Each year The Education Alliance hosts two regional EDTalk® events across West Virginia. Each event is an education-based speaker series designed to engage business, education, and community leaders in innovative discussions about connecting education, jobs and West Virginia’s future from diverse perspectives. In 2020, The Education Alliance will host two virtual EDTalks® by Zoom on supporting public education during the COVID-19 crisis in West Virginia.

The first EDTalk® will be held on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 11 am to 12 pm. This event is open to the public with free registration through May 12. The topic of this event will be Broadband: Expanding Equity and Access to Learning.

The event will feature EDTalks® presentations by:

• The Honorable Joe Manchin III, U.S. Senator
• The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. Senator
• Mr. Rob Hinton, Chair of the WV Broadband Enhancement Council
• State Superintendent Clayton Burch, WV Department of Education

The 2020 EDTalks® speaker series is sponsored by Dow, Inc. (gold) and Bowles Rice LLP (silver). For more information or to register online, contact Olivia McCuskey at [email protected] or 304-382-1497.