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When Registering for this lunch meeting: It is currently not neccessary to select a payment option during registration. You can opt to pay by check, pay on the day with by credit card or you will be billed with your membership.  

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The Salt Lake Chambers, Utah Community Builders Initiative is a response to the growing desire from the business community to create a social impact for good beyond traditional business issues. We aim to engage businesses, using our guiding principles.

• Identify Utah’s pressing challenges: Through high-quality data and research, we focus on the area of greatest need, impact and results.
• Collaborate with the business community, issue experts and stakeholders: We bring together the business community, nonprofits, service providers and thought leaders to identify areas and plan for improvement.
• Promote social responsibility with the business community: We provide actionable steps for businesses to take to address pressing challenges.
• Encourage the next generation of problem solvers: Through process and engagement, we instill the importance of social responsibility in the leaders of tomorrow.

Presenter 

Bre is a natural community builder who believes the greatest impact comes from serving others and building where you stand. Throughout Utah, she has pioneered programs that bring people together and strengthen community bonds. Whether through grassroots initiatives, volunteer work, or simply showing up where needed, Bre is dedicated to creating spaces where everyone feels welcome and empowered.

She is excited to collaborate and build a stronger, more connected Utah.

Last year, Derek Miller, CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber reached out during a critical time, and Bre stepped in to help,  Bre has played a key role in creating the Workplace Flexibility Toolkit and laid the foundation for the Salt Lake Chamber's child care initiative, which has been instrumental in advancing the organization’s mission.

Bre Yamauchi grew up on a farm in southeastern Idaho, where summers meant wrangling livestock at nearly 90 rodeos a year—so if you ever need a rodeo partner, she’s your gal! A lifelong sports enthusiast, Bre has been an athlete, referee, and avid fan, especially of basketball and volleyball. March Madness is her favorite time of year.

Outside of work, Bre enjoys gardening, camping, and photography. She’s also a passionate traveler who believes beauty and growth come from learning beyond our own borders. Her last name is indeed Japanese (she’s a quarter Japanese), and she speaks the language fluently—a skill she's put to use on major translation projects, including one for a national television station.

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Join us to hear from fellow club members who attended the Calgary Conference.

Learn about

• Rotary International Strategic Objectives
• Club members who presented at the conference
• The ESRAG pre conference on Environmental Issues
• Global project priorities.

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Author, Julie Krejci - Culture Shock

Julie Krejci (Ruster) grew up around US and Europe with US Airforce family.  She graduated from Syracuse University and after trials in diverse industries, became  and elementary teacher in East Los Angeles. Julie moved to Vienna, Austria in early 90's to teach at American School in International schools.  She engaged with and welcomed many new Americans and other nationalities to Vienna for the schools and otherwise.   

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Dr. Greg Peterson is the ninth president of Salt Lake Community College. As a first-generation community college student himself, Dr. Peterson is committed to the mission of two-year colleges and works to ensure everyone has access to the life changing power of higher education. Throughout his career, he has launched many initiatives that support student success, including innovative financial aid, college transfer, and workforce pipeline programs. Before taking the helm at SLCC in July 2024, Dr. Peterson served as president of Arizona’s Chandler-Gilbert Community College. He holds a doctorate in educational administration with an emphasis in community college leadership from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in postsecondary, adult, and continuing education from Portland State University, and a bachelor's degree in English from Brigham Young University.”

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President and Chief Executive Officer

Zions First National Bank

PLEASE NOTE LATE START TO ACCOMMODATE PAUL'S SCHEDULE.

Paul E. Burdiss is president and chief executive officer of Zions First National Bank. He served as chief financial officer of Zions Bancorporation for nine years beginning in March 2015.

Prior to joining Zions, he was corporate treasurer at SunTrust Banks, Inc., where he was responsible for overseeing the investment portfolio, capital management, liquidity, and interest rate risk management, as well as supporting the stress testing and CCAR process. 

Before SunTrust, Burdiss was executive vice president and treasurer of Comerica Inc., after having been the director of investor relations. Earlier in his career, he worked in Chicago, Illinois as a relationship manager at The Bank of Nova Scotia.

Burdiss holds a bachelor's degree in financial administration from Michigan State University, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan.

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We are pleased to welcome Shahab Saeed as our 2025 Thanksgiving Message Speaker.

And yet we find ourselves at the time of increasing turbulence in our society.  Americans everywhere are wondering how to build a nation that is truly just, free and peaceful. 

What is needed is a resurgence in organizations like Rotary International where souls come together to put “Service above self”. To get to know their neighbors and community, to learn with an open mind about how to develop capacity in all members of  society and above all live their lives every day according to the “Four Way Test”.  

“… peace must first be established among individuals until it leads in the end to peace among nations” according to the writings of the Baha’i Faith.  

This Thanksgiving presentation will explore how our American Nation that has been endowed with so many capabilities, so much talent and abundant resources can work toward uniting togther to achieve the goal of peace on earth as promised by all the major religions of the world and desired by souls from all walks of life. 

“To whom much is given, much is expected”

Shahab works on engaging hearts and minds to build better, more vibrant and prosperous communities.”
He served as a board member and president of the Salt Lake Rotary Club where he was privileged to be a part of the “Improving 10,000 Lives Every Year” campaign and its accompanying annual impact statements. 

Shahab’s civic services have included among others, decades long service on boards of Intermountain Healthcare’s Central Region, Ballet West, and Natural Gas Training Institute culminating in serving as the Chairman of Board in all three organizations.  He also served for multiple years on the Intermountain Healthcare’s Corporate Board.
He was an adjunct faculty member in the Management Department of the Gore School of Business for over two decades, mainly teaching Leadership courses in the MBA program and being accountable for the Master Track graduate mentoring program for MBA graduates. 

He served as an officer for Questar Corporation where he spent most of his career until the sale of the company to an East coast utility. 
He is a fourth generation member of the Baha’i Faith, a worldwide religious community that believes in and works toward the unity of humankind. 

UMOCA @ 94: A Legacy in Motion.

Please join us as we welcome Laura Allred Hurtado, Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art as we hear about the legacy and future of the museum, currently located on the Salt Palace Complex, slated for upcoming renovation.

Laura Allred Hurtado is the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). As a director, curator, and writer, her practice explores issues of gender, belief, identity, and the local. She is the author of numerous texts including the most recent Actual Source publication, A 15 Year Expanse (2020); UMOCA Press, Baggage: Alex Caldiero: In Retrospect (2021) and In Memory (2025); and the forthcoming Oxford University Press, Object/Belief (2025). She has curated exhibitions in New York City and throughout Utah, most recently a retrospective of the Guerrilla Girls (2020) as well as a collaborative exhibition with For Freedoms artist collective (2022).

Laura has a bachelor's degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies and a master's in Art History and Visual Studies. Prior to being hired as Executive Director at UMOCA, she was an instructor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah, Curator of Education at Salt Lake Art Center, and Global Acquisitions Curator at the Church History Museum.