JPro San Diego’s Luminary Breakfast series kicks off this fall! Start your morning with special access to San Diego’s inspirational, dynamic and entrepreneurial lay leaders. Pull back the curtain as we explore these leaders’ trajectory as both cherished professionals and volunteers of our Jewish organizations with opportunities for Q&A.
Highlights of each breakfast:
- Engaging Speaker: Hear from a distinguished leader who will share insights and stories in their area of expertise.
- Networking Opportunities: Grow your relationships with colleagues, expand your network, and explore potential collaborations.
- Delicious Breakfast: Fuel your day with a gourmet spread, including a variety of kosher options.
- Inspiring Atmosphere: Surround yourself with motivated individuals in a welcoming and vibrant environment.
Our inaugural session will be a conversation with serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former San Diego City Council Member Barbara Bry, facilitated by Leichtag Foundation CEO Charlene Seidle. Barbara is currently the chief operating officer for Blackbird Ventures that invests in and incubates early stage technology companies. In addition, she and her husband Neil Senturia teach entrepreneurship at UC San Diego and write a weekly column on entrepreneurship for the San Diego Union Tribune. The companies/organizations that she helped to start include Proflowers, Provide Commerce, San Diego Athena, Run Women Run, and Voice of San Diego. Barbara is former chair of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of San Diego who has held leadership positions on many local boards.
Congregation Beth Israel
9001 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA 92122
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.