Stephanie A. Urchick has been an RI director and Rotary Foundation trustee and has served Rotary in numerous capacities, including as training leader, regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, and RI president’s representative. In addition, Urchick was a representative and member-at-large at three sessions of the Council on Legislation.

Urchick has also served as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and The Rotary Foundation’s Centennial Celebration Committee, as well as a member of various Rotary committees, including the Election Review Committee and Operational Review Committee.

A Rotary member since 1991, Urchick has participated in a variety of international service projects, including National Immunization Days in India and Nigeria. In Vietnam, she worked with clubs to help build a primary school and traveled to the Dominican Republic to install water filters. A student of several Slavic languages, she has mentored new Rotary members in Ukraine and coordinated a Rotary Foundation grant for mammography equipment and a biopsy unit for a hospital in Poland. In its commemorative book, the Rotary Club of Krakow, Poland, noted Urchick as a key figure for helping the rebirth of Rotary in post-Communist Poland. Urchick has also helped to pair clubs and districts in the U.S. with Rotary clubs in Albania, Kosovo, and Ukraine for humanitarian and educational services.

Urchick’s professional background is in the higher education, consulting, and entertainment industries. She received her doctorate degree in Leadership Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized by The Rotary Foundation and numerous community and international organizations.

Beth Stubbs is a certified public accountant who earned her degree at Plymouth State College. After working as a CPA at a Maryville firm, she set up her private practice in 1994, focusing on consulting to small-business owners on account management, finances, and exit strategies. She also worked as chief financial officer for her husband’s business, Trinity Benefit Advisors, for 14 years. Stubbs is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Public Accountants.

Stubbs, who first started frequenting Rotary club meetings at age 8 with her father, joined the Rotary Club of Maryville in 1991. She served her district in several capacities, including as chair of its finance, Foundation, and leadership development and education committees. Stubbs has attended 21 international conventions, traveled to New York City for Rotary Day at the United Nations, served in a National Immunization Day in India, traveled to Mexico for club partnership projects, and attended various zone meetings around the country.

During a zone meeting in New Orleans that she attended with a Rotary friend — before either had yet served as club president — she learned about Ambassadorial Scholarships and Group Study Exchange. Inspired after the meeting, she and her friend worked together to help set up these activities in her district. “We saw there was a whole world to Rotary, and we wanted to bring it to Maryville,” Stubbs says.

In addition to bagging and delivering food with her “small but mighty” Maryville club to school children, Stubbs has worked with her district to raise $1.3 million for polio eradication through the sale of “purple pinky” donuts and other fundraisers. The satellite club she helped start in her district is still going strong. “I look forward to applying my skills as a CFO on the Board, and to working with clubs in my zones to build the knowledge base about Rotary and its possibilities,” Stubbs says.

She has served on the boards of local nonprofits, including Michael Dunn Center, which helps people with developmental disabilities, and Asbury Place, a regional retirement community organization. She also served in officer positions in Toastmasters International and is active on several committees at her church. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and attending football and basketball games at the University of Tennessee.

She and her husband, Tony, support The Rotary Foundation as Arch Klumph Society members.

John Hewko is the general secretary and chief executive officer of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation.

From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries. At MCC, he was the principal United States negotiator for foreign assistance agreements to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. During his tenure, he completed the negotiation of assistance agreements totaling $6.3 billion to 18 countries for infrastructure, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education projects.

Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.

While working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, Hewko assisted the working group that prepared the initial draft of the new Ukrainian post-Soviet constitution and was a charter member of the first Rotary club in Kyiv.

Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published papers and articles in leading U.S. and international publications, and he has spoken extensively on political and business issues dealing with the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York.

As general secretary, Hewko leads a diverse staff of 800 at Rotary International’s World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices. He and his partner, Marga, are major donors to the Foundation. They live in Evanston.

Marcia Lindstrom leads the Strategic Communications team for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), America’s new super heavy-lift rocket that will launch humans to the Moon and send large, strategic payloads to numerous deep space destinations. Prior to joining the SLS team, Marcia managed the External Relations Office for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, engaging with key stakeholders in government and the aerospace industry local and nationwide.

Prior to her role as lead of the External Relations Office, she served as the Communications Strategist for NASA Headquarters, leading the agency’s efforts for large-scale events. Marcia came to NASA after more than a decade of work at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Her tenure at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center involved development efforts such as restoration of the Saturn V and included a six-year stint as the Director of Operations for the Center’s world-renowned Space Camp programs. Marcia is a veteran of the United States Air Force.

Darla M. Silva is an experienced senior advisor with a demonstrated history of working in child focused international organizations. As the Chief Program Officer, Darla provides direction, vision and voice to organizational leadership on UNICEF USA program strategy, trends, and priorities. She leads the engagement with UNICEF to guide global program investment and oversees the Community Alliance for Child Rights in the US focused on municipal partnerships, youth engagement and child research.

Prior to joining UNICEF USA, she was a Senior Advisor at UNICEF in the Public Partnerships Division (PPD), where she led UNICEF’s partnership engagement with the US government, with a portfolio of over $800 million annually. Previously she led the Humanitarian Financing Unit in UNICEF and served in the front office of the UNICEF Executive Director. From 2006 to 2010, she worked as a Humanitarian Affairs Officer at the United Nations Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva, where she helped coordinate consultations on humanitarian policy issues and served on a surge roster with deployments to Indonesia and Pakistan.

Before joining the United Nations, she was the Deputy Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at UNICEF USA in Washington DC and worked as the Washington Liaison for the Women’s Refugee Commission.

Originally from New Mexico, she is a long-time children’s advocate and served as counsel to US Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. She also worked as a Children’s Court Attorney in New Mexico handling child abuse and neglect cases.

Darla graduated cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in political science and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico.

She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband, William New.