Friday, July 25, 2025 at North Beach Restaurant: Aaron Peskin, former member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors

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 the incumbent, London Breed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Peskin

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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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After a long absence and due to popular demand, Friday, August 1 will be a Sac Sem roundtable. These sessions are a chance for us to make suggestions to save, or at least improve, the political world. We start at 12:15 p.m. at the usual location.

On Friday, August 8 Sac Sem’s guest is Canadian Consul General Rajar Sakar. He was appointed as Consul General of Canada in San Francisco / Silicon Valley in 2017, with accreditation for Northern California and Hawaii. He is also a member of Canada’s NAFTA Advisory Council. CG Sakar will be introduced by Seminarian Allan Unger.

Mr. Sarkar previously served as National Director for High Growth Markets at KPMG Canada, and co-chairman of the advisory board at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. From 2009 - 2013, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada-India Business Council. He attended the London School of Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and the INSEAD Executive Program in France.

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 11^th 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.  https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/members-and-advisors/bios/janet-reilly.html

Past Congressmember and current member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Jackie Speier is our guest on Friday, September 26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier

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. He will be introduced by the Seminar’s chair Greg Ryken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen

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OTHER THOUGHTS: “The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.” Simone de Beauvoir