Kansas City Puzzle
This puzzle features the art of local Kansas City artist Charlie Podrebarac, whose work has been featured in newspapers and magazines the world over.
Featuring an array of vibrant Kansas City landmarks and icons, this puzzle is a fun way to bring the city of fountains home with you after ComNet24.
Shuttlecock-pattern socks from Nelson-Atkins Museum
The shuttlecock – an emblem of Kansas City, and a main element of ComNet24 branding – was made iconic by the Nelson-Atkins museum’s installation commissioned in 1994.
You’ll get a chance to see the World’s Largest Shuttlecock at the ComNet24 Welcome Reception, and can take home a souvenir that will let you sport these shuttlecock-patterned socks from the Nelson-Atkins year-round.
The Moth: How to Tell a Story
ComNet24 Learning Lab presenter Kate Tellers is co-author of How to Tell a Story. In the book you will uncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers including Elizabeth Gilbert, Malcolm Gladwell, Amanda Gorman, Padma Lakshmi, Hasan Minhaj, Tig Notaro, Krista Tippett, John Turturro, and more. Whether your goal is to make it to The Moth stage, deliver the perfect wedding toast, wow clients at a business dinner, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview, be a hit at parties, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, stories are essential.
Fifteen Cents On The Dollar: How Americans Made The Black-White Wealth Gap
ComNet24 Keynote Speaker, Ebony Reed is based in Kansas City and is the Chief Strategy Officer of The Marshall Project, and coauthor of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap. This book is a sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system through public and private actions that created today’s Black-white wealth gap.
Kansas City Monarchs 1942 Replica baseball cap
The Kansas City Monarchs were one of the Negro Leagues’ most famous and successful clubs for 37 years between 1920-1962.
They were the Negro Leagues’ first “world champions” in the organzation’s inaugural World Series in 1924, and captured their second world championship in the first edition of the reinstated World Series in ‘42.
This cap is a replica of the Monarch’s Home uniform from 1942, from the Negro League Baseball Museum (which is located just a few blocks from where the Negro League was formed in 1920).