Speakers

Speaker	Date	Topic
Stephanie Rogers of Story Jam	Feb 10, 2026	Storytelling workshop-telling the story of ELRC project and impact
Club Assembly	Feb 17, 2026	Discussion of Signature Project Club assembly discussing: History of our current signature project Should we have a signature project If so: what should it be how long should it run how to measure the impact
Steven Rogers	Feb 24, 2026	Letter to My White Friends & Colleagues: What you can do now to help the Black Community Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) Faculty in 2019. He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.” A 1985 graduate of the school, Professor Rogers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. Prior to HBS, he taught in the MBA and PhD programs at Northwestern University. He received the Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive MBA Program 26 times and daytime program twice. Both are records. In 2023, he purchased a church in Evanston, Illinois for $1 million that sits on land taken from Black families in 1929. Jackie Mack is the host.va
Ricardo Villalobos	Mar 03, 2026	Evanston Latinos Current events are having a tremendous impact on our Latino community. We will hear from Ricardo Villalobos, the Executive Director of Evanston Latinos to learn more. Hosted by Jose Lopez.
TBA	Mar 10, 2026	TENTATIVE: What it means to be a McCarther Genius Hosted by Linda Gerber.
Program Committee	Mar 17, 2026	Limerick Challenge! Top of the morning to yer! Join us for fun and fellowship. Hosted by your Irish-American program committee members.
Sarah Kaiser	Mar 24, 2026	Understanding DEI through art Presented by our own Sarah Kaiser. Hosted by the DEI committee.
Zbig Skiba	Mar 31, 2026	Update on Climate Technology We will hear again from our colleague, Zbig Skiba. There has been much new in climate news over the past few months, and he has substantially more information to share. Hosted by the Environmental Committee.
Shereemer Chevannes	Apr 07, 2026	Housing Advocacy Sereemer Chevannes, from Connect2Home, will give us an Affordable Housing overview and dive deeper into both the Comprehensive Plan and Housing4All. Hosted by the Housing Committee.
RI President-elect Olayinka Babalola	Apr 14, 2026	Rotary International - State of the Union We are privileged to have Rotary International's President-Elect Babalola come to speak to our Club. Hosted by Jackie Mack.
Dale Bradley and Mike Merdinger	Apr 21, 2026	Investing at the leading edge What is the deal with crypto? Does investing in AI make sense? Join our own Dale and Mike for an interesting investment update.
Rebecca Clarendon	Apr 28, 2026	How can non-English-speaking refugee children go to school and succeed? We will hear from Rebecca Clarendon, the Executive Director of FORA, Forging Opportunities for Refugees in American. She will explain how FORA's work ensures that refugee families are provided access to an education sufficient to prepare them to become economically self sufficient and robustly engaged in American civic life.Hosted by Linda Brennan
TENTATIVE: Emmanuel Katongole	May 05, 2026	RI work in Uganda -- how can we help? District-Elect Board Member from Uganda, Emmanuel Katongole, will visit our club to give us the bigger picture of what RI is doing in Uganda -- and how our Club can increase our impact there. Hosted by Maribeth Cleary and the International Services Committee.
Raffle Project Team	Jun 02, 2026	ELRC Raffle Fundraising Celebration We'll be drawing for our Grand Prize winner and talking about plans for the 2026-27 year.