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Leigh King Forstman is the Founding Member of King Forstman Law LLC in Birmingham. She was inducted as a 2018 Fellow of the Birmingham Bar Foundation and recognized as one of B-Metro’s Top Flight Attorneys 2019 and Top Women Lawyers 2019. Ms. Forstman was previously selected for the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers in the field of Civil Trial Practice based on her AV Preeminent® Rating, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards. She…

Chloe Cook, Executive Director Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema, Sidewalk Film Festival Chloe is a native of Talladega, Alabama and received her BA in Communication from Auburn University. Chloe has served in the role of Executive Director at Sidewalk since 2009. Under her leadership ticket sales for the annual Sidewalk Film Festival have quadrupled and the Fest has been recognized multiple times by international film industry press, most recently being named one of the "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" (MovieMaker magazine 2017)…

Pam Fessler is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk, where she covers poverty, philanthropy, and voting issues. In her reporting at NPR, Fessler does stories on homelessness, hunger, affordable housing, and income inequality. She reports on what non-profit groups, the government, and others are doing to reduce poverty and how those efforts are working. Her poverty reporting was recognized with a 2011 First Place National Headliner Award. Fessler also covers elections and voting, including efforts to make voting more accessible,…

YWCA: A social justice organization, yesterday and today. 

'Leading From 5000 Feet' is presented by Kiwanians, Meredith Calhoun of Practice Works and Sarah Robinson of Birmingham Speaks. Prior to COVID, great leaders operated from a 35,000 foot, high-level view. In March, that view slammed down onto the tarmac, with leaders in the trenches just to keep everything going. Now that the immediate crisis has passed (for now) but the future is still murky and uncertain, how should effective leaders be leading? In "Leading from 5000 Feet", we'll talk…