One Million Members …
Mark Levin
Want some tips on how to get and keep members for your Kiwanis club? Mark Levin has 101—and he’ll share some of them during convention. Levin has more than 30 years of experience in association and not-for-profit organizational management and has authored several well-endorsed books: Membership Development: 101 Ways to get and Keep Your Members, The Gift of Leadership, Millennium Membership, and Retention Wars: The New Rules of Engagement.
Building 10 Million Leaders …
Grant Lin
Key Club International President Grant Lin attends Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he is ranked first in his class academically. This past year, Grant earned a perfect score on his ACT; and in his free time, he plays piano and violin, is a black belt in tae kwon do, and enjoys playing a lot of “ultimate Frisbee.” In September 2007, he traveled with seven other Key Club members to Uganda, where he helped lay the foundation of a school being built with Key Club International funds. Grant was a Trustee to the International Board in 2006-07.
Amanda Badali
Circle K International President Amanda Badali is a junior at Arizona State University in Tempe, majoring in political science. No stranger to leadership in Kiwanis, she is a past Southwest District Circle K governor and past Pennsylvania District Key Club governor. When she’s not busy with Circle K—and classes—Amanda spends her free time at Arizona State as a tour guide, student orientation leader, and an officer of the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honor fraternity.
Serving 100 Million Children!
Sonia Manzano
You probably know Sonia Manzano as “Maria” from Sesame Street, but here’s your chance to meet the real woman behind the character. Manzano became one of the first Hispanic characters on national television more than 30 years ago when she joined the Sesame Street cast. Today, when she’s not hanging with Elmo or fixing toasters as she sings, she adds activist, advocate, and author to her tool belt. And she’s not only a household name in the United States. Sesame Street—which has received more than 100 Emmy nominations—has been televised in 120 countries, and more than 30 international versions have been produced.