Jeff Zeleny serves as CNN's senior Washington correspondent, covering the overall 2020 campaign. Most recently he served as the network's Senior White House Correspondent covering the Trump administration with a focus on President Trump's pivotal role in the 2018 midterm election campaign for all of the network's programs and platforms. This is the third consecutive presidency Zeleny has covered, traveling across the country and around the world with George W. Bush and Barack Obama
In 2015, he joined CNN from ABC News where he was their senior Washington correspondent. Prior to ABC News, Zeleny was the national political correspondent for The New York Times. He has also previously covered Congress for the Times. Before The New York Times, he was the national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He joined the Tribune in 2000 as a reporter on the Metropolitan desk in Chicago, where he was a member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for documenting gridlock in the nation's air traffic system.
Zeleny, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, began his journalism career at the Des Moines Register and is a native of Exeter, Nebraska.
September 08, 2020, Meeting Details: When: September 08, 2020, 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) The room opens at 11:30 AM
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As a Chicago, Illinois native John Goodwin has made Lincoln, Nebraska, his home since 1996. Since arriving in Lincoln, John has consistently involved himself within the community. He worked for Lincoln Public School for twenty years as a Campus Supervisor and Football Coach.
As of October 2019, John has officially been named Malone’s Executive Director. John brings life, energy, and motivation to maximize the potential and growth of his leadership team, staff, and youth. John is eager and excited to take our community where it needs to go. Outside of the Malone, John is involved in; the Childhood Implementation Team and Neighborhoods Implementation for the city. John is married to Chassidy Jackson-Goodwin, who serves in the Lincoln police department. In John’s free time he enjoys spending time with his family, exploring the local eats of Lincoln, training in Martial Arts, and exercising.
Welcome to Rotary, John! Thank you, Bill Michener and Mike Wortman for sponsoring Jonh to Rotary. Read more about John, click here.
Victoria Grasso is President of the Cooper Foundation, a private grant making institution founded in Lincoln in 1934. She started with the foundation in 1994 and served in a number of positions before being named President in 2019. Victoria has served on committees and boards of several nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, and the Membership committee of Cause Collective.
Victoria’s husband Dan Grasso is President of Sinclair Hille architects, and they have two children and three grandchildren. When they aren’t spending time with the kids, they love art, travel, and cooking.
Thank you, Eric Drumheller, for sponsoring Victoria to Rotary. Welcome to Rotary, Victoria! Read more.
Last week at Rotary Eric Drumheller presided the meeting with secretary Morrie Enders. Virtual meeting host was Ryan Dobesh. Virtual greeter was John Overocker and program host, Randy Bretz introduced speaker Mariette Fourmeaux; Rotary Peace Fellow from CA. She shared details about Rotary International’s efforts to promote peace, and talked about what it’s like to work with residents of a correctional facility. President Eric Drumheller thanked the following members who donated to the Annual Club Projects Fund during August: Lorie Cook-Benjamin, Sandi Fabry, Jane Renner Hill, Chris Hove, Art Knox, Patsy Koch-Johns, Roger Lempke, Roger Ludemann, Martin Massengale, Pat McCashland, Dave Pauley, Bruce Rippeteau, and John Zimmer. Two new members were welcomed John Goodwin Executive Director, Malone Community Center (sponsors: Mike Wortman, Bill Michener) and Victoria Grasso, President, Cooper Foundation (sponsor: Eric Drumheller). Please keep Tom Allman and his family in your thoughts. Tom’s mom, Jane, passed away on August 21. Events coming up are the virtual International Student Picnic on September 20 at 4 p.m. This weeks book donors were Chuck Schroeder for Eastridge; Dear Substitute in honor of our speaker and Susan Stibal for Kloefkorn; The One and Only Bob in honor of Bodie Ardinger Stibal.
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As a Chicago, Illinois native John Goodwin has made Lincoln, Nebraska, his home since 1996. Since arriving in Lincoln, John has consistently involved himself within the community. He worked for Lincoln Public School for twenty years as a Campus Supervisor and Football Coach. 
