Black History Month Lunch & Learn: "Looking Back to Move Forward" with Rev. Benjamin Gohlstin

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar 2025-02-12 12:30:00 2025-02-12 13:30:00 Black History Month Lunch & Learn: "Looking Back to Move Forward" with Rev. Benjamin Gohlstin Event Description Advocating for Equity: Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Racism Social Work Practice Rev. Benjamin Gohlstin's talk, Looking Back to Move Forward, comes from the story of the Sankofa bird. Gohlstin is senior pastor of Cleveland’s Heritage Community Baptist Church in the Hough neighborhood and chair of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County. He is also the local radio host of WOVU 95.9 FM's Black Thought: The Spark, on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. Gohlstin was honored with the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland for his dedicated service as a Hunger Network Board Member, and was also named a lifetime Hunger Network co-founder and Board Member. He has received the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Lifetime Achievement Award from the Zeta Kappa Kappa Chapter and was named the 2023 Pastor of the Year from the Cleveland Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. There will be time for Q&A, and lunch and drinks will be provided for in-person attendees. Mandel Center | Room 108 11402 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44106 OR Zoom Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences America/New_York public

Event Format: Virtual

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Event Description

Advocating for Equity: Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Racism Social Work Practice

Rev. Benjamin Gohlstin's talk, Looking Back to Move Forward, comes from the story of the Sankofa bird.

Gohlstin is senior pastor of Cleveland’s Heritage Community Baptist Church in the Hough neighborhood and chair of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County. He is also the local radio host of WOVU 95.9 FM's Black Thought: The Spark, on Tuesdays at 1 p.m.

Gohlstin was honored with the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland for his dedicated service as a Hunger Network Board Member, and was also named a lifetime Hunger Network co-founder and Board Member. He has received the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Lifetime Achievement Award from the Zeta Kappa Kappa Chapter and was named the 2023 Pastor of the Year from the Cleveland Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

There will be time for Q&A, and lunch and drinks will be provided for in-person attendees.

Event Location

Mandel Center | Room 108

11402 Bellflower Road

Cleveland, OH 44106

OR

Zoom

Rev. Benjamin Gohlstin headshot