San Diego Rotary

San Diego Padres
2017-03-30 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Tom Seidler, Senior VP and member of the ownership group, along with Erik Greupner, COO, will catch us up on all things Padres and what’s in store for the new season!

Carl Guardino, CEO-Silicon Valley Leadership Group
2017-03-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
“Lessons on Leadership – Silicon Valley and San Diego’s Innovation Economy”
Annually, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group produces the “Silicon Valley Competitiveness Project,” with 20 key indicators by which to contrast Silicon Valley with the other five top Tech Regions in the United States, including Southern California (San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles Counties), Austin, Boston, Seattle and New York City. What are the skills and traits each region needs to protect and grow its success?
Carl Guardino, one of Silicon Valley’s most distinguished business and community leaders, is the President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a public policy trade association that represents more than 400 of Silicon Valley’s most respected employers.
In February 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Guardino to a four-year term on the California Transportation Commission and has been reappointed twice by Governor Jerry Brown. In 2000, the San Jose Mercury News named Guardino one of the “Five Most Powerful” people in Silicon Valley, in a once-per-decade “Power Study.” He received similar recognition in 2010.
Known throughout the region as a consensus builder, Guardino has championed a number of important issues, especially in the areas of transportation and housing. Most recently, Guardino led a 3-year effort that culminated in “Measure B” on the November, 2016 ballot, which will generate an additional $6.5 billion in local funds for traffic relief improvements. Measure B passed with 71.74% of the vote. As a housing advocate, he co-created the Housing Trust Silicon Valley, which has helped 20,000 families afford homes in high-cost Silicon Valley by raising more than $90 million in voluntary contributions.

2017 Camp Enterprise Kick Off-Guest speaker Stephan Aarstol
2017-03-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
This is our club’s 42nd year of bringing high school juniors to camp where they learn about the Free Enterprise System!
The camp provides an important learning environment for all to gain leadership skills and experience team building, and students come away with a greater awareness of their possibilities. Join us as we send these students off to a life changing and transformative experience.
Our keynote speaker this year will be Stephan Aarstol, Founder and CEO of Tower Paddle Boards.
He is known as the guy who forgot his pitch on ABC reality show “Shark Tank” in its third season.
But the Tower Paddle Boards founder managed to recover and snag a $150,000 investment from billionaire Mark Cuban, in the episode that aired in March 2012. In exchange, Cuban got 30 percent ownership in the business and its earnings.
Stephan Aarstol and his online manufacturer direct stand-up paddle-board company have since been recognized by both People and Entrepreneur magazines as one of the show’s top 10 success stories.
Stephan is an entrepreneurial thought leader and online marketing expert. With over 15 years of Internet experience, he has worked with a large variety of startups, from ecommerce and medical imaging to educational toys and youth backpacking. He founded Tower Paddle Boards in June of 2010 after picking up the sport early that year in the waves of La Jolla shores. Like anyone else whose tried the sport, he’s been hooked ever since.
Stephan holds an MBA in New Venture Management from the University of San Diego and lives in San Diego today.

Peter Callstrom and Max Villalobos
2017-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Peter Callstrom, President & CEO of San Diego Workforce Partnership, will highlight the significant role of San Diego’s healthcare organizations as major employers, and discuss the demands for a qualified workforce for the healthcare sector. Max Villalobos, Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals San Diego Service Area, will preview the opening of the new $1 billion flagship Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, and discuss the future of patient care through technology and innovation.
The New Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center
More than 1,000 new jobs are being created at this new flagship hospital, located in Kearney Mesa (Interstate 15 and Clairemont Mesa Boulevard), which will be the first certified LEED Platinum healthcare facility in the world. This is a sneak peek opportunity to learn about the incredible process of building and opening a $1 billion facility, including dramatic drone footage of the construction and time lapse of the project, as well the intricate process of opening for patient care. There have been folks dedicated to every detail of that process for more than two years. The new facility will be unveiled to the public on April 25, 2017.

Gordan Carrier, Brad Richter & Michael McNerney
2017-03-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Downtown’s Progress and Innovation
Employers in US Urban Centers of Innovation continue to evolve, and the spaces designed to support them are morphing as well. Come hear details of downtown’s development projections and accomplishments through the eyes of Civic San Diego Executive, while hearing from a developer and architect about two innovation projects focused on re-interpreting San Diego’s offering as a place inspiring Live, Work, and Play.
Our panel of speakers include Gordon Carrier, Founder and Design Principal of Carrier Johnson + CULTURE, Brad Richter, VP of Planning with Civic San Diego, and Michael McNerney, Senior VP of Lowe Enterprises Real Estate Group.

Michael Jones - President, The Maritime Alliance
2017-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Promoting a regional “Blue Voice”
The Blue Economy is enormous, growing, and critical for the future of humans on earth…yet it is little understood, studied and promoted. The Maritime Alliance (TMA) is the non-profit organizer of the largest ocean and water technology (BlueTech) cluster in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world. TMA is the Blue Voice of the San Diego region recognized nationally and internationally for its work.

Michael Jones founded The Maritime Alliance (TMA) in 2007 after noticing that San Diego has a strong cluster of maritime technology companies. His background is finance and international relations, having spent 8 years as a commercial lender and 31 years as an investment banker with his firm ProFinance Associates. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU), a member of the Board of Directors of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. to help SAIS focus on the Blue Economy. Michael speaks five languages and travels extensively.

Chris Yanov - Founder & President, Reality Changers
2017-02-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Changing Reality in San Diego
How did a program that began in 2001 with just $300 produce a $1 billion impact on San Diego’s economy? And how did it come up with a solution to gang violence by throwing out all the rules of conventional wisdom? On Thursday, February 16, come hear the unlikely success story of how Reality Changers, headquartered here in San Diego, has become a national model for building first generation college students.

Valentine' Day Sweethearts Program
2017-02-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Join us for an incredibly entertaining program featuring a performance by Master of Fine Arts Musical Theater students that are in the nationally acclaimed musical theater program at SDSU. This is a lunch you will truly enjoy, especially if you bring a sweetheart!
Please call or email the office if you plan to bring guests to this meeting.
A special thank you to Patti Roscoe for sponsoring this program.

Maureen Stapleton - GM, San Diego County Water Authority
2017-02-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Water, Water, Everywhere…Beyond the California Drought
Water is never a dry subject, and 2017 promises to be another action-packed year in the water world. Maureen Stapleton, general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority, will bring us up-to-date on the important water issues to watch this year. The Water Authority is the region’s wholesale water provider and over the past two decades has executed a diversification strategy that has ensured water reliability in support of the region’s $222 billion economy and its 3.3 million people.

In celebration of the Chinese New Year
2017-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Guest speaker: Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng
Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng is a Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Executive Director of Chinese Studies Institute at San Diego State University. She is the Managing Director of the Confucius Institute at SDSU.
Her presentation will focus on the most important elements of understanding the differences between the east and the west.
Thomas Friedman says the winners in the 21st-century will be those with more PQ and CQ in order to leverage all the new digital tools to not just find a job, but to invent one or reinvent one, and not to just learn but to relearn, for a lifetime.
In his book ‘The World is Flat’ he talked about how we must be globally competent. Global competence is defined as the ability to work across cultures with the understanding of cultural imperatives and mandates. Cultural imperative are driven by cultural values and world views. World views are deeply rooted in cultural and history of people. So an appreciation of such differences is part of the acquisition of global cultural competence.

Steve Snyder - CEO, Fleet Science Center
2017-01-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
San Diego’s Scientific Future
With industry leading companies and world-class research institutions, our region has a unique place in the world of science and technology. Work emanating from San Diego has and continues to change the world. But are we really doing all we can to grab the opportunity that our scientific past affords us?
Dr. Steven Snyder is the CEO for the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA. Since taking on the role in 2013, he has brought ambitious science experiences to San Diego, like “ILLUSION,” which made its North American premiere at the Fleet, and “Taping Shape,” opening in January 2016. He expanded the Fleet Inquiry Institute to teach the inquiry method of science learning to more than 1,000 local educators a year. Most significantly, Snyder redefined the Fleet’s role, taking it from a science center in Balboa Park to a community organization dedicated to helping all San Diegans achieve their place in our shared scientific future. To that end, he brought science into the community with unexpected programs like Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar, which brings 50 scientists to 25 bars all over San Diego County every quarter. And he launched 52 Weeks of Science, which leverages the wealth of local science and technology resources to bring science events directly to neighborhoods. He is a member of the ASTC Finance Committee, a trustee of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and a Steering Committee Member for the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering. He is also a science advisor for the giant screen film Secrets of the Universe.
Dr. Snyder graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and took his Ph.D. in Physics in 1996 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Brad Tilden - CEO, Alaska Airlines
2017-01-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Why Alaska Airlines believes Different Works
How does a business grow and thrive? For Alaska Airlines, it means breaking the industry mold while running the business in a sustainable way. Hear how Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden redefines customer service in an industry that has historically not performed very well, and why he’s optimistic about what’s ahead in California.
Brad Tilden serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines. Alaska flies more than 200 aircraft to 114 destinations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica and has 15,200 employees. Alaska has grown significantly over the years and is a Fortune 500 company.
Under the leadership of Tilden and his team, Alaska is focusing on low fares, profitable growth of the route network and becoming the easiest airline to fly. Alaska has earned recognition for ranking highest in customer satisfaction among traditional North American carriers by J.D. Power for nine consecutive years. The airline has also ranked No. 1 in on-time performance for six consecutive years by FlightStats.com, and has received other honors for philanthropy, community service and environmental stewardship. In addition to these achievements, Alaska consistently ranks among the nation’s most profitable airlines.
Tilden is a 25-year veteran of Alaska Air Group. He has previously served as executive vice president of finance and planning, chief financial officer, and corporate controller. Before joining Alaska, he spent eight years with the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pacific Lutheran University and an executive master’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington.
Tilden was ranked #22 among the Top 50 Corporate Leaders in America by Fortune magazine in 2015. He has also been recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as Executive of the Year, and by the Boy Scouts of America as a Distinguished Eagle Scout.
Tilden serves on the boards of the Washington Roundtable, the Boy Scouts of America, Pacific Lutheran University, and Nordstorm. Additionally, he chairs the board of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
A Seattle native, Tilden grew up a few miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he developed an early love of aviation. He holds a commercial pilot’s license and enjoys flying recreationally. He also enjoys cycling and spending time with his family.

2017 Economic Forecast
2017-01-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Guest speakers: Alan Nevin, real estate economist and director of economic and market research for Xpera Group, and Dr. Alan Gin, professor of economics at USD. Both will give provide their expert predictions for the 2017 local and national economy.
Alan Nevin has an extensive background in real estate economics, lending and market analysis. He serves the development, investment, legal and public agency communities with residential and commercial real estate valuation, feasibility and real estate advisory services and litigation support.
In the past, Mr. Nevin served as Director of Real Estate Research for HomeFed Bank and was President of ConAm Securities, a subsidiary of ConAm Management Company. Mr. Nevin also served as Chief Economist for the California Building Industry Association. He is the co-founder of firms that bought, built, rehabbed and operated more than three dozen residential and commercial projects in San Diego County, valued in excess of $250 million. He was a founding member of three savings and loan associations.
Mr. Nevin taught for 30+ years at UCSD Extension. He is an instructor of a CLE-approved seminar on Litigation Economics and taught the capstone course on feasibility studies for the Master’s program at USD Burnham Moores Institute of Real Estate.
In 2016, Mr. Nevin published his landmark book, The Great Divide: The True Story of America Tomorrow, detailing America’s demographic and economic trends, and where it is leading the country for the next 25 years.
Alan Gin is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and his Master’s of Arts and Ph.D. degrees, both in Economics, from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Professor Gin came to the University of San Diego in 1988, after having previous taught at Loyola Marymount University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. His work experience includes stints with the Community Development Department of the County of Fresno and the Public Works Department of the City of Oxnard.
Professor Gin is one of the affiliated faculty members of the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. His other research interests include local public finance, urban transportation, and the economy of San Diego. On the latter subject, he is best known for developing and publishing the University of San Diego’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators for San Diego County, a monthly report on the outlook for the local economy. Professor Gin’s insights on the local economy have made him a popular source for interviews, and he has given over 1,000 interviews to local and national media sources. He has been quoted in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Daily Transcript, the San Diego Business Journal, Newsweek, and other publications.

DARK - No meeting
2016-12-29 | CA
Happy New Year!

DARK - No meeting
2016-12-22 | CA
Happy Holidays!

"Happy Holidays To You" - Annual Holiday Program
2016-12-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Our annual Holiday program will be held at Liberty Station.
Please register below ONLY IF YOU ARE BRINGING GUESTS to the program. Guest lunches can be paid at the registration table.
Click here to register yourself and your guests.

Jordan Evans - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2016-12-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Dare Mighty Things: Landing a Car on Mars
How does a team tackle the task of sending a 2,000 pound rover on a 350 million mile journey and land it on three nylon ropes within a football field’s length from its intended target? In this talk, Jordan Evans will share how the “crazy” idea of the skycrane landing came to be and some of the many challenges associated with sending a robotic geologist, like the Curiosity Rover, to another planet.
Jordan Evans, an SDSU Aerospace Engineering Alum, manages the Mechanical Systems Division of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, responsible for leading over a thousand engineers and scientists in the development of advanced robotic systems for the exploration of our universe.

Bill McDade - A Rotary Story
2016-12-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Bill McDade, San Diego Rotary Club President 1997-1998 and District Governor 2000-2001, will reflect on his 45 years as a Rotarian and his 15-20 years as a Rotary volunteer orthopedic surgeon in Malawi, Africa.

DARK - No Meeting
2016-11-24 | CA
Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!

Giving Thanks & Giving Back Annual Auction Luncheon
2016-11-17 11:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Arrive by 11:00 to bid on some amazing items in our silent auction. An Opportunity Drawing on some great gifts will also open at 11:00. Enjoy some champagne, wine and mimosas while you shop!
Remember to invite friends, family and co-workers, too.
Register here if you are bringing guests. You can pay for their lunch at the check-in table or asked to be billed.
Thank you for your support of this very important event! This is the Club’s only fundraiser that financially helps support 28 of our service projects totaling over $200,000. We are looking forward to seeing you there and to a very successful auction!

Annual Salute to Military Program
2016-11-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Guest speaker: Kris Peterson, M.D., COL (RET), MC
Please join us in welcoming over 55 veteran and active duty personnel and guests to our program!
Dr. Kris Peterson (COL RET) was deployed to Iraq in 2003. He was the senior psychiatrist deployed at the beginning of the war. He ended up traveling from Southern Iraq to the very North of the Country as the war unfolded. He experienced the highs and lows of combat from a provider/physician psychiatrists point of view. He shares his experiences of the highs of camaraderie and working to help others in stressful circumstances to the lows of seeing people hurt physically and emotionally. Dr. Peterson returned to Iraq in 2011 with his experiences ‘book ending’ the war in Iraq. He will share slides of his tours in combat and talk about his experiences and relationships developed there in country. He is an expert in treating PTSD and will briefly talk about some of the treatments being used to combat this illness and support our Soldiers.
Biography:
Dr. Peterson attended the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York for his undergraduate degree. Graduating from West Point he then went to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda Maryland for medical school. He worked as an intern and resident in Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. He went on to complete a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In the Army, Dr. Peterson has served as the Division Psychiatrist in South Korea with the Second Infantry Division. He was later assigned to his hometown in Tacoma at Madigan Army Medical Center. There, he started the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program and moved on to become the Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Madigan for over seven years. He served as the regional psychiatry consultant for the Western Regional Medical Command, the Child Adolescent Psychiatry Consultant to the Army Surgeon General and the Chair of the Military Issues Committee in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
He served two tours in Iraq one in 2003 with the 101st Airborne Division and the other in 2011 in Tikrit Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division. He has significant understanding and focus for those who struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or suffer the ramifications from numerous family separations publishing articles in Psychiatry Journals as well as writing book chapters on the topics.
Dr. Peterson retired as an Army Colonel in 2012 and now works at Touchstone Life Center PLLC in Lakewood, Washington.

Elizabeth Brown - Cross Border Xpress
2016-11-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Cross Border Xpress: A One of a Kind Landmark Project
After decades of discussion, years of negotiation and months of construction, the Cross Border Xpress (CBX) is finally a reality and it is changing how people cross the US/Mexico Border. Learn about the journey to reality, how the operation works and the opportunities it opens for the future.
Guest Speaker Elizabeth Brown is the Chief Commercial Officer for the Cross Border Xpress. She is an airport specialist, with over 20 years experience in business development, human resources, communications, marketing and air service development.
Cross Border Xpress is an enclosed pedestrian bridge for Tijuana Airport (TIJ) passengers crossing the U.S./Mexico border. After more than seven years of planning, design and permitting with government agencies from both sides of the border, CBX opened for business in December 2015.
Spanning 390 feet, the CBX skywalk is the first ever to connect a facility in the U.S. directly into a foreign airport terminal. Cross Border Xpress serves the approximately 2.4 million passengers who already cross the border as part of their travels, helping them avoid unpredictable, often long delays at congested San Ysidro and Otay Mesa land ports of entry.

Women Peacemakers 2016
2016-10-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Currently in residence at the USD Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice are four women Peacemakers from Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Western Sahara. These women are negotiators, campaign leaders and advocates in their respective countries, fighting for human rights, women’s rights and for peace. On October 27, Jane Anyango of Kenya, Hamsatu Allamin of Nigeria, Khurshid Bano of Pakistan and Fatma Mehdi Hasam of Western Sahara will speak at our luncheon meeting about their work in their countries and help us to understand the situations in a way that we cannot learn from the news.

Steve Breen - Editorial Cartoonist, San Diego UT
2016-10-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Party Lines
Steve Breen’s “Party Lines: The History, Art, and Politics of Editorial Cartoons” examines political cartoons, an art form that brings awareness to political and social issues. “Party Lines” shares over five decades of cartoons created during presidential election years, from past races to 2016, through multiple perspectives. Steve will share his impressions of this year’s Presidential race and politics in general.
Steve got his start in newspapers at the Asbury Park Press in 1994. He has been the editorial cartoonist for the Union-Tribune since 2001. His work is nationally syndicated by Creators News Service and regularly appears in papers throughout the country. Steve is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning (1998, 2009). He also writes and illustrates picture books for children.
You won’t want to miss this!

Tracy Sundlun and Meb Keflezighi
2016-10-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The 2016 Rio Olympics-Up close and personal from Tracy Sundlun and Meb Keflezighi
In this past summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tracy was the Head Manager of the U.S. Men’s Track & Field Team and Meb ran the Marathon. Tracy will share with us a few highlights of his experience at the Olympics, and Meb will tell us about his race, his 4th Olympic experience, all in the context of his incredible unique life story.
Meb is the only athlete in history to win the New York Marathon, the Boston Marathon and an Olympic Medal—impressive feats for someone who had never run a mile until middle school. A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), his record also includes four NCAA championships, 22 National Championships and a place on three United States Olympic teams. None of these achievements came easily: only his resilience, determination and faith led Meb to prevail following some of life’s most challenging and heart-breaking circumstances.

Balboa Park-The Future is in Good Hands
2016-10-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Our grand old lady has served us well for over 100 years. Whether you hike her trails, savor quiet moments or enjoy the treasures of the institutions, our Park is always there.
But with finite resources, an ever-growing population, limited water supply, aging infrastructure and inadequate accessibility, what is the future?
Executive Director Tomas Herrera-Mishler of the Conservancy, Peter Comiskey from the Cultural Partnership and John Bolthouse of the Friends of Balboa Park will share the excitement of the present and future of our beloved icon.

A Vision For East Village South
2016-09-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
A COMPELLING VISION FOR EAST VILLAGE SOUTH
This presentation by Rob Quigley, David Malmuth, and Norm Miller will describe how stakeholders from East Village, Barrio Logan, and the surrounding communities have developed a Focus Plan for East Village South that, unlike the Convadium plan:
• Builds on the existing Community Plan
• Leverages Downtown’s emerging innovation ecosystem
• Complements the booming development activity in East Village; and
• Produces thousands of high-paying jobs and millions in new revenue for the City

Nancy Hughes - Founder, Stove Team International
2016-09-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
Stove Team helps local entrepreneurs establish factories in Latin America. These self-sustaining businesses produce safe, affordable, fuel-efficient cookstoves to replace dangerous open cooking fires.
Why stoves? Smoke from open cooking fires kills more than eight times as many people as does malaria. Daily cooking is the equivalent to mothers and children smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. Four million women and children suffer painful and debilitating burns from their cooking fires. 500 million cook fires emit nearly one billion tons of greenhouse gases each year and cause massive deforestation. An average man, woman or child spends 20 hours each week gathering wood. Wood collection takes valuable time that could be spent at work or school.
In 2007, Nancy Hughes and a team of volunteers from the Eugene Southtowne Rotary Club wrote a Rotary matching grant and invented a small portable stove – the Ecocina, which produces almost no smoke and uses less than half the wood of an open fire. The Ecocina reduced carbon emissions by 68% and particulate matter by over 86%. Aprovecho Research Center has verified that the Ecocina is one of the most efficient “rocket stoves” in the world.
In 2008, StoveTeam International began assisting local entrepreneurs establish sustainable factories to produce Ecocina stoves. The factories, started by using Rotary matching grants, use all local materials and employ only local men and women, important in developing countries where unemployment sometimes exceeds 50%.
For her work, Nancy has been honored as a Rotary White House Champion of Change and has been featured on the PBS Newshour. She is a CNN Hero, and the recipient of the prestigious International Purpose Prize.

Mr./Mrs./Ms. San Diego 2016
2016-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The Past President’s of San Diego Rotary have proudly selected Mrs. Lucy L. Killea as this year’s Mrs. San Diego AND Mr. Leon L. Williams as Mr. San Diego! This is the first time since the award’s inception in 1952 that the award has been given to two individuals.
Join us as we honor these two long time public servants whose careers and accomplishments helped shape San Diego into what it is today.

Dr. Jamie Gates - The Facts About Sex Trafficking in San Diego
2016-09-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States
The ugly truth in our beautiful city is that San Diego is a hot spot for sex and labor trafficking. Dr. Jamie Gates, cultural anthropologist and director of Point Loma Nazarene University’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation, presents research that show how the recruitment of victims is happening in schools and neighborhoods all over the county. Our young people are being groomed into a local commercial sex industry valued at over $800 million a year. We’ll also explore insights on what can be done.
Dr. Jamie Gates co-lead the groundbreaking research project “Measuring the Extent and Nature of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region” (2013-15). He co-chairs the Research and Data Committee of the San Diego County Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and CSEC. He founded and directs the Human Trafficking Research and Data Advisory Roundtable (HT-RADAR) for SD County. He led the university in establishing the Beauty for Ashes Scholarship Fund for survivors of human trafficking to get their college degree. He leads an effort to design and implement a drama-based peer-to-peer human trafficking awareness training in San Diego’s middle and high schools and serves as an expert witness for human trafficking legislation.
