Past Speakers - 2021
 
 
December 27, 2021
 
DARK
   
 
December 20, 2021
 
DARK
   
 
December 13, 2021
 
Bill Liberatore and the Gunn High School Choir
 
Choral Music, recorded
 
December 6, 2021
 
Scott McGrew, Business Reporter for NBC Bay Area
 
Reporting on Bay Area Business
 
November 29, 2021
 
Dr. Odette Harris, Neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford
 
Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury
 
November 22, 2021
 
Ralph Adams, Bill Fogarty, Mike Couch
 
Long Term Member Talks
 
November 15, 2021
 
Sara Cody, Director, County of Santa Clara Public Health Department
 
County experience with covid
 
November 8, 2021
 
Ryan Brown, Managing Director for Measurement at the Rice University Doerr Institute for New Leaders
 
Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche
 
November 1, 2021
 
Cal Mann, member of Silicon Valley Rotary Club and recent Peace Corps Volunteer
 
Rotary-Peace Corps MOU and Collaborations
 
October 25, 2021
 
Mike Reynolds and WCS Committee
 
PA Rotary's WCS Projects
 
October 18, 2021
 
Fran Ulmer, Chair Board of Directors, Nature Conservancy
 
Why do Rapid Changes in the Arctic Matter?
 
October 11, 2021
 
Richard Flanders, District Governor
 
Rotary District 5170
 
October 4, 2021
 
Robert Pearl, MD, Stanford University Medical and Business School Professor, former CEO of Kaiser Permanente
 
Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients
 
September 27, 2021
 
John Sebes, Chief Technology Officer at TrustTheVote
 
Five Ways to Rig American Elections Legally, and How Everyone Can Respond
 
September 20, 2021
 
Anne Cribbs, Cari Templeton, Jeff Yen
 
New Member Talks
 
September 13, 2021
 
FBI Agent Michael Gimbel 
 
FBI response to the Gilroy Garlic Festival Active Shooter Incident
 
September 6, 2021
 
DARK
   
 
August 30, 2021
 
Karla Dailey, City of Palo Alto
 
Water Supply Planning for a Resilient Palo Alto
 
August 23, 2021
 
All Members attending for Hands on Project at Homewood Suites
 
Hands on Project
 
August 16, 2021
 
Russell Jeung, Asian American Studies Professor at SF State and Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate
 
Anti-Asian American Pacific Islander Hate in the Time of COVID-19
 
August 9, 2021
 
Cristina Cismas Florea, Gunn High School Math Teacher and fournder of BEAM
 
Reimagine Education – Innovation at the High School level
 
August 2, 2021
 
Karen Kienzle, Director, Palo Alto Art Center and Lecturer, Museum Studies, San Francisco State University
 
From Virtual to Visiting—Trends in Museums through a Palo Alto Lens
 
July 26, 2021
 
Board of Directors et al
 
New President Club Assembly 
 
July 19, 2021
 
Sandy Rosenthal, Founder, Levees.org
 
Words Whispered in Water - engineering mistakes that led to Katrina flooding
 
July 12, 2021
 
Barb Coll, Bird watcher
 
Bird Watching
 
July 5, 2021
 
DEBUNKING
   
 
June 21, 2021
 
Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology, University of British Columbia 
 
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
 
June 14, 2021
 
Renee DiResta, Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory of the Freeman Spogli Institute
 
The Long Fuse: Disinformation and Democracy in the 2020 Election
 
June 7, 2021
 
Eugene Whitlock, Asst. Vice Chancellor-Human Resources/Chief People & Culture Officer at UC Berkeley
 
How to Talk About Race
 
May 31, 2021
 
DARK
   
 
May 24, 2021
 
Heath Packard, Major Gifts Officer, Island Conservation
 
Island Conservation; stories of hope & innovation
 
May 17, 2021
 
Gen H. R. McMaster, Hoover Institute Fellow and Former National Security Advisor
 
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World - A conversation with H.R. McMaster
 
May 10, 2021
 
Joop Verbaken, Karae Lisle, Jackie Wheeler
 
New Member Talks
 
May 3, 2021
 
Marshall Burke, Stanford Earth System Science Professor, Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment
 
Climate Change's Fallout: Economics, Security, and Food
 
April 26, 2021
 
Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
 
Three Myths About American Politics
 
April 19, 2021
 
Bill Johnson and others
 
Community Grant Recipients
 
April 12, 2021
 
Emily Arnold-Fernández, President& CEO of Asylum Access (AA)
 
Asylum Challenges around the World
 
April 5, 2021
 
Clayborne Carson, Stanford History Professor, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute
 
Where Do We Go From Here? King's Unanswered Question
 
March 29, 2021
 
DARK for Evening Hats Off to Rotary 
   
 
March 22, 2021
 
Arlene Blum, Mountaineer and founder of Green Science Policy Institute
 
Breaking trail: Mountains & Molecules
 
March 15, 2021
 
Stephen Manley, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge
 
Behavioral Health Court
 
March 8, 2021
 
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Business School Finance Professor
 
Cryptocurrencies Could Eliminate Banking’s Easiest Moneymaker
 
March 1, 2021
 
Tom DuBois, Mayor, City of Palo Alto
 
What does the year 2021 hold for the City of Palo Alto
 
February 22, 2021
 
Walter Moore, ED of POST
 
Challenges and Vision of POST
 
February 15, 2021
 
DARK
   
 
February 8, 2021
 
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
 
Changes and Challenges in Universities: A President's Perspective
 
February 1, 2021
 
Rennie Velcheva, Kim Bomar, and Spencer Hsu
 
New Member Talks
 
January 25, 2021
 
James Eggers, Director, Loma Prieta Chapter of Sierra Club
 
Equity and Inclusion at Sierra Club and Elsewhere
 
January 18, 2021
 
John Hibbing, Political Science Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 
The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump's Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era
 
January 11, 2021
 
Joan Ryan, journalist and author
 
Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
 
January 4, 2021
 
Lynn Orr, former Under Secretary for Science and Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy from 2014 to 2017
 
Clean Energy and Climate: Key Challenges for the Biden Administration