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• A Brief History of Southwest Florida’s Indigenous People from a Western Perspective

  • When
    January 15, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

  

  Registration opens on 11/15/24

  A Brief History of Southwest Florida’s Indigenous People from a Western Perspective

  
  

  Museum of the Everglades manager Thomas Lockyear will share the harrowing saga of our region’s native tribes and the hardships they endured as Florida’s population shifted, grew, and changed. He will discuss the impact of incoming European civilizations on the Calusa, Seminole, and Miccosukee Indians and address the evolution of the latter two tribes throughout the 20^th century. Mr. Lockyear will also share his experiences collaborating with elected officials from the Miccosukee Tribe to create a recent museum exhibit telling the Tribe’s history as they wish to have it told.

   

  
  

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• Special Speaker - Anthony Scaramucci

  • When
    February 12, 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Nina Iser Center
  • Spaces left
    500

  

  Registration opens 12/12/24

  The Global Geopolitical Landscape and Impact of the 2024 Election

  Anthony Scaramucci
  

  Financier and former Trump White House official Anthony Scaramucci will discuss the current global geopolitical landscape and how it could be affected by the outcome of the 2024 Presidential election. 

  Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017. 

  Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs's investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996. After leaving Goldman Sachs, he founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital.

  On July 21, 2017, Scaramucci was appointed White House Director of Communication. Days into the job, Scaramucci provoked controversy after launching a strongly worded attack on members of the Trump administration in an interview with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that he believed was off the record. Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by President Donald Trump, at the recommendation of the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly. He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in 2020 and 2024 elections.

  
  

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