Programs2018 Program schedule Tuesday, March 13 - Bianca Shaw, Program Director Police & Resident Listening Circles: The Zeidler Center's largest program Bianca is a native of Milwaukee whose passion is to assist in making positive changes within the city of Milwaukee. She is a recent graduate of the WI Women's Network Policy Institute and Emerge WI 2017. She describe herself as an: Activist - Advocate - Facilitator - Hard Working Woman and she will bring her daughter with her to meet us. She also works on intergenerational women's dialogues, launching My Sister's Keeper: An Intergenerational Dialogue of Black Women in 2017. President - Elect Training Seminar March 2-5 (PETS) -Gustavo de Arriba, Tre Waldren, and Angela Rester attended the PETS training in the Chicago area two weekends ago. It was filled with great Rotary information and ways to strengthen our clubs and find people who want to be about the high ethical standards of Rotary, its commitment to service both locally and internationally, and most important, working toward world peace in REAL ways...not just word. Tre and Angie were joined by 2020-2021 District Governor Steen Sanderhoff. District Governor 2018-2019 Kola Alayande leads a president-elect session. Current District Governor Jeff Reed with Past District Governor Mary Beth Seiser. Tre doing a "virtual" polio immunization day. Incoming International Rotary Board Director an 1998-1999 District Governor (DG classmate with Angie back when there were only 9 women of the 527 Districts in the World) Stephanie Urchick speaking to the attendees from 7 Districts at the PETS training. Are you interested in learning more about becoming a Rotarian? Please contact Angie at pdgrestersamse@aol.com Previous Programs John Nyakoe Nyasani - John was born and raised in Eldoret Kenya, East Africa. At 13 he knew he wanted to come to the United States and study. He vividly remembers being a child in his village and the community set up a screen and showed a movie....the first time anyone in their village saw a movie. One scene had a locomotive come straight at the audience and he recalls everyone moving out of the way. It was his introduction to technology that has remained through today. His father is a retired Agriculturalist and is a farmer. His mother owns a boutique and sells clothes. They were strong examples of curiosity, work ethic, and determination for John. They also own a tea farm in Kenya. John emigrated to Minneapolis, MN at 17 years of age. He is married to Cassandra (from Milwaukee and why we are fortunate to have him in our community. He is the father of Jordan and Candyce and has lived in Milwaukee since 2010. Currently he is the IS Business Automation Specialist / Health Reports Coordinator with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. John is very engaging and passionate about life and his faith. Gustavo de Arriba - Gustavo is originally from Spain and has been the Director of Global Quality for Johnson Controls since April 2017 but came to Milwaukee with Johnson Controls in May 2016. He has worked for Johnson Controls for 18 years and came to Milwaukee after working in Germany since 2009. He loves being challenged and getting outside of his comfort zone. He changed his professional field of work for the challenge. He is learning Mandarin after being proficient in Spanish, English, and German and has basic French and Italian as well. He is an Industrial Engineer with his MBA. He's been married since 2000 and the couple have 5 children. Gustavo loves rugby, has run 4 marathons and hopes to begin training to do his first US marathon in Chicago. Gustavo is another wonderful conversationalist and like John, can talk about many topics and interests. |