This Week’s Speaker
Andrea Alexander, Makah Tribal Elder (Nov. 26th)
On Native American and contemporary perspectives as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving
Andrea Alexander, Makah Tribal Member is active in the Northwest Native Asset Building Coalition providing financial literacy training and housing support to reservation based and urban native people. Andrea serves on the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) that delivers grants & low interest loans to rural communities. She is also a founding board member for the newly formed Washington State Native American Chamber of Commerce.
Andrea has experience with diverse community economic development organizations: Executive Director of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Governor’s Office on Indian Affairs, and the Makah Tribal Government. Andrea gained philanthropic experience through First Nations Development Institute, Director of Grants Social Justice Fund Northwest, Philanthropy Northwest Grantmakers of Color and is the founder of the Potlatch Fund.
Andrea attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, worked in the family business, Frankin Institute of Sales, a sales and management training firm that helped to open doors for her early corporate marketing career: Victor Business Products, IBM, Nordstroms, KMJK Radio & KISW Radio. Â Andrea loves sports Seahawks football and spending time with her large extended family that reside from Coastal communities all the way from Neah Bay WA to Newport, OR.
About Bellevue Rotary
Founded in 1961, the Bellevue Rotary Club is an organization of local community and business leaders who make a difference by serving the citizens of our city and the world. Our primary avenues of service are Community Service, International Service, Vocational Service, and Youth Service.
Bellevue Rotary’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Bellevue Rotary Club unequivocally embraces Rotary’s intolerance for racism. We believe in promoting respect, celebrating diversity, demanding ethical leadership, and working tirelessly to advance peace as central tenets of our work. We recognize we have more work to do to create a more just, open and welcoming club for all people. We acknowledge and support Black humanity and its value. We acknowledge the sadness, anger, mental and emotional exhaustion, and trauma that our African American members and other people of color continue to experience. The Bellevue Rotary Club understands its responsibility towards truth, equity, and social justice, and will work with our members to dismantle any and all forms of systemic racism within our Club. To do this, we will carefully look at our Club’s culture, policies, partners, and the work we do in our community as we work to improve ourselves first. The Bellevue Rotary Club will also work towards being an anti-racist club in alignment with our long history and value of serving humanity.
Bellevue Rotary Officers and Directors, July 2023–June 2024
Upcoming Activity
Disco & Donate
Gala & Auction
Thanks to the sponsors & donors of Rain Dog Financial, Brighton Jones, Honcoop Dogerty Wealth Managers, Banner Bank, Lester And Bernice Smith Foundation, Bayley Construction, and Vander Hoek Corporation
Enjoy fellowship, games, music, dinner, and a hosted bar on November 23rd. Event is at W Bellevue, 10455 NE 5th Place, and begins at 5:30 PM PT. Gifts support local and global service projects.
LESTER AND BERNICE SMITH FOUNDATION
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