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"Modern Dairy Industry & It's Contribution to Kansas Economy"
Feb 21, 2023 12:00 PM
Raised on a small family dairy farm northwest of Wichita, Jill Seiler learned the value of hard work and found a passion for the food and ag industry. She pursued that interest at Kansas State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in agriculture focusing on agricultural communications and journalism. Today she helps tell the stories of agriculturists in her role as digital marketing analyst at American AgCredit. In her free time, she still manages to get in the milk barn a few times a month. Jill also enjoys gardening, perfecting her homemade pasta recipe (with lots of cheese) and spending time with her nephews.
Dairy is one of the fastest growing commodities in Kansas, but the farm of the future doesn’t necessarily look like what you may think. This presentation will explore what a modern dairy farm looks like, the technology available to farmers and the impact of the dairy industry on our local economy.
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Union Rescue Mission
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 PM
Doug Nolte has been the CEO of the Union Rescue Mission since January 2019. Prior to leading the team at the URM, Doug was a Captain on the Wichita Police Department, serving almost 27 years. Doug desires to see the lives of the men and families the URM works with be restored to and through Christ. Doug has embraced the role of rescue, recovery, restoration, and re-engagement in a person’s life. He has often said, “Everyone needs to be rescued!” |
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"Spring Garden Buzz with Marty Johnson"
Mar 07, 2023 12:00 PM
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Wichita Wind Surge
Mar 14, 2023 12:00 PM
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Fresno State University, California, in 2008, Bob then began working for a casual luxury retailer. Although he worked up to a management role, where he was leading a team of 1,000+ workers, after eight years with the company, Bob decided to make a major career change. In 2013, Bob took an internship with the California League, Colorado Rockies affiliate, Modesto Nuts. In this position, he was responsible for many different responsibilities including developing of the Nuts' social media, marketing, and advertising platforms.
In the fall of 2016, Bob joined the then-named New Orleans Zephyrs as the team embarked on a complete rebrand, transforming into the Baby Cakes. The Baby Cakes rebranding was hugely successful, resulting in over three-quarters of million dollars in merchandise revenue, in a little over one year. Following the 2017 season, Bob was promoted to assistant general manager. In this role, he was responsible for marketing; social media; and all game day responsibilities, employees, training, and the internship program. Thanks to his previous experience in the retail management and internet marketing industries, Bob was able to apply his versatile skills to many aspects of his baseball responsibilities.
Bob moved once again from New Orleans to Wichita as he excitedly joined in the process to aid in the building of the Wichita Wind Surge brand. Previously serving as Director of Fan Experience, he was responsible for the many aspects of the business as it related to the fan experience. He now serves as the team's General Manager.
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City Council District 5
Mar 21, 2023 12:00 PM
Council Member Bryan Frye is a lifelong Wichitan with deep roots in the community. Raised in east Wichita, Frye moved to the west side 16 years ago. He's a graduate of Wichita Southeast High School and Wichita State University with a B.A. in Marketing.
A firm belief in giving back to the community is what lead Frye to his current position as District V City Councilperson. Prior to being elected in April 2015, Frye served eight years on the District V Advisory Board and eight years on the Wichita Board of Park Commissioners with the last five years as President. He's currently a board member of Visit Wichita, the Arts Council and Historic Wichita Cowtown. Frye has also held leadership positions for numerous non-profit groups over the years including Botanica, Music Theatre Wichita, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sedgwick County, Wichita State Alumni Association and the Wichita Wagonmasters.
Frye currently works for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce as the Senior Director of Investor Relations. Previously, he's been a marketing director at a local distribution company and two different local television stations.
Councilman Frye is married to wife Sheila and together they have two children.
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Bleckley Foundation
Mar 28, 2023
Co-Founders of the Bleckley Foundation are Doug Jacobs, LTC US Army Retired, and Wichita’s Greg Zuercher, Iraqi/Afghan Vet. The Bleckley Foundation was established to honor Wichita’s native aviator and WWI Medal of Honor recipient Erwin R. Bleckley’s legacy and artifacts at Eisenhower National Airport. The key artifacts will include a life sized bronze statue and an historic 1918 De Havilland 4 aircraft. The airplane has been undergoing restoration after an accident in 2020 and is being restored to airworthy status. |
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PETS Highlights
Apr 04, 2023 12:00 PM
Our upcoming Club Presidents: Colby Reynolds (2023-24) and Ed Frey (2024-25), attended the Heartland PETS (President Elect Training Seminar) last weekend. Today, they will give us an overview of the information from the seminar and how it can be implemented in our club. Rotary Vision 2023 ~ "Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves." |
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Culinary Arts program
Apr 11, 2023 12:00 PM
Our club meeting will be held at Maize Career Academy, 11700 W45th Street N, Maize (basically 119th and 45th). Don't go to RHCC! Lunch will be prepared and served by the Culinary Arts students. Park at the Maize Career Academy lot in front of their main entrance. It is located on the SW corner of Maize High School. It is suggested that you are parked by 11:40 in order to be sure to get a parking spot. It starts filling up at about 11:45. Enter through the doors of MCA, present ID, and you'll get a badge. Cara Poole is in her 17th year of teaching; her 11th year at Maize. She teaches Culinary Essentials, Baking & Pastry, Culinary Arts, and Culinary Applications. They do a variety of activities in the community, including internships, community service, and teambuilding days. ProStart and FCCLA students compete in culinary, management, food science, and entrepreneurship competitions. Throughout the year, they cater a variety of school and community events, including their recent Maize Rec Dad/Daughter Dance and Maize Education Foundation breakfast. Their students graduate with their ServSafe Manager's certificate and an abundance of hands-on experience. They go to a variety of career paths, including many in the hospitality industry. |
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Music Theatre Wichita
Apr 18, 2023 12:00 PM
A graduate of Vanderbilt University and Arizona State University, Angela joined Music Theatre Wichita as development director in 2013. Prior to coming to Wichita, Angela was artistic operations director of The Florida Orchestra and general manager of the Omaha Symphony. At MTWichita, Angela enjoys working directly with donors and friends of the organization to create incredible art and educational opportunities for the Wichita community. She and her husband, David Hunsicker—who is a trumpet player and WSU professor, have two sons, Noah and Luke. |
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FOSTER ICT
May 02, 2023 12:00 PM
Jill is a passionate speaker and excited about all things foster care. Listen to her stories and experiences, and your heart will begin to break for children and a fire will ignite within your spirit to make a difference. Jill is fueled by her love to see children and parents thrive in all circumstances.
Jill speaks from her own experiences (providing insider information) as a former foster child in the Kansas System. After aging out of the system, she enrolled in college majoring in psychology. She has one biological child and has adopted four out of foster care. She was a foster parent in Omaha, NE for 16 years, and has been fostering in Kansas for 5 years and counting. She has had over 300 children in her home (long-term, respite, and PPC).
Jill has extensive experience with RAD, and sexual abuse victims. She is a Nationally Certified Parent Support Provider (Federation of Families; Washington, DC), Circle of Security parenting trainer, Trauma Informed Care (ACES, Vicarious Trauma) trainer, TIPPS-MAPP trainer, former CASA worker, and has worked in child welfare for 25 years.
“It can take ten minutes out of one person’s day to change the trajectory of a child’s life forever.”
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“Entrepreneurship, Ethnicity, and the Story of Wichita”
May 09, 2023 12:00 PM
Sue Abdinnour from the Barton School of Business and Robert E. Weems, Jr. and Jay M. Price from the Department of History are trying to understand the variety of ethnic entrepreneurs in this city. For Weems, Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History, this project builds on a significant oral history project involving African American business leaders. Abdinnour and Price have worked on a number of local entrepreneur history projects including a study of Lebanese business families, a mapping study of ethnic businesses on North Broadway, and the history of Pizza Hut for the exhibit to be located in the original Pizza Hut on Wichita State University’s campus. Currently, they are in the middle of an oral history project to collect the stories of Wichita’s ethnic entrepreneurs as part of the Stories For All digital humanities project. |
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KSN Chief Meteorologist
May 16, 2023 12:00 PM
Emmy Award-winning meteorologist Lisa Teachman is Chief Meteorologist of the KSN Storm Track 3 Weather Team.
Born and raised in the Wichita suburb of Haysville, Ms. Teachman is excited and proud to return to her hometown. KSNW-TV is where she began her broadcasting career in 1996 as a meteorology intern under the leadership of the station’s former Chief Meteorologist, Dave Freeman, who retired in May 2017. Upon completing her undergraduate studies at Wichita State University and Mississippi State University, Lisa went on to serve weather teams in Huntington, WV; Baltimore, MD; and Kansas City, MO.
Ms. Teachman has earned the American Meteorological Society “Seal of Approval”. In 2018, she was recognized by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for having the best weathercast in Wichita. She brings nearly 20 years of professional experience to her role at KSN News 3, including 10 years of forecasting severe weather in Kansas and Missouri. In 2011, she reported live from Joplin in the hours following the catastrophic EF5 tornado that struck the city. She saw her first tornado in Moundridge, KS, in 2012.
Her passion for meteorology began in her youth. Her father is a Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service volunteer, assisting in emergency communications for Sedgwick County. Her hometown was hit twice by devastating tornadoes in 1991 and 1999.
In her spare time, you’ll find Lisa taking her 3 dogs for long walks with her husband. She also loves country music and eating as much BBQ as she can!
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Author of "Designed in Kansas City"
May 23, 2023 12:00 PM
Kansas City is the “sports design capital of the United States”. That’s what Architecture magazine proclaimed in July 1992. Prior to, and since, there have been multiple newspaper, magazine, television and internet stories regarding the subject. But to date, no extensive, detailed written examination and account of its birth and maturing has occurred. Until now. Kansas City sports architect Tom Waggoner, AIA has written Designed in Kansas City- How Kansas City Became the Sports Architecture Capital of the World. His presentation will provide an overview of this amazing 55-year history and of the firms that helped define it. Tom Waggoner, AIA is a 1982 graduate of the College of Architecture & Design at Kansas State University. In 1988 after 6 years practicing general architecture at several Kansas City-based firms, he launched his career working in the sports facility design industry at newly established Ellerbe Becket Kansas City. Following three years working on the renovation of New York’s Madison Square Garden, he and other architects began designing an expansion and renovation to famed Notre Dame Stadium. From 1991 to 2022 his sole focus has been the planning and design of collegiate sports facilities- football stadiums, basketball arenas and athletic training/rehabilitation/academic centers. He was co-founder of Bredar Waggoner Architects in 2000, and soon thereafter joined CDFM2. In 2004 he and others founded 360 Architecture. Following 10 successful years he assisted in 360’s acquisition by HOK. In 2020 he transitioned into a consulting role and established T Waggoner Design + Consulting. Waggoner has served on the Architecture Planning and Design (ADP) Deans Advisory Council at his alma mater. He has also served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committees for the Kansas City Zoo, Starlight Theatre and The Greater Kansas City Sports Commission. In addition, he was a founding member of KC Global Design- a civic organization that focuses on promoting 3 primary areas of the built environment- awareness, talent and innovation. He has lectured on the subject of collegiate athletic facility design at annual workshops and conferences held by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, and Women Leaders in College Sports. He continues to make presentations on the history of sports architecture and its ties to Kansas City. In early 2022 he published Designed in Kansas City- How Kansas City Became the Sports Architecture Capital of the World- a book he spent 5 years researching and writing. Waggoner lives in Fairway, Kansas with his wife Peggy Perry Waggoner. She is a university Clinical Assistant Professional employed for most of her career by the Hearing & Speech Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center. They have two daughters both working in the Architecture-Engineering-Construction industry in Kansas City. |
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Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention
Jun 06, 2023 12:00 PM
Larry Kenemore is the North America Task Force Leader for Rotary Action Group Addiction Prevention (RAG AP) and the representative to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime Special Consultative Status for Rotary. He is retired as a Paramedic in San Diego, CA and currently resides in Siloam Springs, AR where he is a member of their local Rotary club. He and his team are traveling across Kansas this week to launch Project SMART to eradicate the opioid and overdose crisis. Project SMART = School Education Medicine and Drug Disposal Awareness. Naloxone Training (opioid overdose antidote) Recovery Treatment. Taken from https://www.rag-ap.org/en: The Rotary Action group for Addiction Prevention is a group of Rotarians whose goal is to mobilize Rotarians and to offer worldwide leadership to tackle problems as drugs abuse and addiction in all its forms. This Rotary Action group operates in accordance with the policies of Rotary International but is not an agency of, or is not controlled by, Rotary International. Vision and Mission Substance abuse and addiction of illicit drugs is a global problem and can only be addressed by the joint efforts of all worldwide organizations including governments. In a combined, structured and sustained action, the mission of the Rotarian Action Group for Addiction Prevention is to strengthen those efforts by organizing an international group of Rotary specialists and activists to develop constructive plans of action to be used to initiate prevention of addiction and illicit drugs. Within Rotary the group will work to inform, stimulate, support and advise clubs and districts how to tackle the problem in a structural long-term manner, with vision and a strategy. They will offer Rotarians a quarterly newsletter, website and opportunities to interact and share ideas for awareness and prevention at conferences and conventions. Founded in February 2013 and recognized by Rotary International in January 2016, we now operate in more than 42 countries and 45 districts... in accordance with Rotary International policy. Our aim is to:
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"NEVI" (program to install charging stations for electric vehicles)
Jun 13, 2023 12:00 PM
Tami Alexander joined the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) in May of 2022 as the Transportation Electrification Manager to work on state planning for EV charging and electric transportation. Prior to joining KDOT, she worked for Metropolitan Energy Center as a Senior Program Coordinator and the Central Kansas Clean Cities Coordinator where she led the statewide EV Corridor Planning Group. Since 2017, she has worked on transportation programs for electric and alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure and educated the public, businesses, and governments on alternative fuels, EVs, and EV charging equipment. Tami earned her undergraduate degrees and a Master’s in Environmental Science from Wichita State University. She is proud to be a life-long Kansan and lives in Wichita with her husband and their three children.
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Bike Walk Wichita
Jun 20, 2023 12:00 PM
Matt Thibault is a proud Wichita native who enjoys giving back to his community. He is a bicycling advocate who believes that the bike is so much more than a piece of exercise equipment or purely for recreation - it is one of the single most effective tools we have for enhancing all areas of human well-being. Matt currently serves in the role of Board President for Bike Walk Wichita, where he gets to work with others to help make walking and bicycling in Wichita more safe and equitable for all. In his day job he works as a project manager for an affiliate of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, the Kansas Business Group on Health.
Kim Neufeld serves as the Executive Director for Bike Walk Wichita, a local non-profit organization, since 2019. In addition, Kim is also employed by the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, overseeing health policy efforts within cities across the county. Kim has worked for local government and the non-profit community in Sedgwick County for the past 20 years and collaborates closely with Wichita's local business and art communities. Kim is passionate about engaging residents to find simple solutions and to share with local decision makers.
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Jun 27, 2023 12:00 PM
We will wind up our Rotary year at today's meeting with highlights of the year shared by Committee Chairs, followed by our annual Passing of the Gavel through our Past Presidents over the years to incoming Club President, Colby Reynolds. Our thanks to Club President, Joey Timmer, and our Board for their leadership this year! No meeting next week, July 4, due the holiday. Plan to join us on July 11 at Rolling Hills Country Club for our Semi Annual Committee meetings to make plans for the new Rotary year. |
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Jul 04, 2023
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Committees will meet to discuss plans for our new Rotary year
Jul 11, 2023 12:00 PM
Plan to sit with your committee when you arrive! Club Service: Annie Pfeifer - Chair
Sean Babjak, Christy Barnett, Mark Chamberlin,
Marv Fisher, Dan Kreis, Colin McKenney, Bob Nelson, Colby Reynolds, DeAnn Sullivan, Joe Terick, Mindy Wagner, Sharon West
Community Service: Jacob Beckman - Chair
Jodi Besthorn, Heidi Bowen, Roger Bowles, Bob Broeckelman, Rod Brown, Bob Bundy, Terry Gardner, Vern Klassen, Mike Ludlow, Tony Morrow, Zella Newberry, Bruce Pearson, Jon Roper, Allan Sands, Lori Taylor, Ann Welborn
Vocational Service: Scott Hinderliter - Chair
Dave Abbott, Randy Bowles, Stephanie Flaming, Brian Turney
International Service: Mark Hansen – Chair
June Costin, Diana Fredelake, Ed Frey, Brian Goudie, Maurice Linnens, Michael Phipps
Foundation: Monty Allen - Chair
Bob Benson, Bob Goebel, Brent Groves, Cindy Hand, Stan Krehbiel, Phil Michel, John Mosley, John Oswald, Dale Rein, Pat Walden
Membership/Public Relations: Wade West - Chair
Nancy Chadick, Gregg Greenwood, Joey Timmer, Jamie Wise
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Outbound to Panama
Jul 18, 2023 12:00 PM
The RITE program was started in our District by Ralph and Armida Hight in 1996. It is a joint project of the Rotary Clubs of West Wichita and West Sedgwick County–Sunrise and has grown to involve additional clubs in our District. The inbound portion of the project includes receiving teachers from Panama and Argentina for 4 weeks mid-January to mid-February. The outbound portion includes sending teachers from the Wichita area to Panama for 4 weeks during their summer break. Today, three teachers from Wichita will speak to our club about their experience in Panama this summer. Ms. Katie Brinkman is a Spanish teacher at Wichita Southeast High School. She is a proud KSU graduate earning Bachelor of Family Studies and Human Services in 2008. She stayed at KSU and continued her Master of Spanish Second Language Acquisition and earned her Kansas Teaching Certificate in 2013. She began her teaching career at Blessed Sacrament School in Wichita in August 2013 until 2016. She then moved into a job with Kansas Children’s Service League as a Kinship Navigator & Circle of Parents Coordinator for the following two years. She joined the Southeast HS Staff at the start of the 2018-2019 school year where she is currently. Katie is a traveler and a lifelong learner and has traveled to Ecuador, Puerto Rico, London, England, Switzerland, and Belgium. She studied abroad in Mexico for six weeks and returned on several occasions for cultural studies and vacation. Katie participated in the 2023 Outbound RITE program for new opportunities of living in the Panamanian culture in an authentic way to share her experiences with her future students. She believes her students will benefit through her first-hand knowledge of time spent as a RITE teacher. Mrs. April Gomez is a French teacher at Wichita Southeast High School. She has also studied and knows Spanish and is a French-English Translator. April began her educational career as a Special Education Paraprofessional from 1997-2002 at Horace Mann School. During this time, she returned to college and transitioned into a substitute teacher at Wichita East High School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in French and French Literature from the University of Washington in 2005. She earned her Teaching License in 2013. These experiences led her into a French Teaching Position at Wichita East High from 2012 to 2016 and then into her current position at Southeast HS. April participated in the 2023 Outbound RITE to fulfill a lifelong dream and goal: to help educate those in other countries and learn about the people, the teachers of English in Panama and their cultures. She was also motivated to go to Panama to share her experiences with many immigrant students at her school. These methodologies will allow students to open their worldview to possibly have something to help others. April loves to travel and meet new people. She has studied and visited France with particular attention to Paris and has traveled to Ireland, England, Spain, Mexico and Canada. Mr. David Mace is a Special Education teacher at Wichita Southeast High School. Dave has taken a long road to becoming a teacher. He earned a Bachelor of Finance in 1992 at Baker University and a Master of AgriBusiness from KSU in 2005. To move in a teaching career, Dave earned a Master of Special Education in 2021 from WSU. He also studied and advanced his Spanish language skills throughout his college and work experiences and has knowledge of the Norwegian language. After a varied career of 25 years in Business, AgriBusiness, Marketing, Communications, Accounting and Finance, Dave moved into his career shifted into an interest in education by starting a Master of Special Education at WSU. He took a job as a paraprofessional in the Andover Public Schools during the 2017- 2018 school year. His teaching career moved him to the Wichita Public Schools at West High and currently at Southeast HS at the start of the 2018-2019 school year. Dave participated in the 2023 Outbound RITE Program to bring effective teaching techniques and strategies to a wider professional audience. He has an affinity for other cultures and newcomers. He believes his strengths are communication and building relationships with others. This program allowed Dave his first opportunity to travel to a foreign country to bolster his passion for furthering cultural understanding with teachers and Rotarians by being a RITE Teacher. |
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3 D Printing - How it works and is impacting everyday life
Jul 25, 2023 12:00 PM
Ben Ropp is a Technology Trainer Librarian at Wichita Public Library, where he has worked for 15 years. He moved to Wichita in 2008 for that job, from Albany, NY, where he got his Master's degree in Information Science at the University at Albany (part of the State University of New York system, or SUNY). He grew up in Memphis, TN, and Worcester, NY, then went to the University of Chicago where he studied music and landed in Wichita in 2008 after settling into library science for a career in his 30s. One of eight full-time technology trainers at the Advanced Learning Library, Ben teaches a variety of technology classes at the library, including Excel, 3D Printing, and Tinkercad, which is a user-friendly, web-based 3D modeling program. Over the last ten years, he helped develop the Wichita Public Library's popular "Book a Librarian" program, which offers free one-on-one tech assistance by appointment with a technology trainer. |
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Guadalupe Clinic
Aug 08, 2023 12:00 PM
I was born in Topeka moving to Wichita at age 2. I attended grade school at All Saints, High School at Kapaun Mt. Carmel HS and college at Newman University (BS in Business and a BA in History). I am married for 41 years to Veronica and we have four grown sons. My first full-time job was at Johnston’s Clothiers, just after graduation. I worked there for a total of 35 years, eventually purchased it from my father, Jerry in 1995. I left the business in 2014 to become VP for Advancement at Newman University. During that time, I led our team to raise 29.5 million dollars to build Bishop Gerber Science Center. Later, we raised funds to renovate St. John’s Chapel. In January of 2020, right before Covid, I became Executive Director of Guadalupe Clinic. |
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Aug 08, 2023 12:00 PM
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Aug 15, 2023 12:00 PM
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Water Conservation - Kansas
Aug 15, 2023 12:00 PM
Katherine Wright is a PERC research fellow. She is an expert on water policy and her current work includes exploration of solutions to western water scarcity. Through this work, she aims to facilitate long-term policy solutions that meet the needs of diverse stakeholder groups. Additional work focuses on analyzing the impact of water transfers on development and agricultural stakeholders. Dr. Wright is also committed to improving the transparency of and data availability related to public water programs. Although her past research focused on water, her work is applicable to fisheries, land use, and other natural resources. She was an Oskar Morgenstern fellow for the Mercatus Center for three years and received Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability Outstanding Graduate Comprehensive Exam award. She graduated with a Ph.D. in sustainability from Arizona State University. |