Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
City Workers Who Work For You
Announcing The Citizen’s 2024 Integrity Icons, city employees who serve us all with the highest trust, care, equality and ethics. Come celebrate these heroes with us on May 23
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy“People Can Be Right About Different Things”
Checking in with a writer and photographer at Penn’s Daily Pennsylvanian, on covering protests, a presidential resignation and the pro-Gaza encampment on campus this year
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyTotal Impact Summit
The theme of ImpactPHL’s annual gathering of socially-conscious investors is “Modeling the Future Economy.” Learn what that means — and how Philly can benefit — on May 1 and 2
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavySue Jacobson on Going For It
The businesswoman and former Chamber of Commerce board chair won the Chamber’s prestigious Paradigm Award for women last month. Her speech is a font of leadership wisdom we should all heed
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyWhat Philly Can Learn from America’s Fastest Growing City
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker talks to our podcast hosts, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, about how she’s guiding her Texas city through a population boom that benefits everyone. Hint: It’s just common sense
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyArt Is a Verb That Means Change
The Forman Arts Initiative hired its first executive director, Adjoa Jones de Almeida, to shape their vision for an exhibit and engagement space centering their vast art collection and local community. Just don’t call it a museum
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyEarly Morning Rave for Voting
Daybreaker co-founder Radha Agrawal brings her non-alcoholic, early morning dance party back to Philly to celebrate our freedom to celebrate (and vote). Join the fun outside City Hall on April 12
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyVivek Babu
Thanks to the efforts led by Drexel’s undergraduate student president, the university will for the first time give students the day off for voting and engagement on Election Day 2024, the latest in a string of election advocacy successes.
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyIs the PPD Transparent Now?
In the aftermath of January’s police killing of Andrew Spencer, the Philadelphia Police Department did something kind of unheard of in the recent past. Could this be … change?
By Roxanne Patel ShepelavyMike Innocenzo
For his work helping to stand up the Civic Coalition to Save Lives, the PECO CEO and Chamber of Commerce Board Chair is this year’s Lewis Katz Corporate Citizen of the Year
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy