Friday, August 15, 2025 at North Beach Restaurant: Christine Pelosi
- tarmour2
- Aug 11, 2025
- 3 min read
This Friday, August 15, Christine Pelosi will be the Seminar’s guest. She’s a graduate of Georgetown University and UC San Francisco (Hastings) School of Law. https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/30/christine-pelosi-scott-wiener-shadow-campaign/
Here's Ms. Pelosi’s Wikipedia bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Pelosi She’s’ a likely candidate to succeed her mother, Nancy Pelosi, if the later chooses not to run for reelection in 2026 in San Francisco’s 11th Congressional District.
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UPCOMING SEMINARS:
RSVP TO ATTEND any upcoming seminar. NEW WEDNESDAY DEADLINE. To assist the North Beach Restaurant’s kitchen staff with planning for our Friday lunchtime meetings please notify dennis@triticum.com NO LATER THAN MID-DAY ON the WEDNESDAY BEFORE EVERY SEMINAR if you plan to attend and indicate if you’ll be bringing a guest. Dennis DOES NOT need to know you are not attending.
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NEW RULE: VALET PARKING at the North Beach Restaurant: The NBR management has now determined that at least 10 people must request in advance to use their Noontime valet service. If there are less than (10) ten sign-ups, there will be no valet. To Register for Valet Parking for future seminars, contact Chair Greg Ryken at (415) 215-3775 or email him on the Wednesday before each seminar at Greg@rykenlaw.com
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Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, will be our featured speaker on Friday, August 22. He is the author of The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God and The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau. Rev. Young earned a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Theology in 2004 from Harvard University.
He’ll be introduced by seminarian Dan Riley.
Due to the Labor Day Weekend, there will be no seminar on Friday, August 29.
We start our Fall Speaker Series on Friday, September 12 with Janet Reilly, Chair of the University of California Board of Regents.
Past Congressmember and current member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Jackie Speier is our guest on Friday, September 26.
Supervisor Speier will be introduced by our chair, Greg Ryken.
On Friday, October 10 Sac Sem’s guest will be Silicon Valley investor Chris Larsen who has bankrolled several high-profile San Francisco political campaigns. Mr. Larson will be introduced by Sac Sem chair Greg Ryken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen
Sac Sem’s speaker on Friday, October 17 will be Professor Jack Citrin. His UC colleague, Seminarian Alan Unger will make the introduction. Professor Citrin teaches in the field of political behavior including political trust, direct democracy, national identity, and ethnic politics, including immigration and language politics. Professor Citrin received his B.A. and M.A. from McGill University in Montreal and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
Among Professor Citrin’s books are American Identity & the Politics of Multiculturalism (2014), Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (2009), Tax Revolt, Something for Nothing in California (1982,1985), After the Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Turns 30 (2009) and Nominating the President: Evolution and Revolution in 2008 and Beyond (2009).
Representative Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara County) will be Sac Sem’s guest on Friday, October 24.Starting at Noon, "on-the-dot” as he must depart by 1:30 p.m. https://khanna.house.gov/about/about-rep-khanna The Philadelphia born congressmember’s commitment to public service was inspired by his grandfather who was active in Gandhi's independence movement. Prior to serving in Congress, he taught economics at Stanford University and served as deputy assistant secretary of commerce in the Obama administration.
Da’Mayor, Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., will be Sac Sem’s guest on Friday, November 7. Chair Greg Ryken will have the honor of introducing “A man who needs no introduction.” Speakers Chair Mike Fitgerald arranged this program which will be very well attended. Don’t miss out. Please reserve your place now.
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.” Rev. Billy Graham
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