Don’t miss this special corporate-sponsored event where you can greet old friends and make new ones. There will be an open bar and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
“Political Update and the Impact of the 2012 Election”
Mike Allen is the chief White House correspondent for Politico. Time named him as one of the top 140 Twitter feeds shaping the day's debate while a New York Times Sunday magazine cover story dubbed him "The Man the White House Wakes Up To." Vanity Fair named Allen to its 2011 and 2012 Top 50 New Establishment and Powers That Be list. The co-author of a series of e-books focusing on the 2012 presidential campaign, Allen created the daily newsletter, Morning Money, a must read from Cabinet Secretaries to CEOs of the Fortune 500. Prior to joining Politico, Allen worked at Time Magazine where he was their White House correspondent, and he spent six years at The Washington Post where he covered President Bush's first term; Capitol Hill; campaign finance; and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. He also has worked for The New York Times, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Free Lance-Star. Allen grew up in Orange County, California and has a B.A. from Washington and Lee University where he majored in politics and journalism.
Dr. Scott Morris is founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis. The Center, which opened in 1987 to provide primary health care to low-income, uninsured working people of Memphis, seeks to reclaim the Church’s biblical commitment to care for our bodies and spirits. This health care ministry is supported by a broad base of the faith and medical communities. It provides care to more than 55,000 patients in its Clinic, which now includes primary care, dentistry, optometry, counseling and social work services. The Center also has developed its wellness and faith community outreach ministries where the best disease prevention efforts of medicine are combined with the pastoral and spiritual care of the faith community. Church Health Center Wellness won the 2003 Innovations in Prevention Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Morris, who writes a monthly column for The Commercial Appeal, has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University, and M.D. from Emory University. He is a board certified family practice physician and an ordained United Methodist Church minister.
