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2020

Jan. 7: John George, "Northern California Computer Crimes Taskforce"

March 3: JD Bergeron, Executive Director, International Bird Rescue

Jan. 21: Corky Quirk, Founder, NorCal Bats

Feb. 4: Kristen Madsen, Director, Creative Sonoma

Feb. 18: Diane Dragone and Elly Lichenstein of the Cinnabar Theater.

Aug. 4 Melissa Kelley, executive director of the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation

August 18: Gale Kissin, Private Investigator

Evan Wiig, Director of Membership & Communications, CAFF

Dr. Fatouma Almirah, Buck Institute

Anne Vercelli, Asst. Director, SF Chronicle Wine Competition

Scott Medbury, Executive Director, Quarryhill Botanical Garden

Julianne McCall, Governor's COVID-19 Testing Task Force and Co-Director of Precision Medicine in the Governor's Office of Planning and Research

Karen Johnson, Retired Executive Director of the Schulz Museum and former Executive Director of the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County

Buffy Welch, Secret Santa Coordinator for Sonoma County

2019

NOTE: To see the Powerpoint presentation from the August 1 program on the SMART Train, click here!

Jan 3 Dot Spaet "Health Guidelines"

Dennis Mangan, PhD: Your Other Self: The Microbial Communities That Make You What You Are

Gaye LeBaron "The Wonder Seekers of Fountaingrove"​

Feb. 21 Jill Ravitch “The Family Justice Center Sonoma County”

March 7: Aisha Jill Morgan, "Being Muslim in Sonoma County"

March 21: Carol Rathmann, Director, Forget Me Not Farm

April 4: Karen Lynch, "Good Cop, Bad Daughter: memoirs of an unlikely police officer

April 18: Andrew Bailey: Anova-educational, behavioral, and therapy services for children and teens with autism

May 2: Maya Khosla, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2018–20).

May 16: Alexa Rae Wall, Sonoma County Growers Association

June 6: Jenni Klose, President, Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Education

July 18: Ariel Vipond, Community Benefit Coordinator for the Education Program at United Way.

August 1: Farhad Mansourian: Update on SMART

August 15: Argo Thompson, Artistic Director, Left Edge Theatre

Sept. 5: David Ford, President of the Pacific Coast Air Museum

Oct. 3: Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony

Oct. 17: Laurie Lynn Hogan, Burbank Housing

Nov. 7: Jennifer and Elizabeth Webley: The Hattery

Dec. 5: Sondra Bernstein, the girl and the fig