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The Youth Poster Contest's mission is to provide an inclusive and unique messaging platform for Marin youth to express their hopes and concerns about social justice, health, climate change, women's rights, firearms regulation, immigration, discrimination, and other vital issues. Our purpose is to stimulate creative ideas, problem-solving skills, collaboration, and use art to inform,challenge, and inspire the greater community to take action and make a difference. This talk will overview the poster contest, provide samples of the students' work, prizes, awards, and other details.

Bruce retired as an internationally respected cross-sector partnership and cause marketing expert. Over his career, Bruce developed highly successful partnerships between the for-profit, nonprofit, education, and government sectors. Bruce served as Public Affairs Manager for Marriott Corporation, Public Relations Director for the U.S. Olympic Committee, and Director of Marketing & Communications for the American Red Cross Bay Area. In addition, he founded three for-profit companies and three nonprofit organizations. Bruce was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award for spearheading the Tenderloin After-School Program in San Francisco's crime-ridden Tenderloin District.

Bruce received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the United States Congress, the Certificate of Recognition from the California Legislature, and several other honors. Bruce has served on the Board of Directors or Advisory Boards of eighteen nonprofit organizations. 

Bruce authored the highly-acclaimed book, Win-Win for the Greater Good.

When cancer is detected early, the survival rates and patient outcomes are much better. Unfortunately, 71% of cancer deaths are due to cancers that currently have no recommended screening. These cancers are usually found at a late stage, once a patient presents with physical symptoms. New technology, studied at the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Dana Farber Institute, UCSF, and elsewhere, has shown promising results in detecting many different cancers in early stages through a simple blood draw, allowing patients to screen for many cancers at once and physicians to intervene earlier when cancer is detected. 

Jin Yun is a pharmacist and received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan.  Prior to his current role with Grail, he worked at various pharmaceutical and biotech companies covering hematology and oncology.  Earlier in his career he served as a clinical pharmacist in the PBM and managed care world most recently with Blue Shield of California working in the market strategy and analytics department supporting pharmacy services for employers, unions, health systems, and government organizations. 

U.S.-Russian relations have fallen to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War. Moscow has interfered in U.S. domestic politics, continued a simmering conflict against Ukraine, and cracked down on domestic protest, all the while asserting that the United States is encroaching on Russia's sphere of influence and even seeking to bring down the Kremlin regime. Can the Biden administration shape and pursue a policy that pushes back against egregious Russian misbehavior while cooperating on areas such as nuclear arms control, where U.S. and Russian interests coincide? 

Gareth Loy, half of the Tenaya Guitar Duo, will play music of Bach and others, performed and recorded earlier by himself and playing partner, Jonathan Braun. He will provide commentary on the music. 

Gareth is a musician and award-winning composer. He has published widely and, during a long and successful career at the cutting edge of multimedia computing, has worked as a researcher, lecturer, programmer, software architect, and digital systems engineer. He is President of Gareth, Inc., a provider of software engineering and consulting services internationally.

From Bordeaux, France to San Francisco, California: Janis' talk follows a Franco-American couple and their two young sons across the Atlantic Ocean and into a 10-year journey overseas. Through their adventures and misadventures, tragedies, and glories across four continents, the Couvreux Family rarely had a dull moment living on the water. Janis chronicles in vivid and lively detail how they fended off a midnight intruder, sailed to the microscopic St. Peter and St. Paul rocks on the equator, explored the jungles of French Guiana and Devil's Island, and sailed through Cuba during the turmoil of the late 80s. Their adventure was not without hardship, however, as Janis recounts battling medical emergencies that required sending her husband across the globe for treatment (twice), leaving her to single-handedly orchestrate a Panama Canal passage amid pre-war chaos. While living in the vclose quarters of their 42-foot sailboat, the Cowabunga, the Couvreux family was able to maintain sanity and a normal routine of cooking, schooling and sleeping at sea, knowing all the while that something unexpected might be waiting around the next peninsula.

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