Speakers / Les intervenants
Diego Carneiro
Maestro Diego Carneiro is a Rotary Peace Fellow, a Vicente Rocafuerte Peace Prize recipient, and a master cellist who harnesses music for global peace and social transformation. As a graduate of the Rotary Peace Center at Makerere University, he serves as a peace ambassador, performing in over 45 countries as an orchestra conductor.Born in the Brazilian Amazon and recognized as a prodigy at age 12, Diego founded organizations, including Orchestrating Peace, Amazonart, and Friends of Music in Latin America. Through his Rotary Peace Fellowship foundation, he provides music education to vulnerable communities—refugees, youth in conflict zones, and disaster-affected areas across three continents.
Diego will share his inspiring story accompanied by live cello performances, bringing his transformative peace-building message to life. Read more about Diego.
Kareena DhillonKareena Dhillon is director of The Panama Project, a Rotary 4-7-8-17 Global Success Program. Her passion for international affairs grew through nonprofit work, where she learned how global challenges affect local communities. Kareena has studied and worked across four continents and speaks Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Darija. She mentors younger students and provides resources and workshops for young women in her community.
Ramesh FerrisRamesh Ferris is a polio survivor and 2025-26 Rotary District 5370 Governor from Whitehorse, Yukon. He has dedicated 18 years to global polio eradication efforts, partnering with Rotary International, The Gates Foundation, and WHO.
In 2008, Ramesh hand-cycled 7,140km across Canada in his "Cycle to Walk" campaign for polio awareness. He has addressed UN delegates, spoken at Rotary conventions worldwide, and personally delivered vaccines in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.
A recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award and Rotary International's Service Award for a Polio-Free World, Ramesh continues sharing the End Polio message with world leaders globally.
Rushton Hurley
Rushton Hurley has worked all over the globe as a Japanese language teacher, school principal, school improvement consultant, and speaker on innovative learning and communication. He is the director of Innovation at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, also directs the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning, and holds masters degrees in Education and East Asian Studies from Stanford University.
The author of three books, Rushton's talks and writing center on inspiration and creativity, technology and leadership, avenues for engaging learning, the power of digital media and tools for collaboration, and personal and professional perspectives in a technology-infused, ever-changing world. He has also produced mini-courses with the Canadian company Warm Demanders on using generative AI, improved staff and team meetings, and more.
Rushton has been a Rotarian since 2004, as a member of the San Antonio Downtown Club (the world's largest, at the time), the Rotary Club of Santa Clara, the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA (one of the first online clubs in Rotary), and now the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, for which he was its charter president. He holds a special interest in how technology can serve the business of service, and looks forward to sharing with and learning from you.
Rushton Hurley has worked all over the globe as a Japanese language teacher, school principal, school improvement consultant, and speaker on innovative learning and communication. He is the director of Innovation at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, also directs the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning, and holds masters degrees in Education and East Asian Studies from Stanford University.The author of three books, Rushton's talks and writing center on inspiration and creativity, technology and leadership, avenues for engaging learning, the power of digital media and tools for collaboration, and personal and professional perspectives in a technology-infused, ever-changing world. He has also produced mini-courses with the Canadian company Warm Demanders on using generative AI, improved staff and team meetings, and more.
Rushton has been a Rotarian since 2004, as a member of the San Antonio Downtown Club (the world's largest, at the time), the Rotary Club of Santa Clara, the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA (one of the first online clubs in Rotary), and now the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, for which he was its charter president. He holds a special interest in how technology can serve the business of service, and looks forward to sharing with and learning from you.
Hussein MolooDr. Husein Moloo completed a General Surgery Residency at Western University, followed by a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery and a Master's in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. He then completed a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the University of Minnesota and recently graduated with a Master's in Public Health from Harvard.
Angela TenBroeckAngela TenBroeck is a Rotarian and global leader in sustainable agriculture dedicated to eradicating hunger worldwide. She creates systemic solutions bridging economic gaps for smallholder producers, working extensively across Kenya, Malawi, and South Sudan, leading initiatives in climate-smart agriculture, aquaponics, youth training, and regenerative food systems.
Angela's scalable methodology integrates traditional ecological knowledge with modern sustainable practices, adaptable even to temperate northern climates. Her work focuses on community-led solutions that promote food sovereignty and inclusive economic growth for vulnerable populations globally.
Florida's 2021 Woman of the Year in Agriculture and Earthshot Prize nominee, she holds degrees from the University of North Florida and Cornell University's SC Johnson School of Business.
Zachary WeaverZachary Weaver is president of the Rotaract Global Service Club and director of Democracy in a Box, a program linking Rotary’s Four-Way Test with civic participation. Through his Rotary Club’s 4-7-8-17 Global Success Program, he advances partnerships across the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on empowering youth leadership to build a thriving future.
David Gershon
Co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, based on his decades of empowerment and transformative social change experience has architected a bold peace plan called the Peace on Earth by 2030 moonshot with its two transformative change tools: a Peace Game and Peace Zones. This strategy is built upon his experience organizing the 1986 First Earth Run with UNICEF in which 25 million people and 45 heads of state in 62 countries participated in passing a torch of peace around the world. Wherever the torch went, wars stopped and the world was united
as one. This global peace event was witnessed by a billion people through the media. David is author of twelve books, including the award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on empowerment and transformative social change.
as one. This global peace event was witnessed by a billion people through the media. David is author of twelve books, including the award-winning Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on empowerment and transformative social change.Rotary Peace Game Workshop with David Gershon
The Rotary Peace Game is an action-oriented framework that weaves the Four-Way Test into seven peace practices. Each peace practice strengthens Rotarians’ ability to directly express their values, enhance their personal development, strengthen their club, and improve their community. It is the Four-Way Test in action—practical, structured, and service-driven. David Gershon, creator of the Rotary Peace Game, will explain it and how to bring it to our clubs through participation in the Rotary Peace Game Facilitator Training. To date representatives from 163 clubs across the world have participated in the facilitator training. Peter Kyle, former Rotary International Director and Chair of the Rotary Peace Centers describes the training: “This has been an eye opening session for me and I'm sure to all who have been at this training. The whole thing is quite exciting and really ground breaking for Rotary. Over the next year or two this can reverberate around the Rotary world and beyond.”