Previously on Tuesday Talks

A Monthly Virtual Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating Residents.

Previously on Tuesday Talks

Washington Post writer David Ignatius in Washington, DC on Sept 27, 2017

March 21, 2023 | 7PM

David Ignatius, Editor, Columnist, and Novelist

ESPIONAGE & TECHNOLOGY

In-person at the Cleveland Park Library – No Recording

DC native and Cleveland Park resident David Ignatius joined The Washington Post in 1986 after reporting for the Wall Street Journal. Since 1988, he has written a twice-weekly foreign affairs column. He has won numerous awards and supervised the Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

David also has written 11 spy novels, most recently The Palladin. Another novel, Body of Lies, was made into a movie in 2008. Espionage and technology is the subject of his three most recent novels and another that is in progress.

February 21, 2023 | IN PERSON AT THE CLEVELAND PARK LIBRARY – No Recording

Mark Bucher, Founder, Feed the Fridge, Co-owner, Medium Rare
ADDRESSING HUNGER IN DC

Mark Bucher is a successful restaurateur and a change maker At the beginning of the pandemic, he created Feed the Fridge to combat hunger in the metro region while helping struggling restaurants stay in business. Bucher installs refrigerators at recreation centers and schools in the region’s food deserts and pays local restaurants to stock them with up to 100 freshly prepared meals every day. Those meals are available to anyone who’s hungry. Feed the Fridge has served more than 7 million meals to those dealing with food insecurity. It also provided much-needed baby formula during the recent shortage.

January 17, 2023 | IN PERSON AT THE CLEVELAND PARK LIBRARY – No Recording

In conjunction with the Cleveland Park Historical Society

Camilla Carpenter, Former Executive Director, Cleveland Park Historical Society

An Architectural History: Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland Park

Camilla Carpenter moved to Cleveland Park from New York City in 2000. Prior to her work with CPHS, Camilla spent most of her career in television, working at ABC News, Home Box Office, and Discovery Communications.

Camilla is an enthusiast of architectural history, and a big fan of the variety of architectural styles that enrich the neighborhood.  She is a firm believer that historic buildings and streetscapes should be celebrated and provide us with a deeper understanding of how the past relates to our present built environment.

November 15, 2022
IN PERSON AT THE CLEVELAND PARK LIBRARY – No Recording

Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for The New York Times
Susan Glasser, Staff writer for The New Yorker
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.

Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach. Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of its weekly “Letter from Trump’s Washington,” as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. They also coauthored The Man Who Ran Washington, a New York Times bestseller.

The Divider is the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale – an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.

October 18, 2022, Matt Wuerker, Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist at Politico, “If you’re not confused, you’re not thinking clearly: Political cartooning in our upside-down times.”

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/U19YrPTYXRo

Matt Wuerker was an original staff member at Politico where he is staff cartoonist and illustrator. He
has been awarded the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Prize, the Herblock Prize, and he received
the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

Prior to joining Politico, he was a successful freelance cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. Over the past
40 years, his cartoons have been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines. His work is
syndicated internationally by Andrews McMeel Syndicate and the Cartoonist Group.

He is the former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and serves on the board
of the Herblock Foundation, He is the president of the board for Cartoonist Rights Network
International.

September 20, 2022 – Judith Waxman, Historian, “A History of Woodley Park”

Watch the Event Here: https://youtu.be/E8GzOd7_dSk

Did you know that US Presidents lived in Woodley Park? That enslaved people lived here, though African Americans were prohibited from buying or renting residences? That the US Supreme Court played a role in shaping the Woodley neighborhood?

Register at: https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/1316 

Judy Waxman is the unofficial historian of Woodley Park. In 2005, she led the Woodley Park team to rehabilitate  the eight call boxes in the community.  In 2015 she became an oral historian and has worked  on projects including The DC Collaborative, The Women’s March, the National Family Planning and  Reproductive Health Association’s 50th Anniversary, the Veteran Feminists of America, and the Pioneer Histories Project.

Judy is also one of the nation’s leading healthcare law and policy analysts. She has consulted with hundreds of state and national organizations to improve the health of women and other  vulnerable groups. She worked as a senior staff leader in health and reproductive rights policy at the 

National Women’s Law Center, Families USA, the National Health Law Program, and the Department of Health and Human Services. From 1989-1991, she was a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care that created a universal health care plan that evolved into the Affordable Care Act. Starting in 2015, she taught Reproductive Health Policy and Law and a survey course on women’s health at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.   

May 10, 2022 – Peggy Robin, Cleveland Park Listserv Moderator,  in conversation with Barr Weiner, “Never a Dull Moment: Behind the Curtain of the Cleveland Park Listserv”

Watch the Event Here: https://youtu.be/jRXeBRWOXrs

Peggy Robin is the moderator of the Cleveland Park Listserv, the largest online neighborhood forum in the US, now in its 23rd year with more than 12,400 members. She co-founded it and co-publishes it with her husband Bill Adler.  Peggy will discuss the origins of the listserv, how it’s grown and changed over the years, and how to make the best use of its features. She also will reveal some of the stranger things that have happened, including a real-life as well as cyber-stalker, multiple adventures with hackers and shills, and the true story of the Cuban exiles and their attempt to bombard the Listserv with “Free Elian Gonzales” messages.

Peggy is the author, co-author, or compiler of more than a dozen nonfiction books, including: Saving the Neighborhood: You Can Fight Developers and Win!; The Safe Nanny Handbook; How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient; and Kids’ Letters to President Obama . She has appeared on The Today Show, The Maury Povich Show, The Diane Rehm Show, and Jeopardy. 

Peggy graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and has lived in Cleveland Park since 1976.

Peggy will be in conversation with John Barlow Weiner, President of the Cleveland Park Citizens Association.  Barr grew up in New York City and received his BA from Princeton and his JD from Columbia University School of Law. He has lived in Cleveland Park for the past nine years. He is Assistant Director for Policy in the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Combination Products.

April 19, 2022 – Margarita Calderón, Educator, In conversation with Amy Henderson, Historian: “Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities and Classrooms” 

Watch the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8i7_UhKeg 

In her new best-selling book, Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities and Classrooms, educator Margarita Calderón argues that strong community partnerships are essential to re-envision how English is taught today.  She will describe a lively re-invention of learning English created through networks of families, teachers, and administrators and tell compelling student stories and anecdotes that convey how education can be reimagined for English learners, including the recent influx of Afghan refugees.  Hers is an unapologetic call for action to overturn past inequities and create a vibrant learning community that will benefit all.

Margarita Calderón is a Professor Emerita/Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and development projects focus on Multilingual Learners/English learners’ quality instruction and have been funded by US Department of Education, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Labor and Carnegie Corporation of New York. This is her 15th book.

She will be in conversation with cultural historian Amy Henderson.

As Historian of the National Portrait Gallery, Amy wrote books and curated exhibitions on broadcasting, Broadway, Hollywood, and dance. She continues to write reviews and essays, notably for ARTES MAGAZINE. 

Both live at the Kennedy-Warren.

March 15, 2022

Bari Biern & Scott Sedar – A Life in the Arts

When two people fall in love in a play’s rehearsal, as Bari Biern and Scott Sedar did, it’s a showmance. They married in 1983 after appearing together in a play in Dupont Circle at the New Playwright’s Theatre. Bari and Scott discussed their 46 years in the theater, from what it was like when they moved to DC in the 1970s to the current theater scene and how adaptability and resilience have been a key to their life in the arts. 

Watch the Event here: https://youtu.be/kZSxvRW2qJY