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Policy Hits and Misses of 2021
Jan. 05, 2022
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Jan. 16, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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RotaCare Marin
Jan. 19, 2022
Clinic Operations Manager of RotaCare San Rafael
One of the greatest accomplishments of Rotary Club of Marinsunrise has been the establishment of RotaCare. Lisa María Dickey is a public health specialist with ten years of experience working in the United States and abroad. She specializes in improving health outcomes in extremely resource poor settings. Over the last six years, she has played a critical role in international medical programs where she established a pediatric chronic care clinic, facilitated workshops with the goal of improving community access to health information and medical services, provided patient advocacy, and developed quality improvement projects for inpatient pediatric and neonatology units. She holds a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University and is a native English and Spanish speaker with fluency in French and Haitian Creole. Public Health Investigator-Bilingual Sept. 2006 - Oct. 2009 rin County, Division of Public Health, San Rafael, CA Latino Outreach Coordinator Dec. 2005 – June 2006 American Liver Foundation, Northern California Chapter, San Francisco, CA Clinic Director Dec. 2012-May 2013 Kay Mackenson Clinic: Center for Haitian Children with Chronic Diseases, Pierre Payen, Haiti International Public Health Volunteer Hospital Saint-Nicolas/Partners in Health, Saint-Marc, Haiti Aug. 2011- Dec. 2012 Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic12 two-week periods, Jan. 1999 – Aug. 2012 Siddhi Memorial Foundation, Bhaktapur, Nepal Mar.-Apr. 2010 Kashiben Gordhandas Patel Children’s Hospital, Vadodara, India Mar. 2010 Baucau Hospital, Baucau, East Timor Jan.-Feb. 2010 |
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Jan. 26, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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Red Meat: Better off without it
Feb. 02, 2022 7:30 a.m.
Dr. Martin is very active in the effort to combat climate change. In looking at the main drivers of climate change, he realized that red meat is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas production. Some scientists believe that, on a worldwide basis, red meat causes more greenhouse gases than do all vehicles. Reducing red meat consumption is the single most important thing most people can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Red meat has also been associated with a wide variety of adverse health outcomes, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, stroke, kidney disease, and many other conditions. Thus, red meat is neither good for us nor our planet. When Dr. Martin recognized the problems associated with red meat, he started an organization called Physicians Against Red Meat (PhARM). The group’s website (pharm.org) highlights the deleterious health and climate impact of red meat. Dr. Martin completed his medical training at the University of Chicago, his Internal Medicine Residency at Yale, and his Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Martin also received both an MBA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Martin is an Associate Clinical Professor in UCSF’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He has been involved in a variety of research projects with a focus on preventive medicine issues. These research projects include the relationship of cholesterol levels to heart disease, the effects of passive smoking on heart disease, the cost of firearm injuries, sunlight’s aging effects on the skin, and the excessive use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. |
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Food allergies and cultural awareness
Feb. 09, 2022
Founder of Free & Friendly Foods, since 2016 Kathlena the Allergy Chef has been educating the public and increasing awareness of food allergies and their relationship with overall wellness. Diagnosed with over 200 food allergies and food intolerances, Kathlena is helping people thrive. Unable to drink most water, her story is unique and touches the lives of many. She has to wear a full face respirator to leave the home as she suffers from contact and airborne allergies - it's literally a life saver. Currently 1 in 13 children have been diagnosed with food allergies; many of them have multiple food allergies. There are millions of adults worldwide with food allergies and other illnesses such as Celiac Disease, Histamine Intolerance, Oral Allergy Syndrome, and more. |
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Treason and traitors in the American law
Feb. 16, 2022
Professor Carlton Will provide an overview of treason law and the often confusing distinction between what is treason and what is not. He will discuss some of the famous treason cases in American history like that of Jefferson Davis and Tokyo Rose. Professor Larson’s scholarship has been cited by numerous federal and state courts and has been profiled in The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, and many other publications. He is a frequent commentator for the national media on constitutional law issues. Professor Larson is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and Executive Editor of The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Prior to joining the UC Davis law faculty, Professor Larson served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and spent three years as a commercial litigator at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. |
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Feb. 20, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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Community Garden Project - Neil Cummins
Feb. 23, 2022
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Feb. 23, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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Reconstruction momentum
Mar. 02, 2022
Please join us as the incredible loss of the girls children orphanage and what is being done to rebuild. |
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Love Without Borders - For Refugees In Need
Mar. 09, 2022
In 2015, our founder Kayra Martinez, a flight attendant for United Airlines based in Frankfurt, Germany, heard about the horrible conditions in which asylum seekers were made to live in. She was inspired to leverage her privileged lifestyle to make a difference. She started by organizing collections of needed items like coats and warm clothing in her Frankfurt community, and later decided to volunteer in the refugee camps and housing communities in the north of Greece. It was at the Nea Kavala camp that Kayra had the idea to give the children art supplies so that they could draw and paint. From the first session Kayra noticed how the creative process seemed to calm the kids, so she began regular art workshops for the children in the tents in the camp. She shared what she was doing with her friends through social media when someone suggested to her that she sell the paintings. Over time, parents joined their children, and Kayra expanded the program to include adults who were interested. She began selling the pieces on behalf of the artists, returning all of the earnings to the individuals that created each piece sold.
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District 5150 and Marin Sunrise
Mar. 16, 2022
Please join us for a special meeting with our very own District Governor Danielle Lamellent. Danielle Lallement began her career as a trauma intensive care unit nurse in Reno, Nevada. She relocated to the San Francisco area and is currently employed as a Unit Director at University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, managing both a surgical oncology and a respiratory isolation intensive care unit.
In 2007, she joined the Rotary Club of Sparks in Sparks, Nevada. She relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, and in 2013 she became a founding member and Charter President of the San Francisco Evening Rotary Club. Her club gave her a focus that included the engagement of young professionals into the organization, and she saw the need for the organization to innovate and become more relevant in today’s world. In 2014, she was selected to participate in the Rotary Young Professionals Summit in Chicago, and in 2015, she organized and held the West Coast Young Professionals Summit in Berkeley, CA. That same year, she was also selected by RI president, K.R. Ravi Ravindran to serve as the young professional advisor on the Rotary International Membership Committee.
In 2016, she created and chaired the Rotary Connecting for Good Tour, the largest goodwill tour on the West Coast of the United States, involving 6 states and 14 cities. Once the tour was completed, she helped create and charter the Castro Rotary Club in San Francisco.
She recently served on the Zone Advisory Committee for Zones 25/26 in 2017-2019 and was selected to serve as District Governor for District 5150 in 2021-2022.
In March of 2020, as the COVID pandemic reached the San Francisco Community, Danielle and her team reopened the adult intensive care unit at the UCSF Mount Zion Campus in order to accommodate our COVID + patients. She now manages both the COVID+ ICU at the UCSF Mount Zion Campus and the Surgical Oncology ICU at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus
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Mar. 20, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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Refinery Town
Mar. 23, 2022
Richmond, California – long a proto-typical company town with one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country, with deindustrialization, poverty, joblessness, substandard schools and housing, drug trafficking, street crime, gang violence and wild corruption in City Hall resulting in mismanagement and near bankruptcy – transformed itself over a decade into a progressive city via multi-faceted municipal reforms. These were led by labor and community activists, environmental justice campaigners, police reformers, and gay rights activists who formed the Richmond Progressive Alliance, “an unlikely group of Greens, Latinos, progressive Democrats, African Americans, and free spirits” who worked with incoming Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. Richmond became the largest U.S. city run by a Green mayor plus an ally of peasant farmers in Ecuador, which had also battled Chevron.
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Mar. 23, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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Wonderfest
Apr. 06, 2022
Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Beacon of Science, is a non-profit educational corporation with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Wonderfest was founded by Tucker Hiatt (tucker@wonderfest.org), and he currently serves as Executive Director. Eric Yao (eric@wonderfest.org) is Technical Director. Wonderfest headquarters are located just north of San Francisco—in Marin County—at 47 Alta Way, Corte Madera, CA 94925.
Tucker Hiatt founded Wonderfest in 1997. With the reincarnation of Wonderfest as an independent nonprofit corporation in 2011, the Wonderfest Board appointed Tucker to the position of Executive Director. Tucker earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the University of California with the expressed goal of becoming a science teacher. His thesis research explored a narrow aspect of experimental solid state (condensed matter) physics. Later, Tucker worked with UC Berkeley’s Space Astrophysics Group to develop search algorithms that are now at work around the world in the SETI@homesoftware. Tucker taught physics at UC Santa Cruz, Punahou School, San Francisco University High School, and Branson School. At the Exploratorium, he built an exhibit, wrote a guide book, and trained Explainers. From 2008 to 2019, Tucker was a Board member of the Bay Area Skeptics, and from 2008 to 2014, he held the position of Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Chemistry Department. Tucker has been a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) since 1978. He has published several articles and cartoons in The Physics Teacher, the AAPT journal. In 2001, Tucker wrote and published the Layers of Scientific Understanding poster. And, in 2006, he earned the Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence.
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Apr. 17, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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B Corps
Apr. 27, 2022
Please join us as we learn more about the corporations and their role in developing stronger communities. Marie has a rile as the engagement officer for B Local Bay Area. B Local Bay Area is a voluntary collaboration of B Corp community leaders in our region assembled to advance our shared vision of a purpose-driven economy which benefits all stakeholders, in close collaboration with B Lab. B Local Bay Area exists to foster and deepen connections among organizations in our region who share our purpose and passion for using business as a force for good.B Local Bay Area is fiscally sponsored by Social Good Fund. SocialGood works to create and establish positive influences for individuals, communities, and the environment. Their goal is to sponsor and develop projects that will help positively impact and develop local communities into healthier and happier places to live, work, and be.
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Apr. 27, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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Corte Madera town update
May 04, 2022
Adam Wolff has been the Director of Planning and Building for the Town of Corte Madera since 2014, where he oversees land use and housing policy, development review, and private construction activities. Prior to joining the Town, Adam spent almost 15 years in New York City, where he obtained a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University and began his career as a city planner, eventually serving as Deputy Director of New York City’s Manhattan Office at the Department of City Planning. Adam was raised in Mill Valley and is a graduate of Tam High. He currently lives in Petaluma with his wife, Alicia, and three sons. |
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May 15, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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Kelp Restoration Program - Greater Farallones Association
May 18, 2022
Please join us to hear about the recent grant to help restore kelp forests off our coast. Did you know there has been widespread ocean deforestation in recent years. Hear more show vital kelp forests are to us here on land and what we all can do to help. Rietta Hohman manages the Kelp Recovery Program, an initiative under the Ocean Climate Program to investigate opportunities to restore and protect kelp forests on the northern California coastline. She coordinates the Oceans At Your School Program and Marine Explorers Camp, experiential programs designed to engage youth in marine science education and stewardship. Rietta is a dive instructor, a scientific diver, and holds an MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco. Originally from the Sierra Nevada foothills, she has called San Francisco home for nearly a decade and loves to explore California’s mountains, forests, deserts and coastline.
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May 23, 2022 1:00 p.m.
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May 25, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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MeWater
Jun. 01, 2022
MeWater Foundation works to address adjustments of trauma and stress in young people from backgrounds of poverty and violence by providing a different way of relating to the world and communities they live in, all through the power of nature and the ocean. MeWater connects vulnerable young people to positive community members and creates opportunities for youth to develop new skills, practice new coping mechanisms and form positive, reciprocal relationships with trusted peers. All year round, MeWater runs programs throughout the Bay Area, including day and overnight camps for youth with a mental health approach to mindfulness, empowerment, and exposure to the ocean and outdoors. MeWater Foundation is more than surfing. It is about increasing one's own self-reliance and purpose. It is about leveraging the strengths of people and reducing social isolation by growing positive connections within the community with the ocean as a conduit to improvement of well-being. |
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Jun. 19, 2022 12:45 p.m.
Our current monthly in person service project is ExtraFood; the 3rd Sunday of the month, at the Marin Civic Center Farmer's Market in San Rafael, CA. Together we will collect Easter plus food from farmers to be donated to various community groups in need.
Please arrive around 12:45-1:00 on Sunday afternoon at the “big tree” near at the corner of Judge Haley/Peter Behr Road (near the East entrance of the market). We usually end by 2-2:30 and then 3 volunteers will deliver the food in their vehicles. Please bring extra cardboard boxes - see local grocery store, markets, recycle bin. Don’t forget your Rotary shirt, pin or hat. For more about the ExtraFood visit www.ExtraFood.org |
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Conservation Corps NorthBay
Jun. 22, 2022
Conservation Corps North Bay is the oldest local nonprofit youth conservation corps in the country. Serving Marin and Sonoma Counties since 1982, CCNB has helped thousands of young people achieve their goals through education and job skills, while serving the environment and community. Anastasia Pryor - Director of Development and CommunicationsAnastasia works with her team to raise Conservation Corps North Bay’s private funding and to share CCNB’s work with its partners, donors, and community. She comes with more than 20 years of experience working in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Her “first career” working in advertising and marketing for local media outlets laid the foundation for her future work in community engagement and fundraising in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining CCNB, Anastasia was the Director of Development at Bergin University of Canine Studies, where she raised funds and awareness for the school’s educational and service dog programs. As Institutional Giving Officer at Yosemite Conservancy, Anastasia worked with corporate and foundation partners to support environmental restoration projects throughout the park. Before that, she was Assistant Development Director at Sunny Hills Services where she developed her passion for helping young people lead healthy and successful lives. Anastasia is a graduate of the Novato and Santa Rosa Chamber Leadership Programs, is a member of the Leadership Santa Rosa Alumni Association, and has served as PR Committee Co-Chair for the Rotary Club of Oakland. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Jun. 22, 2022 7:30 p.m.
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