EVENTS

Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting (virtual) of the United Nations Association of Boulder County, March 13,2023, 5:30 p.m.

Please join us via Zoom for our annual meeting, March 13 at 5:30 p.m., our regular gathering of the full membership of UNA-BC. This is an opportunity for you to learn about the recent and ongoing activities and accomplishments of your UNA chapter. The annual meeting includes the president’s report summarizing UNA-BC activities, the treasurer’s report, membership and board member reports, election of board members and officers who will renew for continuing terms, an update on the activities of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee, our advocacy campaigns, and the projects of our interns. We will present several new and continuing initiatives that advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and we hope to enlist you in the support of these campaigns.

This once-a-year meeting keeps you in the UNA-USA loop.

Program for the Annual Meeting (virtual) of the United Nations Association of Boulder

I. Welcome, Introduction of Officers, Board of Directors, Interns and President’s Report (Robert McNown)

II. Treasurer’s Report (Judy Green)

III. Re-election of Board of Directors and Officers:

Judy Green, Treasurer

Robert McNown, President

Zuza Bohley, Vice President

Secretary

Carl Hunt

Doug Snyder (resigning May 2023)

Kelly McGinnis

Amy Bryant (UNA-USA Regional Representative)

Amy Van Roo

Laura Parsons

Susanne Stadlbauer

Tinbet Tinstman

IV. Report from the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee

V. Adjournment of 2023 Annual Meeting

Robert McNown is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Annual Meeting of UNA-BC

Time: Mar 13, 2023 05:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Bill Kellogg Discussion Series

Our next meeting of the Bill Kellogg UNA-BC Discussion Series will be held on Tuesday March 14, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Arapahoe Room of the Main Branch of the Boulder Public Library.

Our discussion on “From Omaha Beach to Bucha Ukraine: Pathways towards Peace and Healing” will be led by Douglas

Gardner, who was a senior official at the United Nations with assignments that included Kiev, Ukraine.

Click here to read his recent op-ed presenting strategies for dealing with the situation in Ukraine.

Douglas Gardner had a distinguished thirty year career in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with various posts around the globe and at HQ in New York. He was assigned by the UN Secretary General as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Kiev Ukraine from 2000-2004. Other senior level field assignments with the UN UNDP included Mongolia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Burkina Faso. On his last assignment in New York as Deputy Assistant Secretary General, he co-led UNDP’s policy work around the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) and subsequent Sustainable Development Goals.

After his service in the UN, Douglas Gardner directed Occidental College’s Kahane Program at the United Nations from 2012 to 2020. He presently serves as the Director of the Highland Institute for the Advancement of Humanity, a Boulder based think tank.