Carson City Democratic Women’s Club
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Carson City Dem Women present
Jill Derby "We Will Not Go Back!"
Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 5:00 PM, speaker at 5:30 PM
Place: Red's Old 395 Grill, 1055 S. Carson Street
Please reply to RSVP to Marty McGarry: martyann33@gmail.comJill Derby, PhD, has more than 30 years’ experience working nationally and internationally in higher education governance. Between 1989 and 2006, she served on the Nevada Board of Regents, including three terms as board chair. In 2015, she was a keynote speaker on the topic of board governance at the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Higher Education Summit in Abu Dhabi. She has served as an AGB consultant since 2005 and has been a senior fellow since 2019.
Derby was a founder of the Guinn Center for Policy Priorities, a centrist think tank for economic and educational policy in Nevada. As chair of the Nevada System of Higher Education, she provided critical leadership during a period of rapid growth. She led the initiative to establish Nevada’s first state college, created a board development committee to improve board performance, and focused the board on statewide strategic planning during a transition of system heads. Derby also was involved in policymaking at the state level, serving on the Nevada Supreme Court Gender Bias Task Force, the State Judiciary Selection Commission, and the Nevada Humanities Commission. She served on the Nevada Blue Ribbon Education Reform Task Force and a statewide Community College Task Force.
In 2012, Derby received a U.S. Senate appointment to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), which oversees U.S. accreditation of higher education institutions and advises the secretary of education on higher education policy. In 2023, she stepped down after serving seven years as the board chair of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, in Kurdistan.
All friends and family welcome!
Guest Speaker, Feb 15: Fred Lokken
"Democracy is fragile. All of the guardrails are off as of January 20th."
Watercolor Plein Air Events
2nd Annual Plein Air Event: September 15-18, 2022: Click here for more information
- Paint plein air in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in this second annual watercolor plein air 2-Phased competition and charitable auction event.
- Over $2500 in cash and prizes / Best of Show Award $1000 (BOS award must be a plein air only entry)
- Phase I – Juried Painting / Phase II – Plein Air Painting
- Register as an ARTIST or GUEST
- Artist Event Registration: $70/$60 early bird (ends May 1)
- Reception Tickets: $40
- Register as an ARTIST or GUEST
- All proceeds from this fundraising event will be donated to the local non-profit Capital City C.I.R.C.L.E.S Intitiative, and a Western Nevada College scholarship fund.
Competition sponsored by artist Colleen Reynolds. Auction event coordinated by Carson City Democratic Women's Club.
1st Annual Plein Air, 2021: Click here more information about last year's event
Support CCDWC efforts or pay club dues: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ccdwc
Carson City Democrats celebrated the fund raising efforts of its First Annual Plein Air Watercolor Competition. There was a $3,000 donation made to the C.I.R.C.L.E.S. Initiative for its work combating long term poverty and a $1,000 donation to a long standing scholarship fund at WNC targeted for Carson City students.