Speakers

Speaker Date Topic
Jo Molz Oct 13, 2026 12:15 PM
Blankets for Kids
Jo Molz is the founder of Blankets for Kids, a Tri-Valley non-profit dedicated to providing hand-made blankets to abused and neglected children. Born and raised in Oakland, Jo and her husband moved to Pleasanton in the mid-1960s, where they raised their family. In retirement, with encouragement from her daughter, she launched the organization in 2004, and in the years since, she and her team of volunteers have grown it from a local effort into one known throughout the Bay Area, providing blankets to organizations across California.
 
Jo will share her story and talk about how our club can support her mission. Please join me in giving her a warm Dublin Rotary welcome.
Prachi Sharma Oct 27, 2026 12:15 PM
What Grief Built: Reinvention, Family Legacy, and Giving Young Voices a Place to Begin
What Grief Built: Reinvention, Family Legacy, and Giving Young Voices a Place to Begin

Prachi Sharma is a Bay Area author and the founder of The Sapling Press, a children's publishing house where every book is written by a young author. Alongside her career as a tech engineer, she founded Sapling Press after losing her mother in 2022, turning grief into a family legacy of storytelling — a journey she explores in her books Manju: A Life of Grit, Grace and Greatness and Paws Around the World. Her writing has appeared in KQED Perspectives, IndiaWest, and The Arunachal Times, and the press has published nine books by seven young authors.