A million years ago I co-founded the Free Shakespeare Company with Frank Farrell and became its Managing Director. I acted in some 20 plays and projects with them and recently found myself giving presentations on performing Shakespeare! It was a blast to revisit the subject!
Zooming with the Interns of i c stars Milwaukee (Cycle 9) on 12/23. Check out his great leadership development organization at www.icstars.org
Proud to have created the YPF for Pegasus in 1986. Tens of thousands of teens have written plays, hundreds of finalists, and dozens of winners. https://pegasustheatrechicago.org
Tom was interviewed on WVON on September 20, 2021 covering the state of Chicago’s civic finances in the wake of Mayor Lightfoot’s 2022 Budget Address. In this wide-ranging thirty minute interview we cover a lot of ground for justice and equity in Chicago!
Tom on WGN 9-18-21
Tom was interviewed by “Outside the Loop” host Mike Stephen on September 18, 2021. We went over how TIFs work and reviewed the headlines for Chicago’s 2020 TIF record-breaking TIF activities. Tom explains how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agrees with the CivicLab that TIFs are racist.
This has been an incredible few weeks! On April 23, 2021 the Chicago Tribune ran the most complete explanation of the TIF Illumination Project since we started the work in 2013! Thanks to the citizen organizers of Save Our Southland SOS!
On May 10, 2021 I was interviewed on WBEZ’s “Reset” program by Sasha-Ann Simon. The 16 minute segment was part of their series “Re-Imagine Chicago.”
I teach “Civics 101” for the awesome training and leadership development organization i c stars. The most current class, Cycle 47, sent me a wonderful set of images expressing how the class (four sessions) impacted them. I was deeply touched. Thank you. If you would like a civics workshop, please contact me at tom@civiclab.us. You can see the workshops I offer via the POWER Institute.
My chapter “Chicago Is Not Broke – Moving from Scarcity to Abundance” appears in Prof. Dick Simpson’s newly released “Twenty-First Century Chicago” from Cognella Press. Guess who has the next chapter in the book? Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Pretty cool, no?
Check out my first post for Medium, “Time To Embrace #More Public” and the related video at https://tinyurl.com/Great-Public-Hoover-Dam.
