Past Speakers
FFBC members enjoy breakfast and a speaker during our monthly gatherings. Breakfast begins promptly at 7:00am. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are at Hoyt Sherman Place. To view upcoming speakers, click here.
Hoyt Sherman Place (Web site)
1501 Woodland Avenue
Des Moines,IA 50309
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December 1, 2017
Matt Mardis-LeCroy,
Senior Minister of Plymouth United Church of Christ.
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November 3, 2017
Dean Lerner,
retired attorney who spent 30 years in Iowa public service as Assistant Attorney General, Chief Deputy Secretary of State, and Deputy/Director of the Iowa Department of Inspections & Appeals
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October 6, 2017
Reverend Mark Stringer,
current pastor of First Unitarian Church who recently announced his retirement and will be taking a leadership position at the Iowa chapter of the ACLU.
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September 1, 2017
Michelle Book,
President and CEO of Food Bank of Iowa.
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August 4, 2017
Ryan Berg,
author of ‘No House to Call My Home,’ and an advocate for homeless LGBTQ youth.
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July 7, 2017
Dr. Loren Olson
psychiatrist and book author.
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June 2, 2017
Reverend Anna Blaedel,
Executive Director of the University of Iowa Wesley Student Center and self-avowed and avid practicing lesbian, whose complaint filed against her in June, 2016 by three Iowa Conference clergymen, was dismissed on Aug. 30 by Bishop Julius C. Trimble.
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May 5, 2017
Bob Hopper
CEO at Boy Scouts of America, Mid-Iowa Council
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April 7, 2017
Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel,
the new Executive Director for One Iowa
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March 3, 2017
Robert Warren,
Executive Director for Hoyt Sherman Place
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February 3, 2017
Dennis Goldford,
Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Drake University.
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January 6, 2017
Bill Moulder,
former Police Chief of Des Moines, Iowa who now owns and operates Moulder and Associates Police Management Consultants.