Speakers

Lia just came back from a year in Mexico on exchange with Rotary with the Roseville Rotary Club as her sponsor. She is grateful to us for providing her with an amazing experience as she was able to learn and grow so much the past year. 

Former president MN Entrepreneurs Club, businessman*, and author (1000 articles & the book INVISIBLE CHILDREN, speaker (including United Nations & Prison Warden’s conference), CASA volunteer Hennepin County guardian ad-Litem, founding board member of CASAMN, CASA CARES), and Kids At Risk Action.  

Mike advocates for abused and neglected children, helping the rest of us see the profound impact the crisis of childhood trauma is having on our schools, public health, public safety and neighborhoods.   Mike will outline poor public perception & misguided policies, failures in our child protection systems, bring attention to solutions that reverse trends of generational child abuse to make our communities safer and happier places.

David is a life-long Lake Minnetonka resident and a retired Minnesota small business owner.  He studied American History with an emphasis on the Cold War Era.

David will focus on the major discrepancies between the 1964 Warren Commission Report, which investigated the Kennedy assassination for ten months and the report from the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassination in 1979, which investigated the assassination for thirty-one months.

Minnesota used to have some of the most affordable electricity in the entire country, but now Minnesota families pay more than the national average for their electricity and prices keep rising. Learn why Minnesota electric bills have reached new all-time highs and why this has negative implications for families, schools, hospitals, and businesses.

Isaac Orr is a Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, where he writes about energy and environmental issues, including mining and electricity policy.  He has written extensively on hydraulic fracturing, frac sand mining and electricity policy, among other energy and environmental issues. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal,USA Today, the New York Post, The Hill, Orange County Register, The Washington Times, and many other publications.

Patrick “Packy” Mader has a background in education, business, and agriculture, with a professional career as an elementary teacher and is the author of six books.  He grew up on a dairy farm near St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, and has been a lifelong fan of sports at all levels leading to the creation of two 400-page nonfiction books, Minnesota Gold and More Minnesota Gold.   The new book includes Minnesota's only 5-time Olympian, world record holders in running and swimming, and how these remarkable athletes "give back" to their sport, school, and community.  He and his wife, Karen, live in Northfield, and are the parents of two children.