Join Leichtag Foundation staff and your neighbors for a farm-to-table brunch and ocean views while hearing from the visionary leadership of our neighborhood organizations.
Charlene Seidle, Executive Vice President of Leichtag Foundation, will moderate a panel including Ari Novy, Executive Director of the San Diego Botanic Garden, Pam Ferris, President and CEO of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, and Dr. Tim Baird, Encinitas Union School District Superintendent. The panel will explore the dynamic collaborations between our neighboring organizations, neighborhood growth, and exciting new initiatives, as well as challenges the neighborhood faces. Enjoy time to get to know your neighbors and learn more about this vibrant hub of our neighborhood.
You will also have an opportunity to discuss timely topics and ask questions about Leichtag Commons.
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.