Join Mississippi Today in person at Basil’s Downtown in Jackson, or livestream to see the first event in the Mississippi in the Know series. It will feature a conversation with the Lt. Governor. At 8:00 AM, Delbert Hosemann will moderate the discussion with Mississippi Today Editor in-Chief Adam Ganucheau. The event will be illustrated live by Marshall Ramsey, Mississippi Today Editor-at Large.
Join Mississippi Today in person at Basil’s Downtown in Jackson, or livestream via Facebook Live. The second event in the Mississippi in the Know series will be held on March 3, at 7:30 AM. It will feature a discussion on critical race theory with Von Gordon (executive director of the Alluvial Collective) and moderated at 8:00 AM by Molly Minta. The event will be illustrated live by Marshall Ramsey, Mississippi Today’s Editor-at-Large. Molly Minta published a piece detailing the views of students at the University of Mississippi Law School’s Law 743 class, which is the only one that teaches critical race theory in Mississippi. The Senate passed the only bill addressing critical race theory in the current legislative session in January. It is currently pending in Congress, where Speaker Philip Gunn holds almost complete control over what legislation dies or lives. If they wish to keep the bill alive, House leaders have until March 1st to pass it from committee. The bill will be killed if they fail to do so. Von Gordon, the executive director of Alluvial Collective (previously the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation), managed or coordinated the organization’s youth engagement programs. He also supported the community and capacity building efforts for almost a decade. The Alluvial Collective team works to eliminate inequity that is based on differences by cultivating belonging, wholeness and equity through affirming and equitable healing processes. Gordon believes in deep relationships between people who are capable of creating change and moving towards justice for individuals, communities, and organizations. He is a member of the Mississippi Statewide Afterschool Network and Operation Shoestring’s board of directors. He is also a member the W.K. He is a member of the W.K. He is also a member of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Community Advisory Councils and the Junior League of Jackson. Gordon worked previously in leadership and business development within the food and drink industries. He attended Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi.
Join Mississippi Today in person at Basil’s Downtown in Jackson, or livestream on Facebook Live. The third and final event in the Mississippi in the Know series will be held on March 24, at 7:30 a.m. and features Corey Miller (state economist and director at the University Research Center) discussing Medicaid expansion. The event will be illustrated live by Marshall Ramsey, Mississippi Today’s Editor-at-Large. Check out our most recent coverage on how Medicaid expansion will affect Mississippi moms, and babies. Corey Miller is an economist with more than 20 years experience. His research has been published in many peer-reviewed journals. His expertise includes the areas of agricultural policy and regional economics.
Miller is the state economist. His responsibilities include economic forecasting and socio-economic policy analysis. He also monitors state general fund revenue collections. Miller is the chair of the Revenue Estimating Group and works closely with the Legislative Budget Office, as well as other state agencies.
Miller also maintains the state’s Leading Economic Index. This index is used to forecast economic trends in Mississippi and evaluate the economy. Miller continues to edit Mississippi’s Business, which is a monthly publication that tracks performance of the state, national, and international economies. He also maintains Mississippi Economic Outlook, which is a quarterly publication that summarizes current forecasts for the state, and national, economies.
He is a Mississippian native and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agribusiness, both from Mississippi State University. He also took additional Ph.D. classes in economics at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Miller was an economist at URC for almost seven years immediately before he was selected as the State Economist. Miller was an instructor and research associate for 12 years at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University before he joined IHL.
