Events

IJM is the International Justice Mission.  Their mission is to end the business of international trafficking and slavery.  Anthony is the San Francisco Bay Area Director of Strategic Partnerships.  Here is their website:

Jeanette Pohlen is an Assistant Coach of the Stanford Women's Basketball Team.  Prior to being named assistant coach by Kate Paye, Pohlen spent the past two seasons as Director of Player Development. 

A 2011 Stanford graduate with a degree in communication, Pohlen returned to Stanford as a coaching intern in 2021-22 before assuming the player development position she held for the last two years.

Playing for the Cardinal from 2007-11, Pohlen was the 2011 Pac-10 Player of the Year and named to the All-America teams of the Associated Press (first team), USBWA and Wooden Award after averaging 14.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game as a senior. She shot 41.7 percent from behind the arc and made what was then a school-record 96 3-pointers.The Cardinal went to four straight Final Fours during Pohlen's collegiate career, including runner-up finishes in the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and 2010. Overall, Stanford was 137-14 in her four years and dominated the conference, winning the Pac-10 regular-season and tournament titles all four years.

Referencing the 2024 Silicon Valley Index report, Joint Venture Silicon Valley CEO & President Russell Hancock will share trends and analysis of the strength of the Silicon Valley economy and the health of our community.  

Online at www.SiliconValleyIndicators.org, the interactive data hub provides charts and access to the underlying data, links to data sources, and additional related online resources.

Dr. Andrew Reddie, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley, will present National Security in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Does the future of the human race depend on an algorithm? This question will readily come to mind as Dr. Reddie describes the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into the modernization of nuclear weapons and command and control architecture, and outlines the steps superpowers must take to mitigate the risks posed by autonomous technologies used in war.

Rotary Club Menlo Park strongly supports St. Anthony's by volunteering, donating money, turkeys etc. We recently donated $5,000 to help with the production of a movie to better tell their story.  Max Garcia and Rickey Ono, two key people from St. Anthony's will present their new Video and update us on what is going on at St.Anthony's.

Blair Giffords and Mimi Gordon will describe the work that Global Health Connections does in rural Kenya. 

Global Health Connections was founded to connect, engage, and empower individuals to improve the health and sustainability of their communities. GHC believes in empowering individuals and strives to improve the sustainability of villages through community-led learning, mentorship, and opportunity. GHC's focus is on building Community Health and Empowerment Clubs (CHECs) throughout communities in Western Kenya.  They are currently active in 8 villages in Kisii County and 2 in Homa Bay County. In early fall of 2024, thanks to a large Rotary International global grant and Adopt-a-Village sponsors, they will be entering into 4 more villages--1 in Kisii County, 2 in Homa Bay County and 1 in Kajiado County--bringing their total to 14 active villages. They also have 5 self-sustaining and self-governing CHECs, bringing our total number to 19 villages.

Women in traditional villages in Kenya spend hours scouring the countryside for wood to use in their indoor cookstoves. The Health consequences of smoke inhalation are high, as is the cost to the environment. Adding injury to illness, the women are often attacked on their way home with this precious commodity.

Amy Boggs has identified a variety of sources, supports, and infrastructure that would help us to adopt a village to which we could bring solar stoves, and she will introduce this possible project to the club. Participants would help with installation and training, and would also be able to enjoy game drives in the Maasai Mara.

Jack Lekishon is a Maasai elder and has identified Kolong Village, Kenya as a receptive community to whom we could bring solar stoves in the summer of 2025. His timely visit will allow him to present the views of an elder in Kolong Village as well as those of the women in the village. 

Mark Soltau served as content editor for Tigerwoods.com for 20+ years, TOUR Correspondent for Golf Digest and covered the SAn Francisco 49ers, golf, Stanford Athletics and other Bay Area Teams for the San Francisco Examiner. He is the author of Right Place, Write Time, which tells fascinating first hand stores of some of the greatest athletes of all time.  From early childhood games spent on the San Francisco 49ers sidelines where his dad was a star, to documenting first hand Tiger's career from Stanford through all of his major vicotires, Mark shares unique insights from the perspective of one of the most trusted journalists in sports.

Former Rotarians Glen Rojas, David Johnson, and myself were all Rotarians who had met Facebook, Meta, founder, Mark Zuckerberg. They are going to tell their stories.

Glen Rojas was Menlo Park's City Manager during the process of developing the campus of Facebook. Dave Johnson was the Business Development person also for the town of Menlo Park  I own an office building that was the first-ever location for Facebook that Mark Zuckerberg rented.

Get in the giving spirit as we pack groceries for the St Anthony's community! This will be a lovely time for service and fellowship.