JCC MetroWest

JCC MetroWest presents, Heather Cabot, "Level Up: Rise Above the Hid­den Forces Hold­ing Your Busi­ness Back" In-person at the J! By Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodg­son with Heather Cabot – A must-read guide for small busi­ness own­ers nav­i­gat­ing a crit­i­cal turn­ing point: when you either lev­el up or give up. It’s nev­er been eas­i­er to start a busi­ness – and it’s nev­er been hard­er to scale it. Half of new busi­ness­es in Amer­i­ca don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodg­son want to help today’s…

JCC MetroWest presents, Jen Maxfield, "More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unfor­get­table News Stories" In-person at the J! Based on her two-decade career as a local TV news reporter in New York City, Jen Max­field takes read­ers on a dra­mat­ic ride-along with her in the live truck, from the moment she gets the call to head to break­ing news, to arriv­ing at chaot­ic scenes, to knock­ing on doors of fam­i­lies who are griev­ing the loss of a loved one. Max­field revis­its ten…

JCC MetroWest presents, Howard Blum, "The Spy Who Knew Too Much" In-person at the J! This true sto­ry begins on an Autumn morn­ing in 1978. A sail­boat runs aground on the Chesa­peake Bay. The coast guard finds bul­lets scat­tered on the deck, top secret gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments in the gal­ley, and a clas­si­fied trans­mit­ter used to com­mu­ni­cate with satellites. There’s no sign of the boat’s own­er, John Pais­ley, a high-rank­ing CIA offi­cial. Ten days lat­er an unrec­og­niz­able body wrapped in chains floats to the sur­face. The CIA has no fin­ger­print…