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For more than 100 years, The Rotary Club of Albuquerque has played a leading role in helping to solve problems and improve the community. Our members are dedicated professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, industries, and community organizations who share a passion for community service and friendship. We embrace the motto "Service Over Self."

Our weekly lunch meetings provide for an exchange of ideas and experiences that inform our community service ethic while building friendships.

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It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the Rotary Club of Albuquerque and my honor to serve as your 2025-2026 President. I’m excited to bring this year’s theme, Unite for Good, to life. I’m a person who tries to look for the good in every situation and to find ways to practice gratitude every day; I lead an organization dedicated to improving educational and economic outcomes for children and families. Coming together to increase the amount of goodness in the world resonates deeply with me.

My mom was three years old when she contracted polio after attending the Arkalalah Fall Festival and Parade in Arkansas City, Kansas. At least that’s where my grandmother came to believe her little girl got sick, after picking up a piece of candy from the ground and putting it in her mouth. It’s just one of the many crystal-clear stories my mom carries in her mind from that time in her life—1949, a handful of years before the Salk vaccine became available. Hearing these stories and growing up with a mother who deals every day with the effects of post-polio syndrome has given me a deep appreciation for the Rotary clubs’ PolioPlus work, which has helped vaccinate over 2.5 billion children worldwide. It’s just one way Rotary increases the amount of goodness in the world.

Another is through our service and our charity. In fact, I first became involved in the Rotary Club of Albuquerque when Explora was chosen as the beneficiary of the club’s centennial fundraising project. We united to build a new exhibition at Explora, which has since provided family learning opportunities for hundreds of thousands of families who have constructed tall towers or raced balls down ramps in the Rotary Pavilion. From volunteering at the Duck Pluck when I first moved to Albuquerque to working the most recent Seed Festival at the ABQ BioPark, I know I am among other people who also care about adding goodness to the world.

This year we have some serious business to accomplish, like drafting a new strategic plan, digitizing old photos and files, and modernizing some systems, but we also will Unite for Good as we bring our various committees to life, write grants for service projects, hold fundraisers for local nonprofits, and give fellow members encouragement during hard times. I look forward to working with you this year; thank you for your commitment to Rotary.