Events

Author Manny Pacheco has enjoyed a growing acclaim through his Forgotten Hollywood Book Series, now included in the library collections of the Hollywood Heritage Museum, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, among others. He's currently in production to turn his literary work into a Forgotten Hollywood Documentary. A Southern California television and radio personality for over three decades, Manny was on NBC's Santa Barbara, co-hosted the Daytime Emmy-nominated In Studio on KCOP, and he currently hosts Forgotten Hollywood, a weekly syndicated radio program on the 90.1 FM KBPK, and a web-based television show on the TherapyCable Channel. He is also a weekend traffic anchor on KNX 10-70 News Radio.

Amanda Hunter will discuss the GWPOP (Good World Power of Peace) Movement and Dr Vicki Radel will discuss the Rotary International Foundation.

Amanda Hunter is the Founder and Executive Director of GWPOP, a grass root peace movement created to mobilize millennials and help them become a powerful element of peaceful change. GWPOP organizes events to bring young people together face to face in open spaces to engage in and experience inTent Talks, music, art and food. For more information visit www.gwpop.org .

Amanda was home schooled in London in a curriculum based on the London School of Business and Homeopathic Medicine. She served as President of the Riverside Telephone Company and is currently President of the California Map Art Company and the Sweet Inspiration Chocolate Company.

Dominil Knoll is CEO of the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce. He holds an MBA with specialization in Strategic Management and Leadership. He has worked in several capacities for large and medium-sized corporations, and has been featured in national and international publications. A native of Italy, he is fluent in English, German, and Italian.

The Rotary Club of Redondo Beach Community Foundation Board will present several proposed revisions to the organization's bylaws for the members' consideration and discussion. The vote to approve the changes will take place at the Annual Rotary Club Assembly on December 12, 2018.

The club will discuss and vote on changes to the RCRB Community Foundation Bylaws that were presented at the club meeting on November 14, 2018. 

Dr. Steven Keller has spent 31 years in public education, beginning as a middle and high school history and language arts teacher, a middle school assistant principal and principal, a Director of Student Achievement, and an Assistant Superintendent, before becoming the Superintendent of Schools in the Redondo Beach Unified School District, the finest school district in the South Bay. 

Dr. Keller has been the leader of RBUSD for over 11 years.  In addition to his role as the leader of the district, he has served as an adjunct professor at Chapman University and UC Irvine.  He is also the proud father of Sloan and Jaxon.  Jaxon is a middle school teacher in Orange County.  His wife has the best name in the world, Kelli Keller.  Dr. Keller is an avid Anaheim Ducks hockey fan who believes that penalty minutes should be as equally important as goals and assists. Dr. Keller earned his undergraduate degree from Pitzer College in Claremont and his masters degree from Claremont Graduate University. His doctoral degree is from the University of California, Irvine where he still holds the record for the briefest dissertation.

Judge Andrew Kauffman was born and raised in the Los Angeles area and has been a Redondo Beach resident since 1985. He received his undergraduate degree from USC and his law degree from UCLA. He has been married for 36 years and has two grown children.

Judge Kauffman has held the following positions:

Deputy District Attorney from 1975-1985

Commissioner of the South Bay Municipal Court from 1985-1989

Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court from 1989-1995

Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1995-2011

Arbitrator and Mediator with Alternative Resolution Centers from 2011-present

Dr. Nicole Bosson is the Assistant Medical Director at the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and adjunct faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she is the EMS Fellowship Director.  

Nicole began her medical career working in prehospital care, first as an EMT in Boston, Massachusetts and subsequently as a Fulbright scholar at the Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente (SAMU) in Paris. She came to Los Angeles after training in emergency medicine at NYU/Bellevue in NYC to complete a 2-year fellowship in EMS and Disaster Medicine at Harbor-UCLA and the Los Angeles County EMS Agency.  

Nicole is among the first to be board certified in EMS Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She is actively involved in EMS research, education, and policy development. She regularly instructs at the J. Michael Criley Paramedic Training Institute. Since 2016, she has served on the California State Scope of Practice Committee for the Emergency Medical Directors of California and has worked on several state and national task forces related to EMS and quality initiatives. Dr. Bosson is a certified Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Medical Team Manager and member of California Task Force 2. She deployed with the team to the Nepal and Mexico City earthquakes.

In her spare time Nicole enjoys food tourism and running marathons to make up for it.