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The Channel City Club
now including the Committee on Foreign Relations
Santa Barbara’s Window on the World

CCC
The Channel City Club was founded in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, to provide the community with a local venue for outstanding experts on state, national, and international issues.

CFR
The  Committee on Foreign Relations promotes foreign relations dialogue  through
lecture-discussions.

 

You are cordially invited to attend:

Annual Christmas Brunch & Program

Hilton Beachfront Hotel - Reagan Room

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
9:30am – 11:45am

 

Montecito Union School Chorus performance
Under the Direction of Pam Herzog

 

Featured speaker: Andrea Donnellan, Ph.D. 

 

Topic: Earthquake faults in California and how we use remote sensing to study them

Andrea Donnellan, PhD is manager of the Instrument Systems Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a JPL Senior Research Scientist. She leads NASA’s Surface Topography and Vegetation Study and is principal investigator of the QUAKES stereoimaging instrument suite. She is on the NISAR Science Team. Donnellan studies earthquakes and crustal deformation combining a variety of geodetic imaging techniques with computational modeling and infrastructure. Donnellan is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Explorers Club. In 1996 she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers. Donnellan was a finalist in the astronaut selection process three times. The Donnellan Glacier in Antarctica was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006 for her work on the Antarctic continent.

Andrea Donnellan, Ph.D.

​​Schedule:
9:30AM    Check in begins
10:00AM  Brunch service 
10:30AM  Montecito Union School Chorus 
10:45AM  Andrea Donnellan, Ph.D. Presentation
11:45AM  Program concludes 


Thank you to our generous anonymous CCC member who sponsored this program!
 

REGISTRATION for this event is REQUIRED by Friday, November 29th 
 

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Changing Trends in Middle East Politics

Jerrold D. Green, Ph.D.

Immediate Past President & CEO of the Pacific Council on International Policy 
 

Global Advisor to Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles

Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

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The Impact of Russia's War in Ukraine on the Caucasus:  Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Jennifer S. Wistrand, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Kennan Institute

2024 Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta poster with dancers and  Santa Barbara Mission

Viva el Centenario
Fiesta 1924 - 2024

Channel City Club Member Co-hosts:
Former La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow & former El Presidente W. Scott Burns

Performers: Fiesta Spirit Georgey Taupin and Junior Spirit Aleenah Soriano

Charles H. Dallara, Ph.D.

Euroshock*
How the Largest Debt Restructuring in History Helped Save Greece and Preserve the Eurozone

Charles H. Dallara, Ph.D.
Author*

David Ruffley in front of building in London

Britain and the US post-Brexit

David Ruffley
Former Member of Parliament (18 years)

Portrait of Major Kenneth Bell, USAF

Great Power Competition in Space

Maj Kenneth Bell, USAF
Faculty, National Intelligence University
Global Security Intelligence Studies Dept.

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Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 2247
Santa Barbara, CA 93120

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