The Oct. 3 session of Thursday Morning Roundtable will feature Jose Cossa, Seeds of Peace coordinator at InterFaith Works of Central New York. He will be accompanied by a teen panel. They will discuss reducing racial tension and violence in our schools and community.

Cossa holds a Ph.D. in cultural and educational policy studies from Loyola University in Chicago. He is the founder and senior consultant of research, monitoring, and evaluation at Maguiguane Consulting, in Maputo, Mozambique, and was a research associate in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

TMR meets from 8:15-9:15 a.m. at Drumlins, 800 Nottingham Rd, Syracuse.

TMR is a community program of University College of Syracuse University. For further information, contact Sandra Barrett, director of community programs, 315- 443-4846, email cps@syr.edu, or visit http://www.uc.syr.edu/community/tmr.  The TMR program is broadcast on WCNY-FM, 91.3 on Sundays at 8 p.m. and at www.wcny.org/radio/thursday-morning-roundtable.