Our speaker tonight is Denise Daniels, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Messages Project.
The mission of the Oklahoma Messages Project is: Reconnecting children with their incarcerated parents through shared reading via video messages to provide literacy and social-emotional support.
Oklahoma Messages Project helps incarcerated parents record shared reading sessions and personal messages for their children, strengthening emotional bonds, supporting literacy development, and improving educational outcomes.
Denise Daniels serves as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Messages Project, joining the organization in December 2024 following the retirement of founder Cheri
Fuller. With 20 years of experience championing vulnerable children and under served communities,
Denise is a dedicated servant leader. She believes that every effort—whether leading a major initiative or tackling a tedious daily task—has the power to shift the trajectory of a situation or simply brighten someone's day.
Denise lives in the Surrey Hills area of Yukon with her husband and their two dogs. She has three grown daughters and a spirited three-year-old granddaughter.
As our Rotary year comes to an end, we will celebrate at Dunlap Codding located at: 609 W Sheridan Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102. Our President will introduce the new President and new board members. Thanks for a wonderful year and we look forward to the new year!!!
New Volunteer Coordinator with The Employment Education Ministry Let's Welcome Matt Staples with TEEM. He replaced Nikki our past volunteer coordinator. His background is in College Ministry and recently relocated here from the wonderful state of Florida. He has been married to his wife Abby a little over 7 months. He will share with us the good works he does for TEEM and how we as Rotarians can help. |
COME ONE and COME ALL, The Bricktown Rotary is teeming up with the Salvation Army, Rococo's, & News Channel 4 to get as many fan's for those in need.
Bring a friend and Bring a fan or 2 to Rococo's on Western:4308 N Western Ave, OKC, OK 73118
https://loverococo.com/
Welcome all Rotarians we will be reviewing the upcoming Days of Wine and Rotary Fundraiser coming up.
We will visit about the Arts Festival Beer Tent
And go over ticket sales.
See you soon!!
Let's welcome Kesley,
After graduating from OSU, she served in the United States Peace Corps as a volunteer in the Agriculture and Rural Business program. Upon completion of her Peace Corps service, she married Yuri, a Moldovan businessman. Together they established a farming LLC and began to reorganize a soviet collective farm in the south of Moldova on the border with Ukraine. After 10 years, their operation has grown to over 6,000 acres with 35 employees in two villages. They produce wheat, corn, canola, barley, and Sunflowers.
She an economist, mom and so much more, she will share with us life in Ok and Moldova.