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New Member Talks
May 10, 2019
Join us this Friday for another one of our favorite programs, our new member talks. This week we will get to know a little more about two new outstanding members, Paul Krasttiger and Cindy Hofen Colonel Paul Krattiger, representing the US Army, is a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Paul graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. He was commissioned as an armor officer and served assignments throughout the continental United States and Germany and operational assignments in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and South Korea. Paul commanded the 1st Battalion, 5th US Cavalry in the 1st Cavalry Division from 2014-2016. Prior to his fellowship at Hoover, he served as the Armor Branch Chief in the US Army Human Resources Command, managing almost four thousand armor officers in the active army. He earned a master of engineering management from Northwestern University and then served as an instructor and later assistant professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the US Military Academy. His research at the Hoover Institution focuses on the role of the US Education System and its impact on National Security. Upon completion of his time at Hoover, Paul will assume command of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. He enjoys hunting, fishing, skiing, and spending time with his wife and daughters above all! Cindy Hofen is the owner/manager of Managing Moves and More, which is a service catering to seniors wanting to age in place and to moving seniors from their homes to more appropriate living quarters. Cindy grew up in San Diego, graduated from U. C. Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics,then the Thunderbird School in Arizona with a Master Degree in International Management. She spent 2 years living in Barcelona and is fluent in Spanish. Her corporate career - 15 years - was spent at Abbot Labs initially in finance, then in sales and marketing in various cities. After timeout to help raise two daughters Cindy exercised her entrepreneurial skills to found her current company - Managing Moves and More. She is a member of the Mountain View and Los Altos Chambers of Commerce, is on the Avenidas Board of Directors, and is a former Trustee of the Mountain View Public Library. She loves working with seniors, travel, a good book club, and hiking. |
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Stop the Bleed Campagin
May 17, 2019
Join us Friday when Dr. David Spain and Michele Woodfall will be speaking to us about the “Stop the Bleed Campaign”. Motivated by the 2012 tragedy in Sandy Hook and multiple tragedies that have occurred in the ensuing years, what has become known as the Hartford Consensus was convened to bring together leaders from law enforcement, the federal government, and the medical community to improve survivability from manmade or natural mass casualty events. The resulting injuries from these events generally present with severe bleeding which, if left unattended, can result in death. The participants of the Hartford Consensus concluded that by providing first responders (law enforcement) and civilian bystanders the skills and basic tools to stop uncontrolled bleeding in an emergency situation, lives would be saved. Civilians need basic training in Bleeding Control principles so they are able to provide immediate, frontline aid until first responders are able to take over care of an injured person. Due to many situations, there may be a delay between the time of injury and the time a first responder is on the scene. Without civilian intervention in these circumstances, preventable deaths will occur. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma is leading the effort to save lives by teaching the civilian population to provide vital initial response to stop uncontrolled bleeding in emergency situations. This is accomplished by the development of a comprehensive and sustainable bleeding control education and information program targeted to civilians. The Stanford Healthcare Trauma Team has participated in these trainings and will describe the program as well as their experiences with the training. Dr. David A. Spain is the David L. Gregg, MD Professor and Chief of Trauma/Critical care surgery: a position he has held since 2001. He is the Associate Division Chief, General Surgery; Director, Surgical Specialties Clinic; Trauma Medical Director, Stanford Healthcare; Faculty, Goodman Simulation Center, Department of Surgery. His clinical areas of specialty are emergency and elective general surgery, trauma and critical care. His research focus is assessment of clinical care, systems of care and assessment of stress response and PTSD after trauma. He is the current President-elect of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He is the editor of the new textbook Scientific American's Critical Care of the Surgical Patient. He has been awarded the General Surgery Chief Residents Award, Stanford (2018, 2010),Teaching Award, Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency (2004 and 2008). He graduated from Medical school, Wayne State University 1986, Board Certification: General Surgery, American Board of Surgery (1993), Board Certification: Surgical Critical Care, American Board of Surgery (1996). Michelle "Shelly" Woodfall MS RN CEN CCRN is the Director, Trauma & Stroke / Clinical Nurse Specialist / Trauma Service/Stroke Service. She has been a nurse at Stanford for over 30 years. She graduated from UCSF with Master's in Physiological Nursing -Licensed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist specializing in Critical Care & Trauma. |
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Stablecoins: An Important Application of Blockchains
Jun. 14, 2019
Please join us Friday when our speaker will be our own Steven Becker. If you have been wondering about the arrival of cryptocurrency and what it portends for the greenbacks under your mattress, Steven should be able to help explain where we are headed. One direction is stablecoins which are defined as “cryptocurrencies designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin, relative to some "stable" asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to a currency, or to exchange traded commodities (such as precious metals or industrial metals). Stablecoins redeemable in commodities are said to be backed, whereas those leveraging fiat money or other cryptocurrencies are referred to as unbacked.” Steven Becker is the President and COO of the Maker Foundation. The organization behind facilitating the development of MakerDAO. MakerDAO is a community and a blockchain protocol that generates Dai, the world’s first fully functional collateralized and decentralized digital cash. Steven is responsible for strategic business operations, partnerships, and marketing. An alternative investment professional with 20 years of experience, Steven owned and managed an alternative investment consulting company for six years prior to joining MakerDAO. In this role, he developed risk and investment management solutions through joint ventures in the UK as well as running a proprietary options and futures portfolio in the US. Furthermore, Steven previously was an owner and manager of a diversified financial services company, a company whose hedge fund was awarded for best risk-adjusted performance during the financial crisis. The private equity and securities financing arm of the company completed international deals with Areva, Rolls-Royce, Metropolitan West, and CalPERS along with a number of local resource deals of which one was listed. Steven has also been a market risk manager and interest rate derivatives trader for an investment bank before joining a startup securities financing and lending company that attempted to create a securities lending exchange. Steven is Chartered as an Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) by the CAIA Association and certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and remains a member of both associations. Steven is also a member of the Palo Alto University Rotary club. He has a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance, Financial Accounting and Economics and has completed post-graduate work in Financial Engineering all from the University of Cape Town. |
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How Peninsula Scouts’ New Sustainability Programs Are Minimize Our Environmental Community Footprint
Jun. 21, 2019
Please join us Friday as we welcome Scott Harmon as our speaker. How do we minimize our environmental community footprint? Our Peninsula Scouts’ new sustainability programs are leading the way. Scott is the Sustainability Program Founder for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). He worked with a team of Eagle Scouts to develop a series of programs BSA could embrace to integrate sustainability into the national program. Scott collaborated with the BSA President to determine the right starting point and was then chartered with developing the Sustainability Merit Badge to create a common language and understanding of sustainability within scouting. In coming up with the new Merit Badge he recruited nine authors to help write the merit badge book. 26,000 have earned the award since 2013. As the Sustainability Advisor for the Boy Scouts of America, Scott is developing a sustainability strategy and executing projects within that strategy. He brings to this position his experience as a Silicon Valley Sustainability and Business Development executive. In 2008 Scott’s's son Jon, an Eagle Scout, opened his father's eyes to the urgent environmental problems facing the world. The following year Scott formed a consulting firm called Terra Villicus (Earth Steward) and began helping first the Boy Scouts and later, private companies with high leverage strategies to move the needle on sustainability. That change in worldview ignited Scott's passion to make a difference by pulling together teams of stakeholders to first create and then launch the sustainability merit badge at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree. Scott is also a Silicon Valley business development executive. Early in his career, he worked for TRW, Intel and Fairchild and since has focused on venture-backed start-ups in the semiconductor, systems and energy efficiency markets. He is a charter member of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Peninsula Clean Energy, the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Company providing renewable energy to half of the cities in Silicon Valley. Scott holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from Pepperdine University, has participated in the Harvard Sustainability Leadership Program and is an Eagle Scout. |
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Bruce Karney: Stepping up on Climate Change
Jul. 12, 2019
Please join us on Friday when our speaker will be knowledge management consultant Bruce Karney. Bruce is s a retired marketing professional who has lived in Mountain View since 1981. In 2007 he led a city-wide group of 119 Mountain View homeowners who purchased solar panels at a 35% discount. He subsequently joined SolarCity when it was a small startup to lead group purchasing programs in other cities. Bruce retired from the solar industry in 2012 and is now a full-time environmental activist. In 2008 and again in 2017 he was elected as Chair of Mountain View's Environmental Sustainability Task Force (ESTF). The recommendations from the 2008 Task Force provided the basis for the City's Environmental Sustainability Action Plans from 2009 to 2018, and the recommendations from the second Task Force provide a pathway for achieving the City's goals for 2019-2030. Bruce championed the creation of Carbon Free Silicon Valley (CFSV) to bring together environmental advocates from San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. He serves on the Board of CFSV. He has a BS in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford and an MS in Management Science from UC Berkeley. He is also a graduate of Leadership Mountain View and Acterra's "Be the Change" programs, and has held several leadership roles in the Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association. Bruce's first job after college was at SRI International where he worked as a research assistant to a team studying the negative income tax, now known as Universal Basic Income. From 1981-2005 he worked for HP in Palo Alto, Cupertino and Mountain View in marketing, education and training, and knowledge management. |
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The Scandinavian Model - What Is It All About?
Jul. 19, 2019
Please join us on Friday when it will be our pleasure to welcome the Consul General of Denmark Katrine Paaby Joensen. Many - from President Trump to Bernie Sanders - have an opinion about the so-called ‘Scandinavian Model’. But what is it all the fuss about? Katrine will provide insights into characteristics of Denmark, a typical Scandinavian welfare state; tiny, prosperous, green and among the happiest countries in the world”. She will be touching upon economics, policy, sustainability and the peculiar cultural traits of the Danes, which includes a high level of trust. She shall endeavor to give a brief – and hopefully a bit inspiring - insight into a way of life, which is somewhat different than in the US and which (both rightly and wrongly) attracts some attention these days. Katrine is a career diplomat with more than 20 years’ experience promoting Danish political and commercial interests globally. She is now heading the Danish diplomatic representation in Silicon Valley, building bridges between policy makers and innovative ecosystems, assisting companies and promoting knowledge and growth in Denmark. Before taking up the post in Silicon Valley, Katrine developed global export and innovation strategies for the Trade Council in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen. Katrine has worked with conflict resolution, security policy, development support and economic diplomacy. She began her career in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has also been posted to South Africa and Ghana where she worked to promote sustainable development and political relations. Katrine holds a M.sc. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, including studies at the University of Cape Town. |
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Stopping Bots for 2020 and Beyond
Jul. 26, 2019
Please join us on Friday when our speaker will be Aidan McCarty, who is currently pursuing a career at the intersection of science, business, and politics. Identity fraud is wreaking havoc on American democracy. Fake accounts on social media are fueling misinformation campaigns both foreign and domestic, making it easier than ever to meddle in our politics. Fake messages are flooding representatives and federal agencies, drowning out the opinions of real Americans. For example, the FCC received 21.7 million public comments about net neutrality in 2017, but Pew Research found that 94% of them were fake or duplicate. The Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into this last December. New technology can address these problems by helping individuals verify their identities and take action as verified constituents. These advances promise not only to power a more resilient political system, but to fundamentally change how identity is handled online and offline by putting people in control of their personal information. Aidan McCarty studied Biochemistry at Stanford University and earned a 4.2 GPA, top 25 in his class. He dropped out after his Junior year as the co-founder of ePluribus, a seed funded startup, on a mission to build a more secure and unified democracy. Aidan has experience across a wide range of organizations connecting tech, society, and government. He was recently on the teaching staff for Stanford’s Hacking4Defense, an immersive program that connects teams of students with a DoD sponsor to solve some of the toughest AI, energy, and cybersecurity problems. He has also served as Head of SENSA Labs, the top social entrepreneurship incubator at Stanford that has helped to launch companies like ArtsUp and DoNotPay. |
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Survivors of Homelessness and Human Trafficking Rise Together Across The Globe
Aug. 02, 2019
Please join us Friday morning when our speaker will be Carmel Jud. Carmel is the founder and executive director of Rising International. One evening Carmel Jud reached over to the pile of books stacked at the side of her bed and read one question that changed her life. “How are you best suited to serve humanity?” Two years later Carmel and her husband sold almost everything they owned, moved into a donated barn and launched Rising International. Rising International is the first nonprofit in the world to use the home party business model to contribute to solving extreme poverty; both locally and abroad. Carmel’s innovative idea for alleviating poverty using a $185 billion direct sales model has earned her much recognition and several awards, including Huffington Post’s “Greatest Person of the Day.” She opened for Melinda Gates at a TEDx event, was named 50/50 Leadership’s “Woman of the World,” garnered first place in the Cruz Cares Social Innovation Competition, won the Silicon Valley Community Impact Award, and is a proud recipient of the prestigious Ashoka Changemaker Award. Since its inception, Rising International has supported 22,000 women and children living in the most dangerous and remote places on Earth. Today, Rising works with women in more than 20 developing countries. Part of its mission is to focus on areas of the world where it’s the hardest to be alive as woman. From an early age Carmel Jud did daring things. At age 15 she was living on her own, and after attending high school for two years, she founded an award-winning advertising and market research firm. In the 20-year history of the company, Carmel led CJCG from a start-up to a sought-after firm working with Fortune 500 companies. After receiving a tip about a child who was sold into human trafficking, Carmel spearheaded the 2014 launch of the Coalition to End Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. The Coalition includes more than 40 organizations, businesses and law enforcement agencies now working together at the forefront of a localized movement to end human trafficking—an ambitious but not impossible mission, as Carmel has learned that sometimes the most important change is the kind that comes from daring to try. Carmel will share how Rising International is enabling women surviving homelessness, gender-based violence and human trafficking to connect with other survivors around the globe. Through the power of entrepreneurship they help each other to rise. |
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Therapies in Epilepsy
Aug. 09, 2019
Please join us Friday morning when our speaker will be Dr. Scheherazade Le. Dr. Le is a Neurologist with subspecialty expertise in seizure disorders at the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Neurologists diagnose and treat disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and the involuntary nervous system that controls the heart, lungs and other organs. They treat headaches, stroke, dementia, seizures, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders and neuromuscular diseases. She earned her B.A. from Berkeley in Political Science, completed her residency and fellowship training at Stanford, and received her MD from UCSF. Her talk will focus on surgical treatments and devices for epilepsy. Clinical research interests include biosensors and devices in epilepsy, intracranial neurophysiology, autoimmune epilepsy, and novel intra-operative monitoring techniques. |
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Feed Their Read: Why Access to the Right Books Builds Better Readers
Aug. 23, 2019
Please join us this Friday morning when our guest speaker will be Lea Anne Borders explaining why access to the right books can build better readers. By fourth grade, 63% of children in the U.S. are reading below grade level. These children will continue to struggle in school, and are four times more likely than their peers to leave high school without a diploma. Success in reading, like many endeavors, can be tied to practice. The more you read, the better you get at reading. So the issue becomes one of motivation. Decades of research have identified three key levers that motivate children to read – personal relevance, leveling, and choice. Bookelicious, a new e-commerce company founded by Lea Anne Borders, is designed to put these levers into practice. At bookelicious.com, children can easily find and purchase titles that best match their interests and reading abilities, selecting from a professionally curated collection of great books for kids.
Unfortunately, in underserved communities, the issue of motivations compounded by lack of access to books, contributing to the achievement gap between students from high and low income families in the U.S. To address this issue, Bookelicious not only sells books, but it also helps children find the titles they choose in local libraries. However, borrowing your favorite book from the library isn’t as impactful as owning it. To better meet this need, Lea Anne and Judy Koch, Executive Director of the Bring Me a Book Foundation, are piloting the idea of partnering with local nonprofits to adopt Title I classrooms and underwrite the books chosen by students using the Bookelicious platform. The hope is that, by giving disadvantaged children ownership of the right books, they can help close the achievement gap. In addition to her work at m Bookelicious, Lea Anne has served as an advisor to Silicon Valley startups since 1998. Previously, Lea Anne was general counsel for My Wire, Inc., an online media retail startup, and a partner at Cooley LLP, a Silicon Valley based law firm known for its expertise in the areas of venture capital and technology transactions. Lea Anne holds an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also serves as a board member for non-profits Bring Me a Book Foundation and LitLab. |
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In Observance of Labor Day
Aug. 30, 2019
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Zipline, Lifesaving Deliveries By Drone
Sep. 06, 2019
Please join us this Friday morning when our guest speaker will be Jeremy Schwartz from Zipline. Today, too many people are underserved by last century's limited solutions: trucks, trains, and washed-out roads. Zipline leap-frogs these outdated solutions with a cost-effective drone delivery network, revolutionizing access to healthcare. Their mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who need it most. Since then, they've built the world's fastest and most reliable delivery drone, the world's largest autonomous logistics network, and a truly amazing team. They are a local company, in that they design and test their technology in Half Moon Bay. They assemble the drones and the technology that powers their distribution centers in South San Francisco. They perform extensive flight testing in Davis. Then they operate distribution centers around the planet with teams of local operators. How it works: Doctors place orders on-demand through a simple app for any medicine they need, when they need it. Medical products are stored centrally at Zipline's distribution centers and are flown quickly to any destination. This maintains cold-chain and product integrity, while eliminating waste. Zipline packages the order, then launches it into flight. Racing along at over 100 km/h, vital products arrive faster than any other mode of transport. Their drones fly without a pilot and are battery-powered, reducing the cost and emissions of moving medicine. Their drones fly over remote mountains, rivers, and washed-out roads. They require no local infrastructure to serve communities. Within 30 minutes, medical supplies are delivered from the sky by parachute. Recipients don't interact with the drone itself. The drones only land at Zipline's distribution center, where Zipline operators quickly prepare them for their next flight. They've refined this process to support hundreds of deliveries per day, per distribution center, in all weather conditions. Zipline focuses on running an elite operation so doctors can focus on giving patients the care they deserve. Jeremy Schwartz is the Lead Flight Software engineer at Zipline. Jeremy started his career with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, with a focus on robotics. From there, he spent several years working on autonomous vehicles of all types -- on the ground, in the water, in the air, and in space. For example, he took part in the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, and the DARPA F6 project to develop cluster flight control algorithms for a swarm of satellites in orbit. Jeremy joined Zipline about six months after the company began, and is responsible for all the code that runs onboard the vehicle. |
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New Member Talk and Summer Internships
Sep. 13, 2019
Please join us this Friday morning when we will have a new member talk from Amee Devani and an update about our Vocational Committee’s summer intern program.
Amee Devani comes to us from Kenya where her father was the past president of the Nairobi Rotary Club. She has a BA and MA in Economics from Cambridge. She has worked for Ernst & Young in London focusing on Renewable Energy Consultancy, with focus on clean-tech, wind and biogas projects. She also helped found Pavegen Systems, an innovative clean-tech company, the first to successfully commercialize a product which converts the kinetic energy from footfall to renewable electricity. In 2017 she was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford's GSB. Amee works in the office of the CEO of Palantir Technologies. She is also very recently the co-founder of WellBeam, a digital health solution transforming communication on the continuum of patient care. She is also an avid cyclist. We will also hear short presentations by three college students who had internships this summer made possible by PAUR members. As part of PAUR’s Vocational Committee’s program, a summer internship program was piloted this past year to help college students from local low income families get meaningful experience that will help to launch the student’s careers after they graduate next spring. These students are mostly first generation in their families to attend college. PAUR’s Vocational Committee, working in partnership with two local nonprofits, found relevant and meaningful positions for our speakers. You will hear from them about the impact these internships have had on their career goals and preparation, a little about their lives and goals, and the roles PAUR members have played in helping them. Gabriela Perez, a senior at UC Riverside majoring in Economics. She worked this summer at Mercedes Benz Research Center, thanks to PAUR member Philipp Skarsgard. Bryce Bondarenko, a senior at San Jose State majoring in Business. He interned this summer in the Stanford Athletics Department, thanks to PAUR “Honorary Member” Ray Purpur. Jose Enrique Corado Cano, a senior at UC Riverside majoring in Applied Mathematics. He interned this summer at SLAC, thanks to PAUR member Uwe Bergmann. |
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The Future of Recycling
Sep. 20, 2019
Please join us this Friday morning when we will have Joe La Mariana, the Executive Director of RethinkWaste, as our guest speaker. RethinkWaste is a joint powers authority of twelve public agencies (Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, the County of San Mateo and the West Bay Sanitary District) in San Mateo County and is a leader in the delivery of innovative waste reduction and recycling programs. RethinkWaste owns and manages the Shoreway Environmental Center which receives all of the recyclables, organics, and garbage collected in its service area. RethinkWaste also provides strategic oversight, support and management of service providers that collect, process, recycle and dispose of materials for the 12 Member Agencies. RethinkWaste, also known as the South Bayside Waste Management Authority (SBWMA) was formed in 1982. The primary goal of RethinkWaste is to provide cost effective waste reduction, recycling, and solid waste programs to member agencies through franchised services and other recyclers to meet and sustain a minimum of 50% diversion of waste from landfill as mandated by California State Law, AB 939. As of January 1, 2011, Recology San Mateo County (Recology) provides Recycle, Compost and Garbage collection services for the 93,000 RethinkWaste residences and 10,000 businesses. RethinkWaste owns the Shoreway Environmental Center in San Carlos, Shoreway serves as a regional solid waste and recycling facility for the receipt, handling and transfer of refuse, recyclables and organic materials collected from the RethinkWaste service area. RethinkWaste offices are located in the San Carlos library building. They also share staff with the City of San Carlos including using the city’s Finance and Accounting Department. RethinkWaste is led by an Executive Director, Joe La Mariana, who reports to a Board of Directors comprised of elected officials from our Member Agencies. Joe joined the RethinkWaste staff in August 2016 after serving in local government for ten years as San Mateo County’s Solid Waste and Environmental Services Manager. During this time, Joe was a section manager in the County Manager’s Office of Sustainability and the Department of Public Works. Before working at the County, Joe worked for over 13 years in the local solid waste industry’s private sector, including assignments as the Recycling Director for Republic Services (formerly known as BFI/Allied Waste) at the San Carlos Shoreway Environmental Center, and in regional management positions with Recology (SF) and Waste Management Inc. (East Bay). Joe’s responsibilities have always emphasized top-tier customer service in residential and commercial garbage and recycling services, while working closely with local elected officials and business leaders. Prior to the solid waste industry, Joe worked for 13 years in corporate communications and marketing. Joe serves as the immediate Past President of the Solid Waste Association of Northern America’s (SWANA) Northern California Gold Rush Chapter, and is extremely active in the California Resource & Recovery Association (CRRA), the Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA), California’s Against Waste (CAW), the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) and the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), as well as numerous business organizations. Joe serves on SWANA’s California Legislative Task Force and is a passionate advocate for strong environmental legislation in our state. With a robust commitment to community, Joe has extensively volunteered with the Rotary Club of Burlingame, the Burlingame and Brisbane Chambers of Commerce, the City of Burlingame’s Park and Rec Commission, several mid-peninsula youth sports leagues and Our Lady of Angels parish. Joe earned a technical certificate in Solid Waste Management from UC Berkeley; an MBA from Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont; and a BA in Public Relations from California State University, Chico. Joe completed the San Mateo/Burlingame/Foster City/Hillsborough Leadership program in 2004. |
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Sep. 28, 2019 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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The Power of Technology
Oct. 04, 2019
We are in for a real treat on Friday when our speaker will be Christina Passariello from the Washington Post. Technology is totally interwoven into our lives now. In Silicon Valley, we often embrace it. But for many people, especially outside the Bay Area, tech is scary or confusing or inaccessible. Christina plans to discuss how we approach tech journalism, why it’s just as important as covering the government, how journalism has gotten a lot smarter about tech coverage in the last few years—and why the “techlash” shouldn’t be the only story. Christina oversees a critical and expanding area of coverage for The Washington Post, running a talented team of reporters in San Francisco, Washington and Seattle. She guides coverage of the most powerful companies in the world, which play critical roles in shaping our world. Under her leadership, the Post has produced groundbreaking stories about privacy, freedom of speech, safety and the responsibility of tech giants. She previously worked at The Wall Street Journal for nearly 14 years, most recently as deputy technology editor in its San Francisco bureau. Prior to San Francisco, Christina was the European fashion and luxury correspondent for the Journal, covering everything from catwalks to sweatshops. She was part of the team that won the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi award for reporting on Bangladesh’s garment industry. She previously worked for Business Week and Euromoney, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine and Rolling Stone. She served as a foreign correspondent in Paris for 14 years and also lived in London. Christina received a BA in English from Cal, and was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford from 2014 to 2015. She hails from southern California. Growing up, she began her journalism career writing features for her high school newspaper. But she was really sold on the profession after her first professional assignment, for Rolling Stone: to cover a party hosted by several former Beatles. She is fluent in French and Italian. |
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Putting the Fun Back Into Fundraising
Oct. 11, 2019
Have you ever wondered if there just might be a better way to bring in money for the many projects our Club does? Please join us on Friday when we will be led by President Katie as we explore the many ways our club might redefine how we raise funds. There will be activities at tables, brainstorming, and we will be introduced to the InKynd platform. Your ideas, validated successful examples, and outrageous schemes are welcome. Help form the fundraising future of our Club. Come with your open mind instead of an open wallet. |
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California the Global Center for the Stem Cell Research
Oct. 18, 2019
Please join us on Friday when our speaker will be Kevin McCormack from the California the Global Center for the Stem Cell Research. Kevin is the communications director at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine or CIRM, the state’s stem cell agency. The agency was created by voters when they approved Proposition 71 in 2004. It gave the agency $3 billion to fund stem cell research in California. Kevin considers himself to be the official translator for the agency, working to turn complex language about equally complex science into everyday English that anyone can understand. Before joining CIRM he spent more than 20 years working as a journalist, most of that in TV news in San Francisco. Kevin is here to tell us what they have done with the money and how it’s helped make California the global center of this research. |
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U.S.-Asia Relations under Trump
Oct. 25, 2019
Please join us on Friday when our speaker will be Professor Gi-Wook Shin. President Trump’s “America First” policy has reshaped U.S. priorities in Asia, with much of its focus on self-interest—reducing trade deficit and transactional approach to alliance management, etc. This nationalist stance has given rise to concern and anxiety among its allies in the region, not to mention its adversaries, and is challenging the liberal international order more broadly. More worrisome is the declining U.S. leadership in the region which jeopardizes the future security and stability of the region as well as the world. In his talk, Professor Gi-Wook Shin will discuss the issues of U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration, especially in light of the recent developments in the U.S.-North Korea relations, the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and China, and the issues of U.S. alliance relations in the region. Gi-Wook Shin is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in sociology and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He established Stanford’s Korea Program in 2001, and has been directing the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford since 2005. His research concentrates on social movements, nationalism, development, and international relations, with focus on Korea and broader Asia. Shin is the author/editor of over twenty books and numerous articles, including Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War, One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era, Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia, and Ethnic Nationalism in Korea. Shin’s current research initiatives include Global Talent Flows and Rise of Populism and Nationalism. Before coming to Stanford, Shin taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds BA from Yonsei University in Korea and MA and PhD from the University of Washington. |
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The Future of Democracy, Money, and the Surveillance State
Nov. 01, 2019
Please join us on Friday when we will hear from Alex Gladstein. Technology is rapidly changing governance, economics, and our personal freedoms. From Beijing to Silicon Valley, new kinds of smart cities and social media and electronic payments are offering unprecedented conveniences with different kinds of tradeoffs. Most threaten our privacy. What's wrong with these centralized systems and are there decentralized alternatives? Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex’s writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, The Guardian, Monocle, The New Republic, The New York Times, NowThis, NPR, Quartz, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, presented at the European Parliament and U.S. Department of State, and participated in Singularity University events from Berlin to Johannesburg, where he lectures about decentralized technology. He currently lives in the San Francisco area. |
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Exploring the Biodiversity of Borneo
Nov. 08, 2019
Please join us Friday when, after several of our weightier topics, we will get a breath of fresh salt air when our speaker will be the Founder and Director of Shark Stewards, David McGuire. A marine biologist and shark advocate, David is the founder of the Ocean Health and Shark Conservation nonprofit Shark Stewards, dedicated to saving sharks and protecting critical marine habitat. As a sailing captain, dive master and filmmaker, David has explored the world’s oceans on numerous sailing voyages producing media with an emphasis on sharks and ocean awareness. David’s undergraduate work in Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara lead him to study whales in Mexico, and join an expedition across the Pacific. He has a master’s degree in environmental health from UC Berkeley, where he worked for over a decade in the Department of Integrative Biology. A Research Associate of the Department of Aquatic Biology at the California Academy of Sciences, David is conducting a shark research program that includes shark population studies, movements and fisheries impacts. An adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, David teaches marine protection policy and marine ecology. He has participated in numerous sailing voyages and scientific diving expeditions with Academy researchers communicating the wonders of the natural world and ocean life and the need to protect them, including a two month biodiversity expedition to the Philippines where he filmed and produced an Emmy award winning documentary Reef to Rainforests. David is the writer, producer and underwater cinematographer of several award winning documentaries focusing on sharks, including an online series in Borneo. A National Geographic Explorer, he has also published numerous articles on the state of the ocean and sharks and writes a National Geographic Explorers blog and an Ocean Voices column on sharks and ocean health. David selects and emcees films and hosts panels at film festivals including the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival and the San Francisco Green Film Festival and is a popular public speaker sharing his ocean stories and images. He has received numerous awards for his work including an award for Journalism with KQED for the investigative story Sea Horse Sleuth, the 2011 Hero of Marin Environmental Stewardship Award, and an Emmy award for his work on the documentary Reefs to Rainforests. David has been recognized by Congressman Jared Huffman for his work, and was awarded the Hero of Marine Award for catalyzing shark fin trade bans in North America. He has also been recognized as a Hero of the Environment by the Town of Pacifica for his educational and ocean conservation work. An ocean adventurer and athlete, David has competed in numerous endurance events such as the Trans Pacific Yacht Race, Hawaii Ironman and is an open water marathon swimmer, swimming for sharks. Current projects include an adventure film on diving with sharks in Malaysia and a book on sharks and rays of the San Francisco Bay. |