This season on What Matters, we'll explore the impact of regional leadership organizations like CIVIC and their impact on everything around us.

This week, we profile the CIVIC Leadership Institute.  Its mission is to link proven leaders through service to Hampton Roads.

Joining host Cathy Lewis: Past and present members of CIVIC: Dan Bell, Captain Charles Melcher, and Alexis Swann. 

Cathy Lewis hosts What Matters 

Premieres June 18th at 8:30 p.m. on WHRO-TV 15 

Rebroadcasts during the week after Friday's premiere  

There's no question about it.  The National Tea Party movement is making a difference inside and outside of political circles everywhere.  A recent Washington Post/ABC poll found 27 percent of Americans say they are "supportive" of the movement, including 17 percent who are "strongly supportive."

What is the movement all about?  What does it hope to accomplish?

On this edition of What Matters, we’ll talk with leaders of the local Tea Party movement.

Joining host Cathy Lewis:  Karen Miner Hurd - founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party; Bishop E.W. Jackson, Sr. - President of STAND (Staying True To America’s National Destiny); and Robert Dean, chairman of the Tidewater Libertarian Party.

Cathy Lewis hosts What Matters 

Premieres June 11th at 8:30 p.m. on WHRO-TV 15 

Rebroadcasts during the week after Friday's premiere