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Past Assemblies

Assembly: May 2022
William Allen, associate professor in the UF College of Medicine Department of Community Health and Family Medicine

Assembly: April 2022
Community organizers Helen Warren & Sue Blythe

Assembly: March 2022
Santa Fe College Professor (retired) Donna Waller

Assembly: February 2022
Mary Nutter & Ron Nutter

Assembly: January 2022
Michael Cohen, co-founder and advisory board member of Solar United Neighbors of Florida

Assembly: December 2021
Angela Betancourt 
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Assembly: November 2021
UF Associate Professor of History Dr. Paul Ortiz

Assembly: October 2021
Angela Pang

Assembly: September 2021
Master Gardener Julie Naim

Assembly: August 2021
Lexi Green, manager of Cuscowilla (formerly Camp McConnell)
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Assembly: July 2021
Peggy Macdonald,  public historian and adjunct professor at Stetson University and Indian River State College

​Assembly: June 2021
Pippa Evans, co-founder of Sunday Assembly

Assembly: May 2021
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, one of the directors of Our Santa Fe River.
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Assembly: April 2021
Barbara Oberlander, Santa Fe College professor emerita of history

Assembly: March 2021
Bethan O’Connor, Peaceful Paths

Assembly: Feb. 21, 2021
Jim Gross, Executive Director of Florida Defenders of the Environment
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Assembly: Jan. 17, 2021  
Community organizer Dorothy Benson
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Assembly Sunday  Dec.  20, 2020  
Noor Alexander: Non-violent communication
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Assembly Sunday  Nov.  15, 2020
Jan Tucci: Celebrating the Winter Solstice

Assembly Sunday  Oct.  18, 2020  
Diane Dimperio:  Health Care for Florida

Assembly Sunday  Sept.  20, 2020
Donna Waller:  Sept. 20 2020 Ballot Amendments

Assembly Sunday  Aug.  16, 2020 
Angie Brown:  Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Assembly Sunday July 19, 2020
Jon DeCarmine: Grace Market Place in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic 

Assembly Sunday June 21, 2020 
Jean Chalmers: Ranked Choice Voting 

Assembly Sunday May 17, 2020
Dr. Mona Gil de Gibaja, President of United Way of North Central Florida

Assembly Sunday April 19, 2020 

Assembly Sunday Mar. 15, 2020
Postponed to a later date
Lynn Leverty: "Milestones with Multiple Meanings in Women's History"

Assembly Sunday Feb. 16, 2020 
Kristen Young: "The 2020 Census"

Assembly Sunday Jan. 19, 2020
John Moran: “Santa Fe River Bill Of Rights (SAFEBOR)"

Assembly Sunday Dec. 15, 2019
Gary Steele: "The Gypsy Family Circus of 1933”

Assembly Sunday Nov. 17, 2019
Carl Ramey: "The State of the News Business”

Assembly Sunday Oct. 20, 2019
Ron Nutter: "Remarks from a local chocolatier"

Assembly Sunday Sept. 15, 2019
Felicia Lee, Ph.D. "A Case Study of Sweetwater Wetlands Park"
  
Assembly Sunday August 18, 2019
Debbie Lewis: "Library resources—So much more than books"
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Assembly Sunday July 21, 2019
Gina Hawkins: "The Economic and Social Impact of Litter"

Assembly Sunday June 16, 2019
Sandy Parker: "The Green New Deal"

Assembly Sunday May. 19, 2019
Eileen Roy: “The School Privatization Movement”

Assembly Sunday Apr. 21, 2019
Freddie Johnson: "What's a Body to Do?" 

Assembly Sunday March 17, 2019
Jim Gross: “Florida’s Water Crisis—How We Got Here, How We Get Out"

Assembly Sunday Feb. 17, 2019
Dr Dan Batcheldor: “Astronomy Saves the World:
Securing our Future through Exploration and Education.”

Assembly Sunday Jan. 20, 2019
Joey Conner, LCSW: "Transgender 101"

Assembly Sunday Dec. 16, 2018
Dr. Ira Fischler: Separation of Church and State—An Update

Assembly Sunday Nov. 18, 2018
Dr. Barbara Oberlander: 'Eleanor Roosevelt"

Assembly Sunday Oct. 21, 2018
Tony Delisle Center for Independent Living

Assembly Sunday Sept. 16, 2018
Kathryn Tancig of the Alachua Conservation Trust: “How Alachua County Is Conserving
Environmentally Sensitive Land”

Assembly Sunday Aug. 19, 2018
Kari Bagnall, Director of the Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary

Assembly Sunday July 15, 2018
Nathan Crabbe, News Editor, Gainesville Sun

Assembly Sunday June 17, 2018
Donna Waller: "The Constitutional Revision Commission"

Assembly Sunday May 20, 2018
Dr. Zoharah Simmons, UF Assistant Professor of Religion, "A Black Power Feminist Remembers Dr. King"

Assembly Sunday April 15, 2018
Joan Anderson: ”Baker Interfaith Friends”

Assembly Sunday March 18, 2018 
Lynne Westmoreland: "My Religion Is Kindness"

Assembly Sunday February 18, 2018
Elizabeth McCulloch, J.D. UF Levin College of Law, “Poverty and the Law” 

Assembly Sunday January 21, 2018
Justin Davis, M.D. "Everything You Need to Know about MMJ in FL" 

Assembly Sunday December 17, 2017
Barbara Oberlander: "Michelle Obama: A Historic First Lady"

Assembly Sunday November 19, 2017
Dr. Peter Waylen, UF Professor of Geography: "Climate Change—Why do Scientists Believe in it"

Assembly Sunday October 15, 2017
Dan Harmeling: "An Activist & UF Student (Class of 1964) Recalls The Civil Rights Movement in Gainesville During the 1960's"

Assembly Sunday September 17, 2017
Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe: "UF / City Partnerships, Vision Zero, Complete Communities"

Assembly Sunday August 20, 2017
Jon DeCarmine, Operations Director of GRACE Marketplace: "GRACE, Housing First, and Homelessness in Alachua County" 

Memorial Service for Sally Youngs, August 6, 2017
Sally Youngs was a founding member of Sunday Assembly Gainesville.

Assembly Sunday July 18, 2017
Dr. Ronald Dalton, UF Emeritus Professor of Engineering: "From a Solar Eclipse to Our Place In Our Specific Universe"

Assembly Sunday June 18, 2017
Bob Tancig: "Citizenship in a Time of Climate Change"

Assembly Sunday May 21, 2017
Ann Kinnebrew, Playback Theater

Assembly Sunday April 16, 2017
SAGA Vice President Jan Tucci: "How I Learned to Love Children's Literature—Kids' Books for Adults"

Assembly Sunday Mar. 19, 2017
Hutch Hutchinson, Alachua County Commissioner: "Five Big Things Happening in Alachua County"

Assembly Sunday Feb. 19, 2017
Dr. Kenneth D. Meyer, Executive Director of the Avian Research and Conservation Institute: "Imperiled Birds of Florida"

Assembly Sunday Jan. 15, 2017
Peggy Macdonald of  The Matheson History Museum: "Sarah Robb: Alachua County's First Female Doctor"

Assembly Sunday Dec. 18 ,2016
Dr. Paul Ortiz: "Kurt Vonnegut's War—The Humanities and Combat"

Assembly Sunday Nov. 20, 2016
Dr. Steven Benner: ​"The Origins of Life in the Universe"
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Assembly Sunday Oct. 16, 2016
Former Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan: "Local Politics—Stories from the Field"

Assembly Sunday Sept. 18, 2016
Dr. Barbara Oberlander: "Who IS this Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg?"

Assembly Sunday Aug. 21, 2016
C. Norris Moon, L.M.H.C: "Mindfulness"

Assembly Sunday July 17, 2016

Assembly Sunday June 19, 2016

Assembly Sunday May 15, 2016

Dr. Michael Leslie, UF Associate Professor of International/Intercultural ​Communication: "Keys To Success"
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Assembly Sunday April 17, 2016
James Albury, Director of the Santa Fe College Planetarium: "What In The Universe . . . ?"
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Assembly Sunday March 20, 2016
Associate Vice President for Operations for UF IFAS & Former Gainesville City Commissioner Dr. Jeanna Mastrodicasa: "Women In Civic Life".

Assembly Sunday Feb. 21, 2016
Professor Elizabeth Lada: “Wonders of our Universe.” 
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​SAGA Launch Sunday Jan. 17, 2016
​The inaugural Sunday Assembly Gainesville assembly featured Dr. Ira Fishler: "Separation of  Church & State"
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