COMING EVENTS
BoiseCFR Annual Membership Renewal
Note: Membership renewal notices for this coming season will be mailed to you in August. Dues payment can be made to BCFR, P.O. Box 2572, Boise, Idaho 83701.
BoiseCFR Meetings
Meetings are for members and invited guests. If you are not a member and would like to get further details about attending a meeting as a guest or joining, please go to our Membership page and fill out the simple form to receive more details about attending a meeting and joining the BoiseCFR.
Reservations for BoiseCFR Dinner Meetings
All persons attending a dinner meeting need to RSVP their attendance at least two days before the meeting. You can get information about making a reservation on our Reservations page.
Meetings are for members and invited guests. If you are not a member and would like to get further details about attending a meeting as a guest or joining, please go to our Membership page and fill out the simple form to receive more details about attending a meeting and joining the BoiseCFR.
BoiseCFR Covid-19 Dinner Meeting Protocol
Since there is still a threat of Covid-19, worldwide, the BoiseCFR Board is asking only fully immunized persons attend our dinner meeting. We have reduced the number of members at each dinner table, and have increased the spacing between tables. Masks are optional.
BoiseCFR May Meeting
Date:
Monday, May 22, 2023
Place: Riverside Hotel- Room TBD (click for hotel meeting room info & map)
Cost: $35.00, including tax and tip.
Please make checks payable to the Boise Committee on Foreign Relations.
Please
see the above note from the BoiseCFR Board on the present Covid-19
protocol for our dinner meetings.
Please return reservations
within two days before the meeting.
You must rsvp to make certain there will be sufficient seating and meals.
Topic: "Technology in an Era of Great Power Competition"
Bonnie Glick is an American diplomat and businesswoman who served as the Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2019 to 2020. Nominated for the post by President Donald Trump in April 2018, she was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent in January 2019.
On September 21, 2021, Glick was announced as the inaugural director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue during the Concordia Summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Glick worked for 12 years as a Foreign Service Officer at the United States Department of State. She later worked for IBM as a global account executive, where she co-authored three patents as part of IBM Research. Glick served as the Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Aging from 2017 until 2019 under Governor Larry Hogan.
Glick grew up in Chicago where she attended the Akiba Schechter Jewish Day School and Kenwood Academy. Glick graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Government and International Relations, where she was a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. She graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in International Affairs. She earned a Master's in Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
FUTURE BoiseCFR DINNER MEETINGS
We are working on a June speaker. Because we did not have a December or January meeting, we will attempt to schedule an early June meeting as a makeup meeting.
Boise Committee membership renewal notices for our 2022-2023 season were mailed in August. If you are not a member and are interested in joining the Boise Committee, please go to our Membership page to get more information about joining.
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