Global Summit XVIII
Join us, for our 18th year of serving the Erie community with a new Global Summit lineup of groundbreaking researchers, writers, and presenters. The JES invites speakers from around the world to speak on a broad range of globally important issues each year as part of our Global Summit Speaker Series.
View the entire lineup here: Global Summit XVIII

The Mingle Project: Restoring Civility in Our Society through Gathering

November 12th,2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker:  Global Summit 2026

Speaker: Michael Smerconish

Location: Gannon University Waldron Campus Center - 628 Peach St, Erie, PA 16501 

Date/Time: Thursday, November 12th 7:00-8:30pm

Admission: Early Bird Pricing - General Admission $25.75 / Preferred Seating $51.50

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Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host on SiriusXM's POTUS channel and the host of CNN's Smerconish. A longtime columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, he is the author of eight books, including the novel TALK, whose television rights were optioned by Warner Brothers, and Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns. He has donated the proceeds from five of his books to charity. His one-man performance, Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking, debuted on Hulu and is now streaming on Amazon, Apple, and Google. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Smerconish lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife, where they raised four children.

 

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