Misa Azuma is a Rotary International Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. She focused on subjects on international human rights during her L.L.M. studies and has participated in extra-curricula activities related to human rights, specifically refugee/ immigration law such as assisting refugee applications and working with immigrants seeking status. She is planning to work in an international organization on human rights. Rotary offers prestigious international scholarships of $30,000 or more for graduate students pursuing careers in fields that support peace and conflict prevention/resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, and economic and community development.
Jarrod Borkat is a 15‐year veteran in the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as MedImmune's Senior Director, External Partnerships & Collaborations. In this role he is responsible for establishing and overseeing broad scale collaborations with universities, non‐profit organizations and government entities, across all the therapeutic areas relevant to MedImmune. MedImmune was founded in 1988 in Gaithersburg and now has a global presence with 2,500 people in the US and UK.
Guest speaker Richard Kreutzberg is writing a book aimed at solving the root cause of the problems of disadvantaged kids - illustrated dramatically by the events in Baltimore this month. The solution is to offer these kids a needs driven curriculum in school rather than the present one-size-fits-all pre-college curriculum that has little to do with furnishing the tools they need to succeed in life and the world of work.
Rotary International Scholars [L-R] Misa Azuma (Japan), Will Todman (England), Jun Sugihara (Japan) and Alessia Thiebaud (Italy) spoke at the 35th Annual Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club's International Night hosted by the Bretton Woods Recreation Center. Governor Bill Fine, President Caesar Kavadoy, President Elect Bob Fuhrman, International Night Chair Melanie Weerakoon, MCs Art Blitz and Judd Gould and Silent Auction Announcers Chinyere Amaeule and Monica Farmer highlighted the evening.
Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising. If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same. Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage. See the link above for details. You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.
We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation. Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation. You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do.
If you shop at Amazon through this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1264058, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases (millions of products) to the charitable foundation of our club. Thank You!