Catalyze 2025: Lisa Vickers (Speer Dream Foundation)

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.

Lisa Vickers, CEO of the Speer Dream Foundation, is setting ambitious goals for 2025, focusing on collaborative philanthropy and expanding successful educational initiatives in the Tampa Bay area.

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The Catalyst interviews 2024: Quote unquote

The long-form interview is part of every career journalist’s portfolio. With regard to arts and entertainment journalism, the writer will in time compose short stories, long stories, lists of hits, lists of flops, lists of “best bets,” year-end stories, weekend preview stories, event previews, event reviews, artist profiles, company profiles, straight news, pure features and … long-form interviews.

Looking back at 2024, it was a better-than-average year for lengthy musician Q&A interviews in the St. Pete Catalyst. We publish them in this format when the musician (or, in some cases, the actor or the comedian) is a particularly big-name artist. In all instances, the interviews were conducted and published in advance of a bay area performance.

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	City offices to close for New Year’s Day
	Pacific Counter to open new St. Pete location
	Report: Tampa Bay’s housing supply soars
	Catalyst taking New Year’s Day off