Name: September Lunch & Learn
Start: 2025-09-10T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-10T13:00:00-05:00
Location: The Waterfront Restaurant and Tavern

Please join us for this Lunch and Learn webinar. Our topic is “ Beyond the Bridge: Solutions to Homelessness”. Register by end of day Thursday, Sept. 4 at lwvlacrosse.org/program to reserve lunch and receive a Zoom link for virtual attendance. Lunch is $20, or you can attend the 12:00 p.m. program only for free. A recording of the program will be posted on our website the day after the live event. Pre-paid lunches are nonrefundable. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. We hope you can attend!
This program provides an opportunity for a virtual conversation with Don Sawyer and Tim Hashko, creators of "Beyond the Bridge: Solutions to Homelessness", as well as La Crosse native James Mathy, Milwaukee County Housing Administrator.
Their powerful documentary about effective strategies to eliminate homelessness includes the Housing First approach that has seen success in Milwaukee. Sawyer and Hashko will be joined by James Mathy, Milwaukee County Housing Administrator. The League’s lunch program is a precursor to an October 14 Weber Center screening of Beyond the Bridge in support of the La Crosse County/City Pathways Home program.
Speakers:
Don Sawyer, Producer/Director
Sawyer, the film's director, founded A Bigger Vision Films in 2014. Sawyer produced, directed and co-wrote the 2016 film "UNDER THE BRIDGE: The Criminalization of Homelessness" and won Best Hoosier Lens award at the Indy Film Fest. He and Tim Hashko received the 2022 Stewart B. McKinney award from the National Homelessness Law Center for their films on homelessness.
Tim Hashko, Cinematographer
Tim is the cinematographer and editor for A Bigger Vision Films. Tim shot both drone and ground footage used in "UNDER THE BRIDGE: The Criminalization of Homelessness." In addition, he was the cinematographer on the 2018 film "MY FRIEND MICKEY: Common Decency and The American Dream," as well as the director of photography on the REELZ Channel series "HOW TO SURVIVE A MURDER."
James Mathy, Milwaukee County Housing Administrator
James is the Housing Administrator of the Milwaukee County Housing Division. He is responsible for the management of Milwaukee County's Community Development Block Grant funds, HOME funds, Milwaukee County's Housing Authority, Continuum of Care Homeless Programs, and Special Needs Housing programs. He is the author of Milwaukee County's Plan to End Chronic Homelessness leading to a 45 percent reduction in overall homelessness since 2015 and Milwaukee County remains on pace to be the largest county in the nation to end chronic homelessness by the end of 2018.