Featured Events

Join us for a WACC Speaker Series virtual presentation with Anna Fifield, Beijing Bureau Chief at The Washington Post on Thursday, May 28 as she shares "the behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign" of Kim Jong Un, North Korea's premier and elusive tyrant. She'll offer insight into his penchant for political drama, his obsession with provoking the United States (and others in the world) with threats of nuclear missiles and war, and North Korea's status in the world.

Join us for a WACC Speaker Series virtual presentation with Graham Allison, Professor of Government at Harvard University, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Clinton, and Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan on Thursday, May 21 as he shares his research on China's response to COVID-19 and its role in this new global order through diplomacy and aid to countries affected by the coronavirus.

Join us for a WACC Speaker Series virtual presentation with Dena Diorio, Mecklenburg County Manager as she provides us with an update on the county's response to this global pandemic, the strategies in place to minimize risk to our citizens as businesses slowly reopen, and what the county has learned from other governments around the world as combat COVID-19 together.

Join us for a WACC Speaker Series virtual presentation with Philip Coggan, Bartleby Columnist at The Economist and author of "A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age" who will share his perspective on how people have played an instrumental in technological innovation trade, specialization in industry and work, farming and agriculture and more that has created this interdependent world in which we live.

Join us for a WACC Distinguished Speaker Series virtual presentation with Dr. Derek Raghavan, President of Atrium Health's Levine Cancer Institute as we learn more about LCI's COVID-19 response.