Kristin Melville, executive director of the WCA Foundation, introduced the day’s program, held in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Foundation and The Rotary Club of Jamestown, NY partnered with support from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation to make the educational presentation available to members and community guests. Kristin welcomed Nabeela K. Patail, MD, a board-certified hematologist and medical oncologist at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at UPMC Chautauqua.
Mark Coolidge Johnson is the 19th president of the Chautauqua Institution. A Senior Foreign Service Officer, attorney and third generation Chautauquan. Johnson brings more than three decades of diplomatic service and executive leadership experience to one of America’s leading centers for education, the arts, religion and recreation.
Caitlin next introduced our speaker, Stacey Ott-Demangate, CEO, of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Stacey joined RTPI in January, coming from a similar position at the California Nature Art Museum in Santa Barbara County. Before that, she was the executive director at the Catalina Island Museum in southern California. She earned a master’s in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a bachelor’s in anthropology from Arizona State University.
