Past Speakers - 2024
 
 
  December 30, 2024   DARK    
  December 23, 2024   DARK    
  December 16, 2024   Your Vocally-talented Fellow Rotarians and Pianist Theresa Ronan   A Holiday Sing-Along
  December 9, 2024   Kenneth N. Lee (Kulapradipa Dasa), Chaplain Associate, Office for Religious & Spiritual Life, Stanford University    Hindu Religious and Cultural Celebrations
  December 2, 2024   Elena Kadvany, SF Chronicle Food Reporter   Inside the Bay Area restaurant scene, from a local food writer
  November 25, 2024   Desiree Lyons, CEO of Namaste Direct   Namaste Direct, A World Community Service Project
  November 18, 2024   Garth Illingworth, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics UC Santa Cruz   Discoveries from the James Webb Telescope
  November 11, 2024   DARK    
  November 4, 2024   Jenna Daugherty, Trans Activist   How I went from a Christian fundamentalist kid to an agnostic trans activist 
  October 28, 2024   Mary Ann Gee, Mike Fogarty and Jake Yoo   New Member Talks
  October 21, 2024   Stephanie Crosby, Dean of Disability Resources and Veterans Resources, Foothill College   Disability Resources and Veterans Resources at Foothill College
  October 14, 2024   Bob Baranski, Seattle Rotarian   The Power of Rotary: A Lifeline in Crisis
  October 7, 2024   David Mineta, CEO, and Kennya Rodriguez, Mental Health First Aid Project Coordinator, Momentum for Health   What to Know and do About Behavioral Health Issues in Palo Alto
  September 30, 2024   Bill Johnson, Cash Alaee, and Joan Plastiras   Long Time Member Talks
  September 23, 2024   Henrietta Burroughs, Journalist, and US House Candidates Evan Low and Sam Liccardo   Candidates' Panel Moderated by Henrietta Burroughs
  September 16, 2024   Jill Duerig, District Governor   Our Rotary District 
  September 9, 2024   Gina Dalma, Former Executive VP Community Foundation Silicon Valley Foundation    Hispanic Heritage
  September 2, 2024   DARK    
  August 26, 2024   Gennady Sheyner, Journalist, and the Candidates for Palo Alto City Council   Candidates' Panel Moderated by Gennady Sheyner
  August 19, 2024   Hands-on, Sleeves Up project   Join us in restoring dignity to victims of sexual violence by building "dignity kits" for the Grateful Garment Project
  August 12, 2024   Corrina Gould, director, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust; spokeswoman and Tribal Chair, the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, and Melissa Nelson, board president, Sogorea Te' Land Trust; professor of Indigenous Sustainability, Arizona State University   The Land Back Movement and the West Berkeley Ohlone Shellmound Site
  August 5, 2024   Barbara McQuade, Professor, University of Michigan Law School and legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC   Speaking about her most recent book, "Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America"
  July 29, 2024   Mohan Gurunathan, Engineer and Food Systems Expert   Fight Climate Change with Diet Change
  July 22, 2024   Ullrich Schwertschlag, Jennifer Torai, and Greg Hood    New Member Talks
  July 15, 2024   Rebecca Geraldi and Board of Directors   Club Assembly
  July 8, 2024   Noelle Wilder, Deaf Actor and Dancer, ECE Teacher at California School for the Deaf   Accessibility in Performing Arts for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Performers
  July 1, 2024   DARK    
  June 24, 2024   DARK    
  June 17, 2024   Greer Stone, Mayor of Palo Alto    
  June 10, 2024   Daniel Nguyen, winner on Jeopardy! and Palo Alto High School math teacher   behind the scenes at Jeopardy
  June 3, 2024   Chop Keenan, Palo Alto Realtor   The Current Status and Future of Palo Alto Commercial Real Estate
  May 27, 2024   DARK    
  May 20, 2024   Bruce Gee and Local Grant Recipients   Your Rotary in Action: 2023-2024 Community Grants
  May 13, 2024   Ron Herman, Foothill College   Connecting with Cuba
  May 6, 2024   Amy Castro, Professor of the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania   Fighting Poverty with Guaranteed Income
  April 29, 2024   Diane Shader Smith, Writer, Speaker, Cystic Fibrosis Advocate   Love, Loss, and the search for a cure for Anti-Microbial Resistance
  April 22, 2024   Bill Liberatore and the Gunn Choir   Choral Selections
  April 15, 2024   Dean Batchelor, Director, City of Palo Alto Utilities    Meeting the Electricity needs of Palo Alto
  April 8, 2024   Steven Sloman, Brown University Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences   Decision Making in a Community of Knowledge
  April 1, 2024   Megan Swezey Fogarty, Senior Associate Vice President for Community Engagement, Stanford University   Stanford and Palo Alto: Driving More Purposeful Engagement
  March 25, 2024   Ron Gentile, PA Pickleball Club   Palo Alto Pickleball Club - “Arrive as a Stranger and Leave as a Friend”
  March 18, 2024   Ran Ran, Associate Professor of Political Science at Renmin University of China   China’s Green Dream and Its Implications on US-China Climate Change Cooperation
  March 11, 2024   Kaloma Smith, Pastor University AME Zion Church and Chair, Palo Alto Human Relations Commission   Why We Still Have Hope
  March 4, 2024   Scott Herhold, former reporter, editor and columnist for the San Jose Mercury News   1974 murder in Mem Chu: Murder Under God's Eye, about the 1974 murder in Stanford's Memorial Church
  February 26, 2024   Faisal Karimi, Senior Afghan Journalist and Knight Fellow   Media Under the Taliban Rule in Afghanistan: Capture Strategies and Challenges
  February 19, 2024   DARK    
  February 12, 2024   Larry Diamond   Prospects for Democracy in the US and Globally in this Year of Elections.
  February 5, 2024   Karen Law, Investor   Sustainability From an Investor Perspective
  January 29, 2024   Art Stauffer, Nancy Peters, and Hal Mickelson   Long Time Member Talks
  January 22, 2024   Katie Bandy, Dutch Slough Project Manager, California Department of Water Resources   The Dutch Slough Habitat Restoration Project
  January 15, 2024   Charlie Weidanz and LifeMoves   MLK Hands On Sleeves Up Project
  January 8, 2024   Hal Hershfield, UCLA Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making   Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today
  January 1, 2024   DARK