Speakers

David Chih-Hsiang Wu, Director-General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Franscisco, is the highest ranking Taiwanese official in the Bay Area. He will focus on why Taiwan matters to the world and to the United States specifically, and remind us of our longtime partnership with Taiwan.

Since 2001, Wu has held a variety of positions in Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including service in Switzerland and the Netherlands. David graduated from the National Cengchi University in 1996, and pursued advanced studies in diplomacy and law at Oxford and Tufts.

On November 12th, join Los Altos Rotarians for a celebration honoring Veterans.  We will celebrate Veterans' Day / Remembrance Day together in the Garden House and by Zoom.

Patrick Henry has inspired Americans for centuries with his fiery speech demanding liberty, but his vision was more complex than modern Americans might realize. Henry asserted liberty not just as individual freedom but as a collective right of states to govern themselves without being swallowed by a “great consolidated government.” 

David Kennedy is an American historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the former director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history.

Kennedy is responsible for the recent editions of the popular history textbook, The American Pageant. He is also the current editor of the Oxford History of the United States series. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his first book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History from 1995 to 1996. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).

Dr. Patel is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Children's Health. She is also the Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health which brings together 58 medical societies and 30 state based climate and health groups to make health at the center of climate action. She is a national expert on climate and health and appears frequently in national media outlets in addition to being published in the New York Times, LA Times, and USA Today. She maintains an active clinical practice as a hospital-based pediatrician caring for infants in the NICU and hospitalized children.