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Catalyze 2025: Mayor Ken Welch

St. Petersburg is at a pivotal point in its 137-year history. Mayor Ken Welch must guide the city through an unprecedented hurricane season’s aftermath and help create a more resilient future.

He noted the city is still in recovery mode 10 weeks after Hurricane Milton, but the focus will turn to rebuilding in 2025. Welch expects necessary, yet sometimes difficult, conversations with constituents regarding the path forward.

Catalyze 2025: Maeven Rogers (Sustainability Director)

Catalyze 2025: Maeven Rogers (Sustainability Director)

Catalyze 2025: Amy Foster (City of St. Petersburg)

Catalyze 2025: Amy Foster (City of St. Petersburg)

Catalyze 2025: John Graydon Smith (MOSI)

Catalyze 2025: John Graydon Smith (MOSI)

Catalyze 2025: Celeste Davis (Arts, Culture Director)

Catalyze 2025: Celeste Davis (Arts, Culture Director)

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Catalyze 2025: Mark Aeling (Warehouse Arts District Association)

We’re asking thought leaders, business people and creatives to talk about the upcoming new year and give us catalyzing ideas for making St. Pete a better place to live. What should our city look like? What are their hopes, their plans, their problem-solving ideas? This is Catalyze 2025.

There are a couple of important things on Mark Aeling’s mind as the calendar page flips to 2025. One, of course, is the sheer devastation caused by the Florida governor’s decision to cancel all fiscal year arts funding, followed by the wall-to-wall destruction and misery of that rapacious brother-and-sister duo, Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

City offices to close for New Year’s Day

Jan 06 @ 07:00 PM

This is the Year

Jan 07 @ 06:00 PM

Workshop: Vision Board Collage

Jan 11 @ 10:30 AM

Cat Yoga Class

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Catalyze 2025: Ignacio Barrón Viela (The Florida Orchestra)
The Shuffle

Vicki Caruana

New Company

St. Petersburg College

Former Company

SUNY Potsdam

New Position

Assessment Director, College of Education

Former Position

Professor of Special Education

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