SHARE YOUR VOICE, BRING YOUR EXPERTISE, TEACH FROM EXPERIENCE
We are a community passionate about learning, connecting, and engaging with international issues that promotes understanding by hosting forums with diverse, global voices and perspectives.
For the past 40 years, ICFRC has partnered with experts and those with lived experience from communities across the world, from educational institutions to government representatives, researchers and thought leaders, we have helped provide a platform for individuals to share and educate about the most pressing issues facing our global and local communities.
Each event season, we host events each week that are attending in-person, streamed online, and broadcast on television and through podcasts to bring important, inspiring, and thought-provoking content to communities that encourages them to think deeply and take action. We are always open to new connections and partnerships with individuals across the world who are interested in sharing their story, work, and research on a wide range of topics.
Benefits of speaking with ICFRC include:
ICFRC's audience is predominately located in America's heartland, the Midwest, and are eager to hear from subject matter experts with lived and professional experience who are leaders in their field from communities worldwide. Founded as a "town group" with a close relationship with the University of Iowa, ICFRC has drawn members, partners, and leaders from those affiliated with the UI and individuals and organizations from Iowa City and the surrounding area. Your audience is intergenerational, well-educated, intellectually curious, and interested in nearby cultures and countries worldwide. Increasingly, this group is diversifying—we aspire, as the statement below affirms, to be inclusive of the broad cross-section of people that live and work across the state.
- Partnering with a respected, Midwestern organization with 40 years of experience covering diverse topics with well known speakers from around the world.
- Adding your name to an esteemed group of speakers such as: former president Barack Obama, current US president Joe Biden, Senator John Edwards, and Governor Bill Richardson.
- Having a new platform to share your story that includes social media, podcast, streaming, and broadcast television coverage.
- Receiving a recorded copy of your presentation to use later.
- Informing local audiences on how to understand and have an impact on global issues.
ICFRC's audience is predominately located in America's heartland, the Midwest, and are eager to hear from subject matter experts with lived and professional experience who are leaders in their field from communities worldwide. Founded as a "town group" with a close relationship with the University of Iowa, ICFRC has drawn members, partners, and leaders from those affiliated with the UI and individuals and organizations from Iowa City and the surrounding area. Your audience is intergenerational, well-educated, intellectually curious, and interested in nearby cultures and countries worldwide. Increasingly, this group is diversifying—we aspire, as the statement below affirms, to be inclusive of the broad cross-section of people that live and work across the state.
If you are interested in joining us as a speaker, we encourage you to reach out. We are looking for new speakers all year long.
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We look forward to hearing from you and are excited by what possibilities lay ahead as we work together to elevate voices and raise awareness around international issues while fostering global engagement.
