Events

Motivated by love of the ocean, Tami Mulcahy serves as co-chair of EndPlasticSoup, the ESRAG (Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group) global initiative to end plastic pollution. Through in-depth, data driven presentations, Tami delivers eye opening realities of pervasive plastic in our lives and pragmatic solutions to UnLearn UnNecessary plastic.

Beyond what we see in the environment, plastic is an insidious creep on human health, particularly fetal and child development, and the health of all living things. From production to consumption, society and the planet bear massive invisible costs. Reduce. Rethink. Restore. Tami also serves as co-chair of the ESRAG Task Forces - to promote, empower and interconnect planet solutions in a One Health Approach to project development.

https://endplasticsoup.org/

Garth Illingworth, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics UC Santa Cruz

Garth Illingworth has been exploring for the earliest galaxies in the first 1-2 billion years of the Universe. His early work was on globular clusters and nearby ellipticals, but then with the advent of the powerful instruments on Hubble he transitioned to working on distant galaxies. This search over the last 15-20 years has been enabled by the world's most powerful telescopes, the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea. Central to his research has been to use Hubble to look back through 96% of all time to find and measure incredibly faint, young galaxies that are the seeds that have grown into galaxies today, like our Milky Way.

John Keene was appointed Chief Probation Officer in June of 2013. Chief Keene brings more than 20 years of law enforcement experience to his role. Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Chief Probation Officer in Alameda County.  The vision of the San Mateo County Probation Department is to be a proactive and innovative agency which facilitates positive changes in offenders' behaviors that reduce recidivism and foster a law-abiding lifestyle.

In a powerful reflection of its mission, the department recently celebrated a major milestone: On May 28, 2025, eight young people graduated from the San Mateo County Youth Services Center. Wearing purple gowns and personalized caps, the graduates were honored alongside their families in a ceremony filled with pride and hope. Among them, three earned college degrees through the Probation Department’s partnership with Project Change’s Rising Scholars Program. Two graduated cum laude and will transfer to San Francisco State University.

https://canadacollege.edu/projectchange/