Chattanooga 2.0: Talk focuses on removing barriers to opportunity

MDC President David Dodson, center, talks with Public Education Foundation President Daniel Challener, right, on Friday before kicking off the CHA 2.0 Talks, part of the Education and Innovation series, in the Edney Building on East Eleventh Street. Benwood Foundation President Sarah Morgan listens, left.

By Kendi A. Rainwater April 16, 2016 3 min read

Future talks in the Chattanooga 2.0 series:

April 26: Amanda Ripley will speak at the Church on Main at 5:30 p.m. Her talk is titled The Global Quest to Save America’s Schools.May 9: Sir Ken Robinson will speak at The Howard School at 6 p.m. His talk is titled Building Creative Schools.June 2: Tiffany Anderson will speak at 5:30 p.m. Location to be determined, and her talk is titled Putting Schools at the Center of a CommunityEach talk is open to the public free of charge. For more information visit chatt2.org/events

How many people think where someone starts in life shouldn’t determine where they end up?

This is the question David Dodson asked a room of more than 100 people gathered at the Edney Building on Friday afternoon.

“Good,” Dodson said, as nearly every hand in the room shot into the air.

Dodson, president of MDC, a group that helps organizations and communities close gaps separating people from opportunity, kicked off Chattanooga 2.0’s speaker series by giving a talk titled “The Infrastructure of Opportunity in Chattanooga.”