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A native of LA, Gloria is the proud mother of a 30 year old daughter, Marisa. After a successful 40 years in healthcare, Gloria is now happily retired. Art and travel have always been part of her many interests and has most recently added on ballroom dancing lessons.

The Rotary Club of Mental Health & Wellness is excited to announce a new and impactful vocational project, and we would be honored to have you join us in bringing it to life. We are assembling essential vocational kits for 45 dedicated students enrolled in the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) program. These kits will include vital tools such as stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, stopwatches, scrubs, and other supplies that will support them in their studies and training.

This project is more than just providing equipment; it’s about offering hope and opportunity. The students we’re supporting come from underserved communities, and for many of them, this is their last chance— to create a better life and serve others through a career in healthcare. By coming together to assemble these kits, we are helping to empower them to succeed in their journey.

We would love for you to be a part of this initiative. Your participation would not only be greatly appreciated by the students but would also demonstrate the power of community and support. Together, we can make a meaningful impact on the lives of these future healthcare professionals.

For those of you that can't attend in person. Please feel free to email us some heartfelt motivational messages for the students so that we can include them in the kits on your behalf. 

Please join us for this special assembly event:

Date: 09/21/24 

Time: 1:00PM-3:00PM

Location: Shaar Residence

Thank you for being a part of our Rotary family and for all that you do to make our world a better place.

You’re Invited! Distribution Day for Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) Kits

After much planning, preparation, and your generous support, we are thrilled to announce the distribution day for the vocational kits that will empower 45 incredible students enrolled in the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) program.

These kits, filled with essential tools like stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, scrubs, and more, symbolize more than just equipment—they represent hope, opportunity, and the belief that every one of these students has the potential to succeed and make a lasting impact in their communities.

We would be honored to have you join us as we hand over these kits to the students. This will be a day of celebration, connection, and inspiration. Your presence at this event will not only bring smiles to the faces of these future healthcare professionals but will also show them the strength and support of our Rotary community. Let’s come together to celebrate this important milestone and to wish these students well as they take the next steps in their journey.

Please note, we will begin the distribution at the East LA campus, followed by a visit to the Hawthorne campus. We hope you can attend one or both of these events, as your presence will make the day even more meaningful for the students. 

Please contact our Service Projects Co-Chair for the event, Joseph Delgado for more informaiton at 626-506-6847

Louise co-founded Luminary Impact Fund to make grants and investments in ventures focused on family mental health and wellness.  Previously, she co-founded Peer Health Exchange, Inc., an organization that helps fill a gap left by underfunded, understaffed health education programs in public high schools nationwide. As chief executive officer, Louise was primarily responsible for leading Peer Health Exchange’s national growth to show up for more young people, building and managing the Peer Health Exchange staff and boards, raising funds and providing fiscal and organizational oversight. At Yale University, her alma mater, she co-founded and directed Community Health Educators, the student volunteer program out of which Peer Health Exchange grew. Louise is an Aspen Entrepreneurial Education Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow. She sits on the Board of Directors of Cow Hollow School and America Achieves. Louise graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History. She lives in SF with her husband and three sons.

Dr. Angela Glymph was selected as the CEO of Peer Health Exchange in 2023.  She joined Peer Health Exchange (PHE)in 2014 and for the past 10 years, Dr. Glymph has led the organization through significant programmatic transformations, which has been guided by her strong belief to align to evidence- and stakeholder-informed practices. She and another executive leader co-developed PHE's current strategic plan, which is a bold and unprecedented vision to reach hundreds of thousands of young people in the places and spaces in which they say they need and want to be reached. . She has demonstrated her strong commitment to centering young people's voices within and outside of PHE in an effort to advance health equity for the most marginalized young people in our country. She previously held the position of President of the Youth Health Equity Collaborative (YHEC) business unit at PHE, where she fundraised for and maintained a budget of $7mil. In her former role, Dr. Glymph set the vision and plan for PHE’s work in addressing the health equity and education needs of over 15,000 young people annually in schools and communities across the country in partnership with the former CEO, board, YHEC Executive leadership, and young people.

Rita Boccuzzi, also known as Mamma Rita Money, is CEO of Flourish Inc, a Safe Money Expert, Coach, Speaker, Executive Vice President of Five Rings Financial, Philanthropist and Humanitarian. She is passionately committed to her mission of educating and empowering five million women and their families in the next five years around money. Her focus is education based self-development around the behavior, knowledge, and skill set associated with money. She educates people with a holistic and transformational approach connecting them with their money’s purpose and how to protect it through mindset mastery to skill set mastery. Her belief is that a financially educated society is an empowered and elevated society. Together, we get to raise our financial intelligence and flourish. She has been featured on KTLA Morning News, the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles Business Journal, Voyage LA, and an Honoree "Women in Business" Most Inspirational Legislative Awards. She is a co-author of “Wine, Women, & Wealth – Inspirational stories of women who got their financial act together” and “50 Empowering Wealth & Financial Mind-$hifts.” You can find her as a guest on podcasts and as a speaker at summits and conferences.

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Guity Javid's experience spans to thirty-eight years in banking, investments, and structured finance.  Javid is the founder and President of Hutton Capital.   She was Senior Managing Director and co-founder of Spring Street Capital.   Prior to that she was a Senior Vice President and manager of the Western U.S. for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Senior Vice President and Manager of Western U.S. Corporate Banking for Wells Fargo Bank/First Interstate Bank, Western Region Manager for CIT Business Credit, Managing Director at Chase Manhattan Bank and Vice President at Citicorp.  She is also a mediator with emphasis in business, bankruptcy, cross cultural, and diversity matters since 2006.  She graduated from University of California at Berkeley in Business Administration.  She is a member of Rancho Park Rotary Club since January 1991.  She served as the President and numerous other positions in her club and district 5280.  She was an investor with an angel organization focused in women owned businesses. Javid co-chaired the first American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" in Beverly Hills. She has also served on various not-for-profit boards. 

Greta is a VC backed entrepreneur with media roots as an award-winning filmmaker. She has spent the last 12+ years working at the intersection of media, technology (focus on AI for 5+ years) and mental health, building B2C and B2B2C products. Currently, she is CEO/founder of Blue Fever, a mental health AI companion and well-being community for Gen Z/Alpha. BF has been named Apple’s App of the Day and supported millions of people. The platform is a front door mental health solution and navigation tool that provides a bridge between the mental health needs of young people and the resources that can best support them. Most recently, Greta has been recruited as a technology expert to advise Congress’ AI Caucus and support proposed trust and safety policy meant to protect youth mental health and data privacy. She has given testimony in the senate and and continues to be active in the movement to bring accountability to big tech. She is also a public speaker who has been on panels and given keynotes for: SXSW, Google, Headstream Innovation Festival, Silicon Beach Festival, Techstars and universities like: USC, UCLA and NYU. She has been featured in Techcrunch, Forbes, CBS, Fox, NBC, Spectrum News, Nylon, the Masters of Scale Podcast, Product Lab Podcast and other mental health/startup podcasts.

Jennifer is the founder of Promly.  She has been a therapist for teens and young adults for 20 years. She specializes in treating high risk adolescents. Jennifer has been an assistant principal and featured on podcasts. She has also served as a board member and provides consultation with numerous schools and agencies, including Center for Humane Tech (“The Social Dilemma”) on best practices for teens and tech, 2020. Jennifer speaks publicly on a variety of mental health concerns; she most recently spoke to members of Congress about the harmful effect of YouTube’s suicide “how-to” videos. Jennifer loves TikTok dances, is a huge fan of Gen Z, and feels like life would be better if every room had a disco ball.

Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health.  Faye has 25+ years of experience in healthcare, financial institutions, and insurance innovation and investment executive at Kaiser Permanente, Schwab, AIG, Blue Shield, and Deloitte Consulting and founded 3 of her own startups.  She has served as an Advisor and Board member to over a dozen companies including Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, UCSF Catalyst, Berger Institute Vice Chair, ANA Innovation Advisory, Samsung Emerging Technology Advisory, Innovation Executive Forum, Summer Search, Autonomous ID, Somnology MD, Ayogo Health, Bridge Asia, and Ascend Leadership AEN & NorCal Chair.  Faye has been recognized as Power 100 and Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal, Insurance Business Hot 100 and Elite Women in Insurance Business America, Tech for Good Women in Tech, Ascend Leadership Award, Computer World’s Top Premier IT Leaders, The Stevie Awards Women helping Women, Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Kaiser Permanente Asian Community and Innovation Enterprise Best Ideation Award.