Friday, July 11, 2025 at North Beach Restaurant: David Todd of Abundant San Francisco
- tarmour2
- Jul 7
- 2 min read
This Friday, July 11 Sac Sem’s guest is David Todd of Abundant San Francisco. He’ll be introduced by Sac Sem co-vice chair Linda Muir.
From the SF Examiner, “How Abundant SF remade The City’s Democratic Party: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/how-abundant-sf-remade-the-san-francisco-democratic-party/article_32acbf3e-e6e2-11ee-8fd9-4fea6ff4e41e.html
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Your editor Dick Spotswood writes about one of the original Sacramento Seminarians, Bill BAGLEY, in his twice weekly column in The Marin Independent Journal:
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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 email DENNIS WHEATLEY at 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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On Friday, July 18 our guest is Donne Brownsey, past chair of California’s Coastal Commission. Ms Brownsey was a senior Vice President of Sacramento Advocates Inc., a lobbying firm, and then ran her own firm, Government Solutions Inc., where she represented corporate and nonprofit interests, business associations, and labor unions. Earlier, Ms. Brownsey was chief legislative consultant for state Sen. David Roberti and was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Coastal Commission from 2017 to 2024. She’ll be introduced by Seminarian Dion Arner.
Aaron Peskin is Sac Sem’s guest on Friday, July 25. He’ll be introduced by Seminarian Ron Boring. The Berkeley native and U.C. Santa Cruz grad was a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors from 2001- to 2009 and from 2015- to 2025 representing District 3 (North Beach/Chinatown/Nob Hill and Polk Gulch). Last November Aaron ran for mayor, coming in third behind the winner Dan Lurie and London Breed.
On 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/ Check out 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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Clemens_Young 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.
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. He will be introduced by the Seminar’s chair Greg Ryken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “People are horrible at detecting BS.” Prof. John Petrocelli
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