ROTARY LUNCHEON: Katia Gomez educate2envision

Katia Gomez, a Rotary Scholar in 2009-2011, is the Executive Director of Educate2Envision (E2E) a California-based non-profit organization she founded in 2010. E2E is the only organization in Honduras making secondary school affordable and accessible in rural areas. E2E is supporting over 100 first-generation high school students in six communities through leadership and entrepreneurship programs that train them to design poverty-fighting community projects and manage small businesses to generate income to cover their school fees,

Katia will share her experiences starting a non-profit organization at the age of 23, and how she was able to turn bake sale money into a globally recognized organization.In addition to telling us aobut lessons she learned working in international development, she'll describe how her nonprofit organization has developed a unique way to make education accessible for under-served youth in Honduras. 

From 2009-2011, Katia served as a District Chair for CARE USA, speaking to politicians in Washington DC and locally about the importance of empowering women and girls to conquer global poverty. She is a 2015 Global Fellow for Ashoka, the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide that invests in innovative changemakers. She has been named the Top Young Change-maker in the US by DoSomething.org and one of the Top 12 “Amazing Young Entrepreneurs Doing Good” by Forbes. In 2013, she was named by Newsweek as one of the "Top 25 Women Under 25 in the World to Watch" and has recently been featured as an ABC7 "Star" on KGO-TV. She has been a featured speaker at youth conferences worldwide including: Millennium Campus Conference, Women Deliver International Conference, and Hugh O Brian World Summit. This year Katia had her story published in Europe by Penguin Publishing in the collection of memoirs entitled "PANGEA - 7 young people who are transforming the world". Katia earned her Master of Public Health from Boston University and her B.A. in International Studies from the University of California, San Diego. 

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This is a weekly membership meeting for The Rotary Club of San Francisco, open to all Rotarians, visiting Rotarians, prospective members and guests.

Each luncheon meeting includes three-course lunch from Scala's Bistro. Individual lunch tickets are $40, or purchase a book of four tickets for the discounted price of $145. Cash, check and credit card payment options available. Tickets available for purchase at the door.