Beyond Housing: COVID Relief and Looking Forward - Chris Krehmeyer | Hancock Symposium 2021

2021 Hancock Symposium executive session #3 by Chris Krehmeyer, President and CEO of Beyond Housing
, on "Beyond Housing: COVID Relief and Looking Forward." September 15, 2021, 1 pm in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury.
As CEO and founder of Beyond Housing, Chris will introduce his organization, including the place-based model, methodology, progression of the organization, and current multifaceted approach (e.g., departments, community engagement). He will then summarize the challenges over the years, with special concentration on COVID-19 relief efforts. After a brief discussion of housing insecurity - past, present, local, and national -Chris will help us look forward to future innovation that will impact his work as well as the region.
Chris Krehmeyer is the president and CEO of Beyond Housing, a nationally recognized organization in St. Louis, MO, that works to make communities better places to live. Krehmeyer has served Beyond Housing since 1993. The organization currently employs more than 100 full-time staff. Under Krehmeyer’s leadership, the organization created and engages in a comprehensive community development initiative called “24:1.” The initiative represents the 24 municipalities in the Normandy school district that share one vision for successful children, engaged families, and a strong community. Krehmeyer has been an adjunct faculty member at Washington University, taught at Webster University, and has been recognized by the Ethical Society of St. Louis, the NAACP, and the St. Louis Business Journal. He earned a degree in Urban Studies from Washington University, where he recently received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
The 2021 Hancock Symposium on "Beyond 2020: Finding Opportunity in an Age of Disruption" invited Westminster students to actively and creatively examine the disruptions of 2020 in order to cast a vision for our collective future. If we needed reminders that life will serve up challenges none of us would have predicted, the year 2020 provided plenty. The great pandemic, heated protests over racial injustice, and a disputed election dominated the headlines. But other great disruptions troubled us at least as much: some as global as environmental disasters, others as personal as the loss of a job or a loved one in the midst of COVID-19. Disruption is often painful, but with it comes opportunity. When the familiar ways forward are blocked, we explore new ways, whether in science and technology, business and finance, politics and justice, or even in how we imagine community and relationships. Beyond 2020, we have the chance to break new ground, letting go of old paradigms and embracing new, innovative ways of working and living together.
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