Anacapa Wraps Up Breakfast Club Talks for 2015-16 School Year
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The beginning of summer means the end of the Breakfast Club at Anacapa School for the 2015-16 year. The Breakfast Club is a signature program here at Anacapa and is an important part of the experiential learning opportunities our school is well-known for.
Contrary to what the program’s name suggests, our Breakfast Clubs do not involve food, at least not food for the stomach. What they do involve is food for the mind, providing our 7th- through 12th-grade students opportunities to meet and ask questions of visiting experts in a variety of fields who present during morning assemblies. As one rising 10th-grade student put it, “Breakfast Clubs are like classes on life. They give us a chance to talk to people directly involved and give us insight that I could never imagine getting in any other way.”
This year’s line-up of Breakfast Club speakers included film-makers, medical professionals, nonprofit representatives, astrophysicists, geophysicists, community activists, authors, journalists, naturalists, political consultants, war veterans and foreign diplomats, among others. Breakfast Clubs take place at the start of every school day, and speakers are also sometimes Anacapa students who address the entire student body and faculty on a topic, such as a school-sponsored internship, for example. In conjunction with our school’s Channel City Club program, Breakfast Club is part of the reason that our students are known for being well-informed and involved citizens. They are comfortable with public speaking, asking questions and engaging in dialog with people of a variety of ages and backgrounds.
Anacapa would like to thank 50 community Breakfast Club speakers and organizations who spoke during the 2015-2016 academic year.
— Hilary Doubleday
Our Speakers:
Greg Alker, Director, Grupo Cleofas, The Vaquita Endangered Porpoise Science Documentary Project
Anne Barkett, Lead Counselor, Noah’s Anchorage Crisis Shelter, What You Should Know: Teen Mental Health
Matt Beausoleil, Architect, The Architectural Experience
Elizabeth Becker, Ph. D., Marine Scientist, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Critically Endangered: Saving the Vaquita
Sharon Byrne and Spencer Dusebout, Event Organizers for Walk for Water (H40), The Vital Need to Raise Awareness for Clean Drinking Water for Those in Need: Upcoming Walk for Water Fundraising Event and School Clubs
Anne Marie Cameron, CEO Mental Wellness Center, and Ann Lippincott, Chair of Education Committee, Mental Health and Wellness Center, Mental Health and Wellness
Anna Campanelli, Team Lead, Lyft, Working in Technology
Besma Coda, Chaldean Christian Immigrant to the United States, My Experience as an Immigrant
Maggie Crocker, Program Director of Santa Barbara Rock Gym, Reaching new Heights: Anacapa’s Climbing Program with Santa Barbara Rock Gym
Fred Davis, Media and Advertising Consultant; CEO, Strategic Perception, Inc., Running for President in the Time of Trump
Anna Flores, Youth Service Specialist, Life, Leadership Skills, and Health
Peter Gallway, Director of One to One Treatment Santa Barbara, Value and Vulnerability in the Real World
Sergeant Riley Harwood, Santa Barbara Police Department Community Relations, Keeping Campuses Safe
Michael Imwalle, Archaeologist, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Olive Oil Making at the Santa Ines Mission Mills
Brittney Jackson, Admission Counselor, University of Puget Sound, The University of Puget Sound Is Awesome!
Razia Jan, Founder, Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation, What Tomorrow Brings
Robin and Robert Jones, Part-time residents of Lesbos, Greece; Responding to Great Need: Refugees Arriving on Lesbos
Megan Kuehl, Former Anacapa Teacher; Earth Science Content Specialist, Wedding Fun! And The Science of Creativity
William R. Livingstone, World War II Veteran and POW, A Personal Account of Serving in the Military and Being a World War II POW in Germany
Amy Lutz, Program Officer, Young America’s Foundation – Reagan Ranch Center, An Upcoming Program for Young People: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism
Linda Mathews, Santa Barbara and Toba Sister Cities Representative, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S. – Toba, Japan Exchange Opportunity
Aija Mayrock, writer and Anacapa alumna, Writing and Publishing The Survival Guide to Bullying
Lieutenant Keegan McCoy, Chief of Training, 1st Air and Space Test Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Engineering and Designing Spacecraft
Scarlett McDonald, Volunteer, The Arts Fund, The Teen Arts Mentorship Program
Jeff Meyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, SBCC, The Geology of the Big Sur Coastline: You’re Going to Love It! and Earthquake Preparedness
Ted Mills, Writer and Podcaster; Podcasting for Everyone
Bernard Mines, Executive Committee Member and Hike Leader, Sierra Club, Getting You Ready for Anacapa’s Beginning-of-the-Year Trip: Hiking Big Sur
Dale Moody, Ph.D., Elephant Seal Naturalist with elephantseal.org, The World of the Great Elephant Seal
Juna Muller, Program Director, Teen Apprenticeship Program, Fairview Gardens, Hands-on Learning in Our Teen Apprenticeship Program
Andrii Nesterenko, Anacapa Parent; Country General Manager, FM Logistic, Today’s Ukraine
Steve Nipper, Anacapa Class of 1985; President, Sol Wave, Survey of Anacapa Students’ Television Viewing Habits
Rebecca Plotkin, Program Advisor, Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, Financial Aid Opportunities in Our Community
Roberta Romano, Representative of the International Organization for Migration
Marcello Ricci, Program Director, The Arts Fund, Art in Our Community: Teen Arts Mentorship Pitch
Scott Slater, CEO Cadiz Inc., Water in California and the Cadiz Water Project
Rose Thomas, Architectural Historian, A Tour of Santa Barbara Architecture
Nikolaus Volgenau and Lorna Boyd, Operations Scientist and Philathropic Director, Burgeoning Science: An Introduction Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc.
Kate Voss and Kelsey Bisson, Kate Voss: University of California Santa Barbara Ph.D. Candidate in Hydrology; Kelsey Bisson, University of California Santa Barbara Ph.D. Candidate in Oceanography, Summit to Sea: Understanding and Following Water
Bob Wilcher, Killer B Fitness; Making the Most of Your Fitness Class in 2016
Brent Sumner, filmmaker, West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Islands
Joseph Harrison, Direct Relief International Programs Manager, Direct Relief and Syrian Refugees
Gilbert L. Ashor, M.D., Cardiovascular Surgery: Surgical Training
Tom Sichi, Ventura County Medical Center Emergency Physician, How to Stay Out of the Emergency Room
Beth Ciuffini, R.D.N., Nutrition Therapy, Education, Nutrition Consultant, Make it Count
Peter Schenck, My Prep School Experiences in New England
Dan Upton, Building Contractor, A Tour of Jeff Shelton’s “El Jardin” at 819 Garden Street