New Member Profiles
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…
Vino Pajanor
Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Appaswamy “Vino” Pajanor’s family traditions led him toward a professional career as an attorney,…
Charles Baylis
Charles started his career in the semiconductor industry, working for Applied Materials in Santa Clara. He and a co-worker at…
Natasha Bliss
Natasha Bliss serves as Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Partnerships within San Diego State University’s Division of Research…
Meredith Munger
Meredith Munger is a loan officer at CrossCountry Mortgage with a focus on helping families to buy, build, renovate and…
New Member Profiles
Andrea Brito-Bokosky is a retired registered nurse and childbirth educator. She was born and raised in Point Loma, and started her community service with her mom who signed her up as a Candy Striper at Mercy Hospital. Her mother, Mary Brito, was very involved with community service and, by example, Andrea has followed in her…
Richard Perlman is a retired hand surgeon whose private practice primarily involved reconstructive surgery for problems with the hand and wrist. He was in practice here in San Diego from 1971 until his retirement in 2020. Richard was born in Brooklyn, NY and graduated first from Princeton University before pursuing his medical degrees from Columbia…
Dr. Tami Foy is the CEO and Executive Director of San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation. Tami is originally from Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, OH, where she spent her formative years before moving to San Diego and attending Mira Mesa High School. She then continued to pursue higher degrees from National University,…
Jon Schwartz is the Senior Manager of Accounting for Shield AI, a defense contractor and software development and drone manufacturing organization whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems by creating AI pilots powering military assets such as aircraft, drones, ships, satellites and submarines. Jon is CPA with thirty-one years of…
Latanya West was born in San Diego and grew up in Los Angeles. After graduating from UC Berkley, she worked first in the entertainment industry as a tele coordinator for the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and in corporate media relations at NBC Studios. She also taught school for 13 years in the Pasadena Unified…
Emily Schnetz-Murphy is a rare disease specialist for BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, a company whose focus is to discover and commercialize new small molecules to treat patients with rare diseases. As a field based Rare Disease Specialist, her role is to educate healthcare providers on appropriate treatment of patients with Hereditary Angioedema, a potentially life threatening swelling…
Laura O’Sullivan is the Director of Philanthropy and Donor Engagement at San Diego Youth Services. She came to San Diego Youth Services in 2023 after previously serving on their board of directors from 2012-2018. Laura has been working in the San Diego philanthropy sector for more than 20 years. She began her career at Qualcomm…
Maya Madsen is the founder and CEO of Maya’s Cookies, America’s #1 Black-Owned Gourmet Vegan Cookie Company. As a vegan with a sweet tooth she had not been able to find perfectly delicious, soft-baked gourmet vegan cookies, so she spent years crafting award-winning and crowd pleasing recipes. She started her gourmet cookie business in 2015 by…
David Ostrander is a retired cardiologist who practiced medicine at Sharp Rees Stealy Medical Group for the majority of his career. He was born in Detroit, MI, attended Yale University as an undergraduate, NYU for medical school, and then did his residency at the University of Chicago before starting his fellowship at U.C.S.D. He and…
Michael Kemmer has lived all of his life in California, and half of that in San Diego. As long as he’s been here, he’s viewed Rotary as a part of his tie into the fabric of the community. He grew up under the tutelage of Rotarians first as an Interact student, and later as an…