Speaker Date Topic
Katrina Bolduc Apr 25, 2024
National Midwifery Institute
National Midwifery Institute

Katrina Bolduc is a firm believer that a person’s pregnancy, labor, and birth are one of the most powerfully pivotal moments in their life. She honors family units and embraces individualized family centered care, while focusing on true informed decision making and consent, as well as comprehensive personalized care. 

Katrina received her Bachelors of Science Psychology Degree in 2009, and graduated from National Midwifery Institute in 2021. Katrina is a licensed Certified Professional Midwife. She has attended births and supported over 220 families since 2016, entering the birth field through prenatal yoga, doula services, and childbirth education. With a passion for helping others, Katrina fell in love with the aspect of supporting, encouraging, and helping others grow, with compassion, respect, and understanding.

Katrina is a wife, a mother of three incredible children, an ironman triathlete, lover of nature, animals and everything birth related.  With a heart for helping, and a passion for pregnancy, birth, and beyond she is dedicated to the field of midwifery and enjoys teaching and supporting healthcare workers and families alike.

Charlie Howard-Gibbon May 02, 2024
Redwood Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America
Redwood Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America

Charlie Howard-Gibbon is Council Scout Executive for the Redwood Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America, having started in Sonoma County in December 2016 after almost 7 years in a similar role in the Alameda Council.  Redwood Empire Council BSA serves over 1,100 youth through approximately 450 adult volunteers and 44 community partner organizations in various communities of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.

He began his Scouting professional career in 1983 with the San Francisco Bay Area Council, and then served the Mount Diablo Silverado Council, Monterey Bay Area Council and Alameda Council, totaling over 40 years of career service with the Boy Scouts of America. 

Charlie is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor and the Saint George Award.  Prior to his career start, he was in Scouting as a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and adult volunteer during college, now in Scouting for 57 years.  Charlie first became Scouting friends with our past member Del Raby in 1980 when they were together in the Order of the Arrow.  Charlie served as a pack and troop leader with his three children in Concord and Salinas from 1995 to 2010.

He has been a president and board member of three different organizations – a co-ed college service fraternity, a homeowners association, and a nonprofit for helping women during unplanned pregnancies.  He has also been a participating member of both the Knights of Columbus and the Alameda Elks Lodge.

Charlie has been in Rotary for all but 3 of the last 40 years, beginning as a 24 year-old in 1984 in the Rotary Club of Daly City.  During his 10 years in Rotary East Oakland, he served as a club director for 9 years, including 1 year each as club president and club foundation president.  He has also been an officer or director in 3 other previous Rotary clubs, and is currently member and director of the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa.  Charlie, his wife Bernadette and their three children are all Paul Harris Fellows.

Charlie enjoys outdoor activities, spectator sports, board games, and history.  He is especially interested in family history and genealogy, and he helps others with their family tree searches.

Amy Berry Jun 13, 2024
CEO of the Tahoe Fund
CEO of the Tahoe Fund

AMY BERRY, TAHOE FUND CEO
As Tahoe Fund CEO, Amy leads efforts to secure private funding and support from individuals, foundations and corporations for environmental improvement projects that improve Lake Tahoe.
Amy has raised more than $20 million from private donors helping to secure more than $80 million of public funding. The Tahoe Fund’s portfolio includes projects that restore lake clarity, enhance sustainable recreation, promote healthier forests, improve transportation, and inspire greater stewardship of the region.
In addition to helping ensure completion of more than 130 projects, she worked with 30+ partners to create the region’s first collaborative stewardship campaign, Take Care, to change the culture of caretaking in the Tahoe Region.
Prior to joining the Tahoe Fund, Amy was director of marketing and communications for the North American arm of renewable energy giant ACCIONA. In this role she was a member of the management committee and responsible for corporate branding, internal communications and product marketing. She led the company’s communications and stakeholder engagement activities for more than 1,00MW of wind and solar developments, and worked with industry groups to lobby federal and state leaders for policies to expand renewable energy throughout the US and Canada.
Amy began her career at Saatchi & Saatchi and Ogilvy & Mather in NYC. She has garnered attention for various brands in a variety of media outlets, including ABC’s “20/20”, NPR, and the New York Times. Her experience includes work with IBM, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, and the National Crime Prevention Council.
Amy was appointed to the Nevada Outdoor Recreation Advisory Council by Governors Sisolak and Lombardo and serves as the Vice-Chair. She is a federal appointee to the Lake Tahoe Federal Advisory Committee, received the "Spirit of the Lake" Award from the TRPA, a member of the International Women's Forum, and was named a Reno Gazette Journal “Twenty under 40” honoree. She volunteers with SOS Outreach as a mentor and serves on the Lake Tahoe School Board of Trustees.
She graduated from Brown University where she was an All-American sailor. You can often find her out exploring the trails or enjoying the Lake.

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