Author: Smart City Memphis

Greg Thompson is director of education for Hyde Family Foundations:“To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” – Franklin Roosevelt...

As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.

David Williams is president of Leadership Memphis:I think the problem most people have with developing a list of hopes for Memphis is feeling overwhelmed with the potential length of such a list. For those that see the Memphis...

Linn Sitler is the president of the Memphis and Shelby County Film Commission:A resolution? One of my new year’s resolutions is to — as Knox Phillips, bearer of Memphis’ biggest heart — told me years ago,...

Aaron Shafer is a researcher at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the driving force behind Skatelife Memphis:My hope is that this is the year that we stop pointing fingers at each other and rid ourselves of a toxic...

Brad Leon heads up Teach For America in Memphis:Every time Barack Obama said, “Yes we can,” during his presidential campaign, and especially on election night, I was reminded of why I became an educator. Teaching in New Orleans,...

Dorothy Gunther Pugh is founding artistic director an CEO of Ballet Memphis:Well then, it is my hope that Memphians will find within themselves the capacity to find their own joy, and creatively spread their discoveries to as...

Henry Turley is the head of his eponymous firm:Let the Fair Ground commence.

As we enter a new year, we asked a number of Memphians for their resolutions, observations, and insights for 2009. We continue to post them today.