New Member Profiles
Janis McKay
Janis McKay is the Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at San Diego State University. Previously,…
Gavin Pyle
Gavin Pyle serves as a Business Insurance Advisor for Marsh McLennan, formerly Barney & Barney, based here in San Diego….
Steven Kempa
Steven Kempa is a Project Leader and Business Developer at Mc Furhman & Associates. MCFA is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small…
Robert Bushman
Robert (Bob) Bushman is a retired dermatologist. Born and raised in a small town in West Virginia, Bob left for…
Christina Connett Brophy
Christina Connett Brophy has built a decades-long career as a museum executive with extensive curatorial experience and demonstrated success in…
Lex Gillette
Elexis “Lex” Gillette is a blind Paralympic athlete from Raleigh, North Carolina who competes for the United States in T11…
Jonathan Yackley
Association-Rise Up Industries
Jonathan is the Executive Director of Rise Up Industries, an organization whose mission is to minimize gang involvement by providing…
Anjuli Dayal
Anjuli was born and raised in Overland Park, KS. Here parents emigrated from New Delhi, India in the 1970’s, and…
Paul Marcus
Paul Marcus obtained his BA and MA from Boston University and RPI, respectively, and originally hails from Portland, Maine. Just…
Nancy Rohland-Heinrich
Nancy Rohland-Heinrich graduated from St. Cloud State University with a BA in Sociology and Social Work, from National University with…
New Member Profiles
Youth Organization-Reality Changers Tamara is the new President and CEO of Reality Changers, a nonprofit organization that provides youth from disadvantaged backgrounds with academic support, financial assistance and leadership training to become college graduates. Living in San Diego for almost a year now, she is originally from Columbus, Ohio. She left Ohio to attend UCLA…
Museum-Comic-Con Ingrid is the Director of Philanthropy for the Comic-Con Museum. Scheduled to open in Spring 2021, the museum in Balboa Park will be interactive and celebrate the impact of popular culture in everyone’s lives. She is a board member for the San Diego Public Library Foundation and the Epilepsy Foundation, and recently joined the…
Associations-Homeless Kristie is the President and Founder of The Thumbprint Project Foundation, a 501c(3) non profit that aides in the transitional process of homeless children impacted by childhood domestic violence, including human trafficking. Kristie was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. She graduated from Cal Poly where she earned two Bachelors of Science degrees in…
Manufacturing Services, Additional Active Rachel is the Chief Operations Officer for Workshops for Warriors, a nonprofit school founded in 2008 to provide quality training and accredited STEM educational programs for veterans, transitioning service members, and other students to be successful in their chosen manufacturing career field. Rachel grew up in Naples, Florida. She attended the…
Media-Sales & Marketing Sabrina is originally from Argentina. Her dream of coming to the US was fulfilled when she was able to participate in an exchange program during her freshman year in high school. She stayed with a family in Indiana who invited her back to finish her senior year with them. She then attended…
Consultant-Life Care Planning Andrea is a life care planner and nurse practitioner. She works for expert witnesses providing research and writing life-care plans for clients seriously ill or critically injured in life-altering accidents. The data she collects will decide what will be needed for life-long care and is used by attorneys, case managers, insurance carriers…
Genomics Sequencing Kat is the Alliances & Partnerships Manager for Illumina. She grew up on the island of Kauai, and received a scholarship from a local Rotary club that helped fund her college education. She completed her undergraduate at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, her Masters in Engineering at Cornell and her Ph.D. in Biology…
Social Service and Welfare-Burundi Friends Intl Julie is the Executive Director of Burundi Friends International, a local nonprofit working to empower Burundian youth, women and families towards building sustainable communities through education and economic development. Burundi is a land-locked country located in east, central Africa. (Last year, our Rotary International Foundation Grants Committee allocated $3,000…
Law-Litigation Practice, Additional Active Eric is a litigation partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP. He is originally from Long Island, NY. He completed his undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and then attended Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, where he met his wife, Anne. They have been married for 23 years and…
Commercial Lending Revel is the Director of Business Development for Innovative Capital Corporation. He is a 2004 SDSU graduate. Revel’s company recently led a fundraising effort for fellow Club 33 member Jabez LeBret’s Sisu Academy (tuition-free boarding high school for girls) and offered a $5,000 match. They are also rehabbing a residential care facility near…