Passion, Action, and Traction: How to identify and develop a sustainable solution.
Mar 29, 2021
Dr. Kathleen Davis of District 5030 Grants Comm.
Passion, Action, and Traction: How to identify and develop a sustainable solution.
Dr. Kathleen Davis will speak to the Rotary Club of Kirkland on "Passion, Action, and Traction: How to identify a need you want to impact and develop a sustainable solution through Rotary." Dr. Davis' program will provide club members a window into the steps to mount a successful Rotary grant effort.
Dr. Davis is member of the Rotary Club of Ballard and chair of the District 5030 Grants Committee. Over the past 10 years, her husband and she have been working in Guatemala supporting clean water and sanitation, ventilated indoor cooking stoves, and primary school education for rural indigenous populations with Global Global and District Rotary Grants. She has also worked with women with devastating birth injuries in Africa for over 15 years, now with the Worldwide Fistula Fund.
Kathleen is a retired internal medicine physician with over 30 years experience in clinical medicine, public health, health education, and evaluation of education and clinical programs. In addition to teaching in U.S. hospitals, Kathleen and her husband, Chris, have taught medicine as guest faculty at hospitals in Uganda, Cambodia, Bhutan, and Laos.
Kathleen and Chris have two adult children, a son who served as a captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces, and now is a student at WASU Medical School, and a daughter in Vermont who is a gemologist, selling beautiful jewelry while trying to keep two grandchildren in line!