Past Speakers - 2022
 
 
  December 26, 2022       DARK    
  December 19, 2022   DARK    
  December 12, 2022   West Bay Opera Singers   Musical Selections
  December 5, 2022   Christian Martine, Senior Product Manager, Glassdoor   Steps to Improve Your Digital Security, from Novice to Savvy
  November 28, 2022   Robert Freeman, founder of The Global Uplift Project   The Global Uplift Project
  November 21, 2022   Heidi Kühn, Founder & CEO, Roots of Peace   Roots of Peace: Turning Mines into Vines - Replacing Minefields with Vineyards and Orchards
  November 14, 2022   Corneila Weiss, 2015 Rotary Peace Fellow and former US Air Force Colonel, Judge Advocat   Gender Strategies in War
  November 7, 2022   Iris Korol, Brian Steen, and Julie Jerome.   Long Time Member Talks
  October 31, 2022   Jennifer Mercieca, Professor of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University   Polarization, Propaganda, and Communication That's Good for Democracy
  October 24, 2022   William Gould IV, Professor of Law, Stanford University   Diary of a Contraband - The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
  October 17, 2022   Thomas W. Kellerman, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and League of Women Voters   Pros and Cons on Ballot Propositions
  October 10, 2022   Savita Vaidhyanathan, District Governor, Rotary District 5170   Imagine Rotary
  October 3, 2022   Bonnie Packer, Moderator   Palo Alto City Council Candidates Forum
  September 26, 2022   Tom Fingar, Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University   China and US-China Relations: How Bad Is It?
  September 19, 2022   Bernadine Fong, Interim President, Foothill College   Status and Challenges for Foothill College
  September 12, 2022   Bruce Winterhof, Geoff Ball, Rick Block   New Member Talks
  September 5, 2022   DARK    
  August 29, 2022   Gloria Hom, Educator and Community Leader   The Bayside Cannery: the Story of Thomas Foon Chew
  August 22, 2022   Grateful Garment Project   Hands on Sleeves up project
  August 15, 2022   Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology, Stanford University   American Democracy Imperiled: Threats and Remedies
  August 8, 2022   John Leshy, Professor Emeritus, UC Hastings College of Law   Our Common Ground, A History of America's Public Lands
  August 1, 2022   Daniel Ho, Stanford Professor of Law and Political Science, Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab)   Unbreaking Bureaucracy
  July 25, 2022   Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies   Liberalism and Its Discontents
  July 18, 2022   Coss Marte, Founder, Second Chance Studios   From Overweight Inmate to Employer of formerly incarcerated
  July 11, 2022   Board of Directors   Club Assembly
  July 4, 2022   DARK    
  June 27, 2022   Debunking of President Cash    
  June 20, 2022   Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science, UCLA   Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
  June 13, 2022   Tammerlin Drummund, communications strategist, ACLU of Northern California; creator, host and writer, "Gold Chains" podcast   California’s Hidden Slavery History
  June 6, 2022   Sheryl Klein, COO, Alta Housing   Affordable Housing
  May 30, 2022   DARK    
  May 23, 2022   Chesley Douglas, Dave Smullin, and Bob McCowan   Long Time Member Talks
  May 16, 2022   Felicia Marcus, Water Policy Group and Wm C Landreth Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Water in the West Program    Rising to Resilience in California Water: How are we doing and how do we get there?
  May 9, 2022   John Hutar, President and CEO, San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau   San Francisco Peninsula Tourism Update
  May 2, 2022   Jeannet Kiessling, Boardmember, Neighbors Abroad and Founder of Kleine Herzen    Neighbors Abroad and the Ukrainian Child Emergency Fund
  April 25, 2022   Elise DeMarzo, Public Art Program Director, City of Palo Alto   Public Art in Palo Alto
  April 18, 2022   Erik Jensen, Professor, Stanford Law School   Seven Myths about Afghanistan
  April 11, 2022   Recipients of 2022 Grants   Palo Alto Rotary Club Grants in Action 
  April 4, 2022   Ambassador Steven Pifer, Research Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and former Ambassador to Ukraine   Ukraine
  March 28, 2022   Karen Eggleston, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies   Cobots in Japan and what they mean for the future of healthcare in the U.S.
  March 21, 2022   Christina Chu and Ed Lauing   New Member Talks
  March 14, 2022   Ed Shikada, Palo Alto City Manager   Current and Upcoming Challenges for Palo Alto
  March 7, 2022   Linda Coble, 1st female Pres. of Honolulu Rotary Club, 1st female anchor of CBS Honolulu, 1st femail District Governor in District 5000   Breaking Ceilings in Rotary and Beyond
  February 28, 2022   Judy Miner, Chancellor of Foothill DeAnza Community College District   Issues facing community colleges
  February 21, 2022   DARK    
  February 14, 2022   Steve Schmidt, founder of Home Energy Analytics   Home Energy Conservation Ideas for Reducing Carbon Footprint
  February 7, 2022   LaDoris Cordell, Judge ret'd   "Her Honor" Memoir
  January 31, 2022   Pat Burt, Mayor of Palo Alto   Issues and Goals for Palo Alto 2022
  January 24, 2022   Larry Klein, Tom DuBois, and Ken Sanchez   New Member Talks
  January 17, 2022   Grateful Garment Project   Hands on Sleeves up project
  January 10, 2022   Ahmad Thomas, CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group   The Pledge 25x25 Initiative and other Racial Justice and Equity programs of SVLG
  January 3, 2022   Terri Givens, Political Science Professor, McGill University, Montreal  
Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides