Cuyahoga Community College

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Tri-C not only has that big campus here, they have a big building that they just the perfect corporate.

The corporate campus has a massive auditorium, which is fucking— The

J.C. Thornton auditorium.

This Thursday at 6 p.m., a nonpartisan civic engagement initiative, Sing Out for Democracy, is hoping to unite Clevelanders through song and remind all of us that in a democracy, power belongs to the people.

The concert will be held at the Simon and Rose Mandel Theater on Tri-C's Eastern Campus.

Joining us today to discuss how Sing Out for Democracy came to be and how she thinks it will bring people together is Amy Morgenstern, founder of Sing Out for Democracy and president of Mainstream Enterprises.

Amy, thanks for being with us.

All that we, our differences and what is dividing us, the escalating partisanship, lack of trust, is affecting how we come together to solve problems.

There are solutions if we put politics aside and we unite to give voice to what we agree on, the small d democracy, what that means, what the founders put in place when they established this country, we can move forward more productively on behalf of future generations.

You've been planning this particular event that again is happening this Thursday on the Tri-C Eastern Campus for about nine months.

Was there a particular moment that inspired you to set up this particular performance?

But then, Kirsten, the minute I graduated high school, started at community college, I got introduced to the newsroom.

So I started off in print news as a feature writer for The Voice newspaper at my alma mater, Cuyahoga Community College.

And then let's just say again, life would pivot where I would become editor in chief by a fluke.

And the reason why I call it a fluke is because the same thing happened.

I attended Bedford High School, where I edited the newspaper, was an honour student, a cheerleader and prom queen.

I worked at Higby's department store, studied at Cuyahoga Community College and in 1986 was crowned Miss Ohio USA.

I was the first runner-up in the Miss USA contest that same year and placed sixth in the Miss World pageant.

I moved to New York and was cast in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever before playing Eddie Murphy's love interest in the romantic comedy Boomerang and Sharon Stone in the Flintstones movie.

We get calls all the time from people who are from countries all around the world saying, can you connect me to people from other countries or we need help with this.

We're at Cleveland State and Case Western and Tri-C working with international students who want to make Cleveland their permanent home.

And then we get the case of the woman who comes to our office from Guinea with six kids.

And she came here because she was in a very dangerous situation back home.

And she's raising her kids off of Kinsman.

And she's studying to be a nurse at Tri-C.

When she got here, she could only speak French.

Now her English is better than mine.