. “Representatives serve different roles,” Mangan writes, “showing up at events to hand out flyers with the latest rules, issuing warnings, and mediating or de-escalating situations when protesters and counterprotesters clash.”
