Events

On Monday, June 8 at 6:30 PM, we will hold an online-only club meeting.  Our speaker will be Rebeca Hernandez-Gonzalez presenting on Brigher Bites. 

Brighter Bites is a nonprofit that creates communities of health through fresh food with the goal of changing behavior among children and their families to prevent obesity and achieve long-term health. Rebeca will introduce the school-based work of Brighter Bites (they service Pecan Springs among many others) and how they adapted their program in March 2020 to address the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak. Please join us to learn more about their produce distributions, partnerships, and how they plan to continue serving our schools, families, and the greater Austin community throughout the summer and into the next school year.

Our meetings are now online using WebEx.

To join the meeting, go to https://ivanmilman.my.webex.com/meet/ivanmilman 

If you have not used WebEx before, see the instructions under WebEx and SET UP below.

About Rebeca:

Rebeca Hernandez-Gonzalez is a bilingual Program Coordinator for Brighter Bites and a Registered Dietitian in Austin, TX. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition with highest honors and completed the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at Austin. 

About Rotary Club of Austin University Area:

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

#1DistrictStrong #PeopleofAction #ServiceAboveSelf #RotaryConnectsTheWorld

WebEx Information

CONNECT via WebEx - Computer, Tablet, Smart Phone

To join the meeting go to https://ivanmilman.my.webex.com/meet/ivanmilman

We will have some tech support available on the meeting chat.

AUDIO ONLY

You can connect this way if you just want to talk and hear, but not be seen.  This is also an option if you are having difficulties with the audio connection on your computer - you can connect to the video via the Internet, and connect to the audio by dialing in on your phone.

Dial the number below and then enter the access code.

United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388 

Access code:  625 311 894 and press ‘#'

SET UP

Web Meetings (or web conferences) differ from watching videos on line (YouTube, Facebook Live, Netflix, etc.) because our club members can interact and participate in the meeting.  Thru the use of your camera and microphone on your desktop or smart device, people in the web meeting can see you (if you allow) via the camera on your desktop or smart device, and you can speak up in the meeting via the microphone on your desktop or smart device.   

Our meetings will be conducted with WebEx.  WebEx is free, and runs on desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones.  You can also dial in on an old school phone or cell phone if you just want to listen in on the meeting (and talk.)

Installation

We recommend installing the app on your computer, tablet or smart phone BEFORE the meeting.

You can install the app by visiting https://www.webex.com/downloads.html/ and following the instructions.

Help

You can learn about joining a WebEx Meeting here:  

https://help.webex.com/en-us/ozygebb/Join-a-Cisco-Webex-Meeting#id_120497

You can join a test WebEx meeting, and install the apps, here:  

https://www.webex.com/test-meeting.html

Bill Stotesbery has been CEO and General Manager of Austin PBS, KLRU-TV, the PBS station serving Austin and Central Texas, since 2004. He has overseen the station’s efforts to become known as one of the leading producing and presenting stations in the PBS system with over a dozen local and regional series and documentaries currently in development or production and more than a dozen Lone Star Emmys in recent years. He has also been instrumental in the expansion of Austin City Limits, the longest running music program in television history

Judy Maggio has served as News & Public Affairs Director for Austin PBS since 2016. She is an Emmy award-winning, veteran journalist with close to 4 decades of experience. Maggio has spent her entire career in Austin, TX. She served as Managing Editor at both KVUE-TV (1981-2003) and KEYE-TV (2003-2014) and was voted Best Anchor in the Austin Chronicle

Vice President of Education, Ben has worked at KLRU-TV for eight years. Prior to joining KLRU, he served as a teacher, school administrator, and university professor of education. He holds particular interests in language acquisition, uses of technology to foster learning, and serving higher-needs communities. Growing up in rural Upstate New York, he could receive public television but only by going on the roof and turning the antenna, thereby knocking out all the commercial channels. He holds a B.A. degree from Princeton (Classics), a M.Ed. from Harvard (School Administration) and a Ph.D. from UT-Austin (Curriculum & Instruction). Benjamin and his wife Claudia Santamaria have two school-aged children they are raising in a bilingual Spanish-English home.

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Joseph Kopser is a serial entrepreneur and expert in energy and national security issues. Currently he serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at Texas.  In addition, he is President of Grayline after he co-founded and served as CEO of RideScout, before it was acquired by Mercedes. He served in the U.S. Army for 20 years earning the Combat Action Badge, Army Ranger Tab and Bronze Star.  He is a graduate of West Point with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and also received a Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2013, he was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for his efforts in Energy and Transportation.  In 2014, RideScout won the U.S. DOT Data Innovation Award and co-authored the book, Catalyst. He is the Chairman of the Board of Advisors for the CleanTX Foundation, an economic development and professional association for cleantech. 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Ben Ramirez III, CEO of Cogitare Global  

About Rotary Club of Austin University Area

 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

 

#1DistrictStrong #PeopleofAction #ServiceAboveSelf #RotaryConnectsTheWorld

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Earl Ameen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Grey Owl Company—a global ADVISORY firm based in Austin, Texas. As Adaptive Strategy Experts with more than thirty-six years of advising public, private and nonprofit-sector leaders around the world, CEO’s hire The Grey Owl Company to provide 20/20 Foresight^sm by distilling complex, complicated or chaotic challenges into simple and elegant narratives. From this, strategies are designed and executed that allow increased velocity of decisioning and pivoting. Therefore, companies grow more steadily while scaling quickly. 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Lynn Osgood, PhD is an urban planner and researcher, and the Founder/Executive Director of Civic Arts. Trained in landscape architecture and urban planning at the University of Virginia, Lynn moved to Austin in 2003, and became Adjunct Faculty at the University of Texas in the School of Architecture where she now teaches on civic engagement and qualitative research.  In 2011 she founded Civic Arts (formerly GO collaborative) and now leads the development of creative placemaking projects for the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace America, and delivers technical assistance services for municipal partners across the United States.

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Mike Yates is on a mission is to transform the k-12 education experience by focusing and fighting for equity, innovation, and action! He is a team leader at Alpha, an innovative, independent school that uses adaptive learning software in place of direct instruction. Mike is also working alongside Teach For America, the Austin Urban Technology Movement, and Mayor Steve Adler’s office to create an Austin School Reinvention Lab where educators can learn new methods of teaching and learning in order to transform their classroom. The lab also serves to help educators dream up and build new models of school.

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Paul spent 13 years in Beijing, China, where he co-founded Zihua Creative - an online learning platform and database that grew to become China’s largest platform for creative tech skills training. At Zihua, Paul led the content and production teams. He also previously worked as Executive Producer for the US State Department-China Govt.-supported Booey Lehoo charity concert. His writing has been published in The Diplomat & Newsweek (Jpn). Paul consulted with senior leadership at several Chinese state-owned enterprises and banks, and taught for two UK Universities on their pre-Master’s Programmes in Beijing. He is currently an honorary associate at Jesus College's Intellectual Forum at the University of Cambridge, where he runs Cambridge Global Conversations - an outreach initiative that covers areas of global interest that lie beyond the abilities of any single or collection of nation states to manage. Paul also serves as a Senior Advisor to an Ethics Foundation.  

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Wayne has served as Chief of Internal Affairs Section for the Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General from April 2004 through November 2008.  He began his law enforcement career as a police officer for the San Marcos Police Department on December 1982.  During his service with San Marcos Police Department, he served and created many positions including a secondary level supervisor.

 

He has also served as a Certified Instructor with both the National White Collar Crime Center and National Insurance Crime Bureau.  He possesses a Training Instructor Certification, School Based Law Enforcement Officer Certification, and Mental Health Officer Certification from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) and Critical Incident Stress Management Certification.  He also obtained certification in “Critical Incident Stress Management” from the International Critical Incident Stress Management Institute.

 

Wayne received his Bachelor of Criminal Justice and Business Management degrees from Texas State University.  He is a Certified Inspector General with the National Association of Inspector Generals.  He has also earned the Certified Public Manager designation from the William P. Hobby Center for Public Service at Texas State University-Round Rock.  He has over 38 years of service with both criminal justice and law enforcement agencies.

 

Wayne was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott as an Advisory Board Member to the “Texas Juvenile Justice Advisory Board”.

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Ilana Redstone is the founder of Diverse Perspectives Consulting and a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the co-author of the recently published book (Oxford University Press) titled, “Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education” and the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series. She leads workshops and consults inside and outside of academia, helping organizations build a climate where open communication and innovation thrive. More information about her work is available at diverseperspectivesconsulting.com. 

 

 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Peter Cazamias is the Senior Vice President Pine Valley Private Wealth. Peter provides succession planning, financial investment modeling, and downside protection to portfolios. He advises clients on international and domestic tax solutions.

Prior to working at Pine Valley, Peter served as Asia Pacific CFO for Insituform Technologies (NASDAQ: AEGN, now “Aegion Corporation”) in Hong Kong, and as a business segment manager at FMC Technologies (now "Technip-FMC") in Houston, Texas. 
 

Peter served our country as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps.  He received his Bachelor’s from Yale University, his JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.   

 

About Jim

 

Jim Vesterman was the CEO of Raptor Technologies, the nation’s leading provider of integrated school safety technologies, from 2012 – 2020 and now sits on the Board of Directors.  Jim grew Raptor from 7,000 K-12 customers to nearly 40,000.  Prior to Raptor, Jim was the founder and Managing Director of Liberty Place Capital, a private equity Search Fund used to find, acquire, and manage a single operating entity.  Jim began his career at Monitor Group, a global strategy consulting firm serving Fortune 500 firms, and Monitor Clipper Partners, a $650 million middle market private equity fund.  Jim served in the United States Marine Corps in the Special Operations forces and was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal for his service in Iraq.  Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

For 19 years Cynthia Lee Chan has been on a high evolutionary journey into the multi-dimensional world of energy. Her educational path into the depths of Classical Feng Shui is a result of prayers requesting guidance on how to best serve the world once her sons grew up and left home. With years of rigorous study, researching, experimenting, gaining knowledge and experience in applying the science of Classical Feng Shui, she moved to Austin, opened her practice, and loved her life there. After a few years, family, friends and clients brought her back to Colorado where she now lives in the enchanting mountains by Boulder. 
 
Cynthia’s passion for Classical Feng Shui continually grows as she sees the profound results that have helped many with tailored strategies to meet individual needs. She is extremely grateful and honored to offer insights and strategies to help relieve suffering, open channels for success, and better understand life through the cyclical forces of the world. 
 

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677

Jon Haveman is widely considered to be one of California’s leading experts on the economics of seaports, goods movement, and international trade policy. He is also an expert in regional economies and local economic development. He is currently a Principal with Marin Economic Consulting, a boutique consultancy providing reports to government agencies, economic development organizations, and other organizations, in addition to providing expert witness services in legal proceedings. Prior to joining Marin Economic Consulting, Dr. Haveman was the Chief Economist at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a founding Principal at Beacon Economics, and the Director of the Economy Program at the Public Policy Institute of California. He has been a Senior Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers and an Economist with the Federal Trade Commission, and he has held a faculty position in the Business School at Purdue University. Dr. Haveman holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. The Rotary Club of Austin University Area has a special focus on education - thru providing books, tutoring and scholarships for those kids who need a helping hand. You can find out more about us at https://austinuniversityrotary.org/

• Go to https://zoom.us/join
• For the meeting ID, enter 846 8427 2677