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Dr. Ferki Ferati, President of the Jefferson Educational Society, presenting the
lineup for Global Summit XV on Aug. 16, 2023. Photo by Joel Natalie,
TalkErie.com.

JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY LEADERSHIP PARTICIPATES IN AND PRESENT AT SEMINAR
ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AT OECD HEADQUARTERS IN PARIS, WHILE THE THINK TANK HOSTS AN
INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR VISITING ERIE

On Wednesday, Oct. 2, the Jefferson Educational Society’s President, Dr. Ferki
Ferati, and Vice President, Ben Speggen, participated in and presented at
“Transforming Places: The Role of Social Capital in Place Transformation.” The
event, hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, including
the United States, representing more than $54 trillion global GDP, and was held
at the organization’s headquarters in Paris, and was part of its “Unpacking the
‘Soft’ Infrastructure of Transformation’ seminar series.

Drawing from the research of his doctoral dissertation, Ferati presented, “How a
Community Think Tank is Transforming a ‘Civic Desert’” to outline and showcase
the work and impact of the JES, a nonpartisan, community-based think tank
promoting civic engagement through civic education across the JES’s various
divisions – from its programming to its publications to its civic leadership
academy.

“It was an honor to have been invited to participate in such an informative and
engaging dialogue with members of the OECD’s team and fellow experts, scholars,
and practitioners,” Ferati said. “We know that to truly, and meaningfully, help
regions transform, grow, and prosper, it takes more than measuring the impact
and investment of ‘hard’ infrastructure, like economic development; it takes
social capital building – the cultivation of personal relationships, social
network support, civic engagement, and trust and cooperation. We’ve seen its
power and potential in Erie and believe our work and mission can help inform
others nationally and globally.”

“If we have the chance to help others realize similar transformation by sharing
our story, it is our duty to not keep what it is we are doing and have
accomplished here a secret to ourselves,” Speggen said. “We are grateful to have
had the opportunity to discuss the work of the JES and progress being made in
Erie at the international level while also learning about other work and from
other models we may explore locally to continue to drive progress.”

The invitation to engage with the OECD and others stemmed from the JES’s
partnership with and participation in the Heartlands Transformation Network, a
transatlantic collaborative partnership dedicated towards closing geographic
economic divides and reconnecting residents of rural and former industrial
heartland communities to economic opportunity, which the think tank joined
earlier this year. Network members work to return community pride and optimism
about the future, and diminish the appeal of polarizing, resentment-driven,
isolationist and ethnonationalist political movements that threaten our
democracies.

The JES’s involvement in the Heartlands Transformation Network also helped to
facilitate a stop along an international study tour, “Transatlantic Dialogue on
the Industrial Heartlands: Shaping the Future.” The tour, organized by Das
Progressive Zentrum, a think tank based in Berlin, in cooperation with
Progressive Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.); The Chicago Council on Global
Affairs; and the BMW Center for Contemporary German and European Studies at
Georgetown University aims to “shape the transition to a cleaner, greener,
modern global economy in the industrial heartlands in Germany and the United
States through transatlantic dialogue and exchange of best practices between
experienced actors across politics, the private sector, and civil society on
both sides of the Atlantic,” according to the organizations.

An integral part of the project includes the U.S. study tour through the Rust
Belt and Midwest, which began in Pittsburgh and traveled to Erie, then
Youngstown, Ohio and Detroit. Study tour participants included 12 non-resident
fellows – young experts, practitioners, and professionals from the United States
and Germany – with the aim to meet with local decisionmakers and leading civic
and civil figures, as well as the private sector, to learn how they navigate
industrial revitalization in their respective regions. This included meetings
with representatives from the JES’s Board of Trustees as well as JES team
members, and the JES’s Civic Leadership Academy alumni network.

“It was a tremendous opportunity to gather folks from our more than 220-strong
alumni network to meet with the cohort of national and international fellows to
discuss the opportunities in a place like Erie, Pennsylvania, and how that
compares and contrasts with the lived experiences in the places they call home
as we learned about the towns, cities, and regions they represent,” said Tamer
Fahmy, an IT Administrator at Erie Insurance and President of the JES’s Civic
Leadership Academy Network. “We are energized from the conversations had and
look forward to continuing to foster these newly formed relationships.”

“Among the various roles the JES provides, the JES team values its contribution
to the community not just as ‘connector’ but as ‘multiplier’,” said Chelsea
Oliver, Director of Marketing and Community Engagement at the JES. “We take
seriously our mission to serve as platform to connect people with ideas in
meaningful ways — whether locally, nationally, or internationally, as we explore
our commonalities and learn from our differences.”

While in Erie Monday, Sept. 30 and Tuesday, Oct. 1, the fellows also met with
representatives from the Erie’s Black Wall Street, the Erie Downtown Development
Corporation, the Erie County Redevelopment Authority, and Penn State Behrend and
the Northwest Pennsylvania Innovation Beehive Network among others. The fellows
will continue their research and produce their findings in the near future.

The Heartlands Transformation Network, its learning exchanges, convenings,
events, study tours, presentations, publications, and other learning products
are conducted with partners including the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg
College, the Brookings Institution; the Georgetown University BMW Center for
German and European Studies; the Ruhrkonferenz of North-Rhine Westphalia; Policy
Manchester at the University of Manchester, U.K.; the University Allianz Ruhr;
the German Consulate General in Chicago; the University of Michigan; the
European Commission Directorate of Regional and Urban Policy; and the Committee
of the Regions of the European Union, among others.


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