Upcoming Speakers

June 7th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Director, Mayor’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs

Japer Bowles, a local queer advocate and public affairs professional, has experience in constituent services and expertise in local and state legislative processes.  He recently led a coalition of more than thirty local LGBTQ+ businesses and nonprofit organizations and over 60 elected officials to develop priorities and strategize investments and programs supportive to the LGBTQ+ community, including housing, workforce development, and a resource community center.

Director Bowles previously served as a legislative manager at Stateside, where he led a team that analyzed, monitored, and reported the political actions of state legislatures and executive leaders and reported on over 15,000 legislative and regulatory matters for corporations, trade associations, and the military. Director Bowles also previously served two terms as an ANC commissioner in service of residents in Adams Morgan.


June 14th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
German Ambassador/DC

Axel Dittmann is the Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy in Washington.  Prior to his appointment in 2022, he served as Director for EU Institutional Affairs Foreign Office in Berlin (2018-2022), as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Serbia (2015-2018), as European Directorate Foreign Office, Berlin (2007-2015), and UNOSEK, United Nations in Vienna (2006-2007). 

From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Dittmann was assigned to the German Embassy in Washington (State Department exchange, Political officer), and from 2001 to 2004, was part of the negotiating team EU Constitutional Treaty, Foreign Office, Berlin. 

Prior to that, he was at the foreign office of the Germany Embassy Belgrade, UNMIK (Kosovo), EU negotiating team Skopje.

He began his career at the Foreign Office (Attache? training; UN Permanent Mission in NY)

Mr. Dittmann was born in Bonn, Germany, studied economics and is married with three children.
 

June 21st 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Curator at the National Museum of American History

Katherine Ott has been a curator at the National Museum of American History for 20+years, spending time thinking, talking, and writing about how and why people in the past were tagged for being different—because of disease, gender, disability, sexuality, race, or just being annoying.  She has led exhibitions on HIV and AIDS, the Stonewall Anniversary, Polio, and disability history, among other topics.  She teaches a graduate course at The George Washington University and has authored or coedited three books.

Katherine responds to all pronouns and is energetically honing her queer superpower.

 

June 28th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
President's Final Club Assembly


Please join club President, Marilyn Nevy Cruz for her final club assembly as your president.
 

Upcoming Events

June 6th 2023 at 6:00 pm
Rotarians for Equality for Black People Committee Meeting
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June 7th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: Japer Bowles
Topic: Director, Mayor’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs
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June 10th 2023 at 10:00 am
Garden Workday with City Blossoms & DC Rotaract Club
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June 10th 2023 at 3:00 pm
Washington DC Pride Parade
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June 12th 2023 at 5:30 pm
Monthly Membership Committee Meeting
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June 13th 2023 at 4:00 pm
CHEC Interact New Member Induciton
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June 13th 2023 at 6:00 pm
Monthly DC Peace Initiative Committee Meeting
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June 13th 2023 at 7:00 pm
Monthly Embassy & International Relations Committee Meeting
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June 14th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: German Ambassador/DCM
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June 15th 2023 at 5:00 pm
Virtual Club Board of Directors Meeting
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June 15th 2023 at 6:00 pm
Walter Reed Bingo
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June 16th 2023 at 6:45 pm
DC Rotary Club Grate Patrol
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June 17th 2023 at 11:00 am
Save the Date - Changing of the Guard
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June 20th 2023 at 6:00 pm
Rotarians for Equality for Black People Committee Meeting
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June 20th 2023 at 6:45 pm
DC Rotary Club Grate Patrol
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June 21st 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Ott
Topic: Curator, Division of Science & Medicine, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
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June 21st 2023 at 4:00 pm
Rotary Red Line Happy Hour
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June 25th 2023 at 11:30 am
DC Rotaract New Member Induction
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June 26th 2023 at 5:00 pm
Monthly Program Committee Meeting
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June 28th 2023 at 12:30 pm
In Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Speaker: Club Assembly
Topic: President's Final Club Assembly
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