Jenalea (Jen-ah-lee) Randall (Ran-dell), District Governor 2023-24, has been a Rotarian since 2009 when she joined the Rotary Club of Topeka South. She has served in various roles including as Club President, Membership Chair, Club Service Chair, and Club Administration Chair, 2014-2015. At the district level, Jenalea served as the District Membership Chair from 2020 to 2022.
 
Jenalea graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri with a degree in public relations and Baker University with a master’s degree in business and marketing. Her career has focused on engaging communities, partners and other stakeholders through strategic, meaningful communications. She has worked in the non-profit sector, for state and federal governments, and corporate organizations. Currently she is the deputy director of communications for the Kansas Department for Children and Families.
 
In addition to her work, Jenalea is the past chair of the American Red Cross board of directors, past chair of the Greater Topeka Partnership’s Military Relations Council, past chair of the American Cancer Society’s Couture for Cancer, and has served in various leadership positions with other professional and community groups.
 
Jenalea has lived in Topeka for more than 22 years and grew up in Hartford, Kansas, located in Lyon county. She was married in 2007 to Tony Randall, who passed away in 2014 from brain cancer. Since his passing, Jenalea has engaged in cancer awareness and treatment fundraising and military activities that promote the well-being of service members and their families to honor Tony’s memory and service in the United States Army.
 

Rotary Club meeting: September 19, 2023, Tuesday 12:00 noon 

We are pleased to welcome Debbie Kennedy, CEO of the Wichita Children's Home as our September 19 speaker.  

 

Debbie Kennedy, MSN APRN-CNS, is CEO of the Wichita Children’s Home, which provides crisis care, foster care, counseling, street outreach, transitional living and other services to ensure that children and youth experiencing abuse, neglect, exploitation, loss and/or homelessness have the opportunity to heal and become self-actualized. She has 38 years of experience in health care, academia and non-profit leadership. She earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing from Wichita State University, where she spent many years teaching as a nurse educator and working as the CEO of the Wichita State Alumni Association. In 2014 she was named by the Wichita Business Journal as a Women in Business Honoree and in 2019 as a Woman Who Leads in Philanthropy. In 2016 Debbiereceived the Whitney M. Young Leadership Award from the Urban League of Kansas. TheVIP Wichita Magazine named her the “Everything Woman” in 2017 and in 2019 she was honored with the A.R.I.S.E. Sankofa Award (Keeping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream Alive). Under her leadership, the Wichita Children’s Home has built and moved into a new 13.6-acre campus, added Gerard House (for pregnant and parenting teens), Garver House (for human trafficked minor victims), Kidzcope (children’s bereavement program) and CrossRoads, an emergency shelter for young adults 18-24 experiencing homelessness - expanding therapeutic services to children and youth. She is married to Mike Kennedy, the “Voice of the Shockers,” and they have 4 children and 9 grandchildren.

 

For information on how to attend this meeting or join the Rotary Club of Community Action Against Human Trafficking please email President Sharon Sullivan at sharon.sullivan@washburn.edu.