The Infrastructure of Possibility | Jeff Epstein | TEDxHunting Valley

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Cleveland was founded at the mouth of a river on a Great Lake, and the port that grew there supports 23,000 jobs that almost nobody thinks about. Port of Cleveland CEO Jeff Epstein uses three objects, an anchor, a jar of river mud, and a ship’s wheel, to show the work happening beneath the surface of a city. A port is not a place. It is a connector. Jeff Epstein is President and CEO of the Port of Cleveland, which supports more than 23,000 jobs and over $7 billion in annual economic activity on the Great Lakes. He previously led MidTown Cleveland and spent four years in Cleveland City Hall as the city's Chief of Integrated Development under Mayor Justin Bibb before taking the helm of the Port in 2025. He stepped onto the TEDxHuntingValley stage on one day's notice. His talk, “The Infrastructure of Possibility,” uses three objects, an anchor, a jar of river sediment, and a ship's wheel, to explain the most invisible engine in Cleveland: the 203 anchors holding up Irishtown Bend, the dre

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