Morgan is a strategic civic engagement leader with a career path winding from start-ups and nonprofits to multinational foundations and Fortune 500 brands. In her role at Unify America, Morgan leads the team building new, participatory civic infrastructure and tools for collaborative problem-solving across the United States.
Morgan began her career as a management consultant specializing in brand growth and new product launches. She later founded an Ohio-based marketing and communications agency, focusing on amplifying missions and building community. She’s a former Akron Public Schools board member and supports local education, arts, and leadership nonprofits. She is an avid fan of skeeball, book clubs, and all things Akron, Ohio. She lives in Akron with her two young kids and her husband, a fellow Ohio University alum.
On May 28th volunteers gathered to help at the Akron-Canton Foodbank.
They did what is called the Starbucks project.
They sorted through 6,400 pounds of bakery products from Starbucks.
This resulted in enough product to serve over 5,200 meals!
Photo L-R:
David Hall, Judge Kathryn Michael, Cyndi Kane, Michael Kane, Dr. Rob McGregor
How did you spend Friday evening May 23rd?
Well, this fun group of Akron Rotarians got together to serve at ACCESS, Inc. Chicken pot pie, LOTS of green beans, rolls/butter, cookies, and laughs were all on the menu!
Thanks ladies for coming out to serve.
Photo L-R: President-Elect Katy Miller, PDG Julie Brandle, Angie Claypool, Lori Wemhoff, Karen Hrdlicka, Marissa Rufe, Liv Pilon
Fellow member, Gerry Kiefer will have her artwork featured in June-July at Akron Women's City Club (AWCC).
The show will be "'Curious and Curiouser'": Cabinets of Curiosity and Magical Islands."
It will comprise primarily shadow box-framed, hand altered prints of her magical island, Iceland, from the 16th through the 19th century.
A number of them will contain actual objects, Icelandic spar and Icelandic lava specimens. She will be taking her lead from the AWCC library's design, with multiple shelves in glass-lined cabinets, to show how the shape and feel of Iceland took off from the exotic object cabinets assembled first, by Dutch wealthy merchant families of the 17th century, and later, by explorers and writers primarily in northern Europe.
Each segment of the show will be introduced by a hand-written explanatory note (from Gerry, of course!).
All will be for sale, listed as $200-$300 each. Individual works will be titled with numbers only, keyed to a price list which will be available in the gallery.
Happy New Year! I hope that each of you and your families had a wonderful Christmas and holiday season overall!
It's that time of year again where I send out everyone's favorite email - plus, you will get to hear my voice even more than usual at club meetings (cue the eyerolls and groans - I know you can't wait!) as I announce the need for volunteers to assist with the following roles at our club meetings for the 1st half of 2025: Greeter (& "Daily Lotto" sales), Invocation Speaker, & Meeting/Technology Set-Up.
My most sincere appreciation and gratitude goes out to the faithful “regulars” I have been able to consistently count on to help fill the respective roles or jump in last minute to cover an empty slot (you know who you are). I also appreciate the handful of "newcomers" (both established and newer members) who helped throughout the course of last year or expressed a willingness to do so moving forward.
I would like to encourage anyone that has either never served as Greeter or Invocator (or who has only done so sparingly) to consider volunteering for a few slots during this 1st half of 2025 - I'd be immensely thankful to see my list of "regulars" grow. Not only are these roles a much appreciated and valued service to the club, but they also present an excellent opportunity to immerse oneself in the weekly meetings.
If you need help signing up, please let me know and I can direct you to the appropriate location on the Rotary Club of Akron website, or I will gladly fill in your name for whatever date(s) you are able and willing to volunteer. For convenience, here is the public URL to the relevant volunteer sign-up page:
For Greeters, please plan to arrive by 11:40ish (if possible) and be prepared to help sell Daily Lotto raffle tickets and have the speaker pull the winning ticket at the end of the meeting.
For Invocation Speakers, I have provided some links with sample invocations below. You are quite welcome to create your own invocation, of course, but please know that custom content is not a requirement! I am happy to assist with this too. In fact, I'll even provide an invocation for you to read if that's what it will take for you to sign up. I assure you, this need not be an intimidating volunteer role for the meeting!
For Meeting/Technology Set-Up, the duties currently require:
Ensuring the computer, projector, and microphones are all up and running smoothly before the start of the meeting. NOTE: Brian Kosarko, Michael Gladysz, or I can/will help train new volunteers - we would certainly appreciate expanding the rotation for this role.
If necessary, correcting the flag positioning so that when viewed from the audience, the U.S./American Flag is to the left of the speaker/podium and the Ohio Flag is on the right.
Thank you in advance for volunteering!
Yours in service,
CJ
Connor G. Jarvis, CFP®
Sergeant of Arms
Rotary Club of Akron
Some links with sample invocations (if needed/desired):
The show will be "'Curious and Curiouser'": Cabinets of Curiosity and Magical Islands." 
Yours in service,
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