Speakers

A lifetime Lincoln resident, attended Lincoln Southeast High, graduated UNL 1973. Served six years in the Nebraska Air National Guard. Lincoln Police Officer for 36 years where I worked primarily in Technical Investigations, the White Collar Crime Unit.  I retired in 2009 as a Captain, the day shift Duty Commander.

I taught school for one year at Dawes Middle School.  I have been a financial advisor for 31 years and retire on August 31st after 31 years working with Waddell & Reed.  

I joined the Crime Stoppers Board six years ago and have been the President of the board for two years.  I am the President elect of the Lincoln East Rotary Club.

My wife, Marcia, and I have been married 45 years, have two children and three grandchildren - we all enjoy sports and love to travel together. 

Julie O'Hara has been a member of the Shenandoah Rotary Club since 2005. She served as club President in 2014/15 and was awarded outstanding club president. Julie has also served as Sergeant-At-Arms, Club Treasurer, Chair of the Fundraising Committee and served as a Director and a Board member. Julie is also trained as a facilitator for our Visioning Sessions and Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI); is CoChair of the District Awards Committee and served as Assistant Governor.

When Julie isn’t busy with Rotary, she is the wife to Patrick and mom to three kids: Rebecca (24), Hailey (16) and Conor (10). She is also employed as a full time
real estate agent for Jim Hughes Real Estate and has held her license for 14 years. Together, she and her family enjoy spending time together trying different
restaurants and exploring the many small towns in Southwest Iowa. In her free time, she enjoys reading, volunteering at the elementary school, biking and
working out. Julie is very community active and involved in many other boards and committees. These include: Shenandoah Public Library Board of Trustees;
Shenandoah Athletic Booster Club and is a founding member of The Shenandoah Iowa Education Foundation. She served as a board member for the Habitat for Humanity until 2017.

Matthew Mullen recently concluded his tenure as Lecturer at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), Mahdiol University, Thailand. During his PhD research, Mullen focused on oppression and resistance in North Korea, Thailand, and Myanmar.  In 2016, he published Pathways that Changed Myanmar, released through Zed Books. Mullen recently returned to his hometown Lincoln where he consults on human rights, peace, development, and security. He is currently focusing on a project in the Ethiopian Dairy Sector for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2016-Present). 

MAMA - Midwestern African Museum of Art​

Dr. Danvas Mabeya graduated with a doctorate degree in Sociology from Kansas State University in 2011. Mabeya has a BA in International Relations and a double Masters degree in Political Science and International Relations. Mabeya has been associated and teaching undergraduate courses in Sociology at Southeast Community College (SCC) since 2013 and enjoys teaching diversity and culture. He has worked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as a research intern from 1998 to 2000 at Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO - Kenya) in 1997 assisting in coordinating Somalia-PEER-programs for educational and emergencies in the Horn of Africa. Until a recent appointment as an executive director of MAMA,Mabeya has been a volunteer vice Chair and Board since 2017. Midwestern African Museum of ArtMidwestern African Museum of Art

Roméo Guerra spent much of his career in grant research and development for the state and University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Guerra was named executive director of El Centro de las Americas which works with Lincoln's Latino community effective April 11 2016.

Prior to his time at UNMC, Guerra worked for more than a decade at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. 

Guerra also did work with alcoholism and substance abuse for the state and planned academic conferences for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

He has served on a variety of boards and committees for organizations, including the Belmont Community Center, the Citizens Policy Advisory Board, the Task Force on Integration Immigrant Workforce Population, the National Rural Health Association and the Lincoln Medical Education Partnership.

Dr. Denise Bulling is a Senior Research Director in the Public Policy Center with the University of Nebraska. She is a Certified Threat Manager and Licensed Independent Professional Counselor. Her research portfolio includes projects exploring insider threats, source assessment in intelligence operations, workplace violence, suicide prevention, disaster behavioral health, homeland security planning and threat management in various settings.