Speakers
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| Matthew Jarrell, Transportation ServiceManager Lex | Oct 19, 2026 12:15 PM |
Managing Transportation in Lexington
Managing Transportation in Lexington
Please join us in welcoming Lexington's new Transportation Services Manager, Matthew Jarrell!
Matthew is especially passionate about providing world-class infrastructure and amenities for those who get around by bus, bike, assisted mobility device, and foot. He looks forward to broadening mobility opportunities of all kinds for everyone here in Lexington! Bio:
Matthew recently graduated from the Master in City Planning program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he focused his studies on transportation and community development. He is deeply committed to ensuring that the Town’s residents can easily and comfortably access the resources they need via whatever mode of transportation they choose.
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| Karin Lewis, CPC | Nov 09, 2026 12:15 PM |
Beyond Bouncing Back: A New Way to Think About Resilience
 Beyond Bouncing Back: A New Way to Think About Resilience
We often think of resilience as the ability to bounce back when life gets difficult, to keep going, push through, and return to the person we were before. But what if resilience isn't about going back at all? In Beyond Bouncing Back, Karin Lewis offers a more compassionate and useful definition of resilience, drawing from both her professional experience and her own extraordinary journey through adversity. She explores what happens when the strategies that once helped us survive and succeed, perfectionism, control, independence, and always being the one who can handle it, no longer serve us. Rather than asking us to become harder or stronger, she invites us to learn how to find our footing when life changes underneath us, without turning against ourselves in the process.
Bio: Karin Lewis, CPC is a Boston-area Certified Professional Coach, speaker, and founder of the Center for Resilience and Growth. For more than two decades, she worked in the eating-disorder field, developing and leading treatment programs and ultimately founding the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. She also created and hosted Recovery Bites, a podcast featuring conversations with clinicians, advocates, authors, and others about recovery without shame.
Karin's work today focuses on resilience, self-compassion, shame, perfectionism, and the challenges of navigating major life transitions. Her approach is informed not only by her professional experience, but by her own journey through anorexia, surviving a four-story balcony collapse in San Francisco, profound personal loss, and a significant professional crisis that forced her to reconsider identity, success, and what it means to begin again.
She speaks about resilience not as simply “bouncing back,” but as learning to find your footing, meet yourself with compassion, and grow forward when life changes underneath you.
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| Jacqeline Rwanika-LaRoche | Dec 07, 2026 12:15 PM |
Classification Talk
 We welcome Jacqueline Rwanika-LaRoche (Jackie), a new member of the Rotary Club of Lexington, although she has already been with us for at least several months. This presentation will be her classification talk, so that she can get better to know us and we better to know her. It will include her background, her work, how she arrived at the occupation or profession in which she is involved, etc. After her formal presentation, Jackie will entertain any questions in the Q and A portion. Bio: Jackie is a Registered Nurse, healthcare entrepreneur, and community leader dedicated to aging‑in‑place, preventative care, and mental health, currently pursuing her Doctorate as a Nurse Practitioner at UMass Chan with a focus on Psychiatry and Global Health Initiatives. |