The session, titled "Real Florida: The State of Our Dreams in 2017", will be facilitated by Gray Mormino, Ph.D. and Jeff Klinkenberg.

Mormino is the USF St. Petersburg Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History and the co-director of the Florida Students Program. He is also an award winning author.

For his most recent book, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida, Mormino was awarded the Charlton Tebeau Prize by the Florida Historical Society.

Mormino received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and has taught at USF since 1977. In 2003 the Florida Humanities Council named him its first Humanist of the Year.

Jeff Klinkenberg is a native Floridian and an award winning Journalist. He has written for the The Miami News, Esquire, Outside, Travel and Leisure, Audubon and currently writes about Florida culture for the St. Petersburg Times.

He is the only two-time winner of the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the highest honor in state journalism, given annually to the writer with the best body of work by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and has received eight nominations for the Pulitzer Prize.

Every month Community Matters: Penny University Series recreates the atmosphere of an early European coffee-house by providing the opportunity for thoughtful discussion and reflection concerning present-day community issues.

Leadership requires vision. Vision is informed by study of the past. Both authors have written extensively about the heritage and traditions that we share as Floridians.

Please join them in a conversation as they project their vision ten years into the future. What will be lost? What will be preserved? What can we do?

Community Matters: Penny University Series is sponsored by the USF St. Petersburg Wally and Louise Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and the USF Alumni Association.

To R.S.V.P. for this event please contact Katie Giglio, Alumni Coordinator, at 727-873-4561 or kgiglio@spadmin.usf.edu.