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David will share the almost unfathomable story of water poverty right here in the United States. It is estimated that 70,000 Navajo living in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest do not have access to clean running water. This deficit has contributed to the Navajo experiencing the worst outbreak of Covid-19 in the country. David will outline the situation, explain the challenges to accessing water in the Navajo Nation and detail what Rotary is doing to resolve the issue.

David joined Rotary in 2010 after a long career in financial counseling and money management. He led the  Rotary Club of Sedona's project to bring Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to their area in 2012. Since that time, the program has distributed over 100,000 new, age-appropriate books to pre-schoolers in the communities in and around Sedona. He has served as District Governor for District 5495, Rotary Foundation Annual Fund Chair, PETS Chair, District Assembly Chair, Leadership and Development Chair and Visioning Chair. He is a Paul Harris Society member, major donor Level 3, and Legacy Society Member of the Rotary Foundation.

What is the City of San Rafael local government all about? Jim Schutz has been City Manager for almost six years and will share what the City of San Rafael does. He will talk about recent changes in elected officials and elections, and will answer questions about whatever is on your mind - from economic recovery to housing and homelessness, and from wildfire prevention to pensions. No topic is off limits.

Jim Schutz has been the City Manager for the City of San Rafael since August, 2015. He was previously Assistant Manager since 2007. He has worked in management roles for cities as small as 20,000 people and as large as over 1,000,000. Jim has a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara and a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Between college and graduate school Jim served two years in the Peace Corps.

Who am I without my professional and familial identity: For example, when I retire, or when members of my family move away or die? What does it mean to have parts of myself stripped away? The questions are fundamental to King Lear, the play that Shakespeare wrote in 1605. A king sheds his responsibilities, and finds, to his shock, that he loses his social respect and position, and his very sense of self, along with his former authority. Yet in this drama about a once-mighty king, Shakespeare has also created one of the world's great family dramas, chronicling Lear's painful acquisition of self-knowledge and a measue of wisdom.

Philippa Kelly (PhD Shakespeare) is Resident Dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater and for Remote Theater Project, and has served as production dramaturg for many theaters, including Napa Shakes, The Aurora Theatre, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Word for Word, The Bell Theatre, the Acting Company, and the San Diego Shakespeare Society. A Fulbright, Rockefeller, Walter and Eliza Hall and Commonwealth Scholar, and co-recipient of a Bly Award from the literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas for Innovation in Dramaturgy, Philippa has published extensively on Shakespeare and on various theatre topics. Her Arden book, The King and I, illuminates King Lear through the lens of Australia's history of outcasting. Her Run the Canon series at Cal Shakes presents original 12-minute video talks on Shakespeare's canon: https://calshakes.org/cal-shakes-online/run-the-canon/  In 2020, Philippa was awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities grant to support dramaturgical innovations that highlight ways in which dramaturgs are working today to re-think and re-frame theater practice.