Harry Roberts

My name is Harry Roberts, and I have been volunteering with ShelterBox for over 15 years as a Global Ambassador and Response Team member. During this time, I have deployed to countries across Africa and Asia, delivering vital shelter aid to communities affected by disasters and conflict. ShelterBox’s mission is simple but powerful: no one should be without shelter. Although we are a small charity, we pride ourselves on being shelter specialists, able to respond quickly and effectively, even in the most remote and challenging disaster environments. I am looking forward to sharing our experiences in disaster relief during a time where vulnerable, global communities are being affected on a daily basis by climate change and conflict.

Sarah Muller

My name is Sarah Muller, and I have been part of the Experiential Education team at KIS for the past three years. Before that, I worked as an Outdoor Education Coordinator at a school in Europe. Through designing and leading outdoor education programs, I have seen how powerful these experiences are for students. When students step into their challenge zone—such as facing a fear of heights, hiking in difficult weather, or rooming with peers they don’t know well—they build confidence, resilience, and problem-solving skills. These experiences help students develop problem solving skills and resilience which apply later in real-life challenges in school, or work.

Bobby Lincoln

In my teaching career, I have helped students organize and carry out various service opportunities within a multitude of local communities. I enjoy guiding the process from goal setting to brainstorming, to strategizing and executing manageable solutions with maximal impact.

Rushton Hurley

Rushton Hurley has worked all over the globe as a Japanese language teacher, school principal, school improvement consultant, and speaker on innovative learning and communication. He is the Director of Innovation at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, also directs the educational nonprofit Next Vista for Learning, and holds masters degrees in Education and East Asian Studies from Stanford University.

The author of three books, Rushton's talks and writing center on inspiration and creativity, technology and leadership, avenues for engaging learning, the power of digital media and tools for collaboration, and personal and professional perspectives in a technology-infused, ever-changing world. He has also produced mini-courses with the Canadian company Warm Demanders on using generative AI, improved staff and team meetings, and more.

Rushton has been a Rotarian since 2004, as a member of the San Antonio Downtown Club (the world's largest, at the time), the Rotary Club of Santa Clara, the Rotary eClub of the Southwest USA (one of the first online clubs in Rotary), and now the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, for which he was its charter president. He holds a special interest in how technology can serve the business of service, and looks forward to sharing with and learning from you.

Peter A

Hello! I’m Mr A, I am the Service Learning Coordinator at the International School Bangkok. I’m passionate about creating meaningful, student-led service experiences. I believe young people have powerful ideas and the ability to create real change when they’re given the space, trust, and support to lead. The Summit is about learning from each other, taking action, and building a community that cares.

Sharla Dawn Robinson Ng

Sharla Dawn Robinson Ng is a poet living in a northwestern river valley in the United States. She recently recited one of her poems on the US east coast at the Walt Whitman Birthplace. Sharla recited along with numerous other poets whose poems were published in an anthology called What Unites Us: Prose, Poetry and the Constitution, Democracy, Rule of Law (2025).

Sharla is a state government employment-law attorney. Her legal service experience includes grading bar exams, delivering family law presentations to immigrants and counselors, and contributing legal information for a booklet on law for young adults.
Her other service work includes building a hiking trail in the Boise foothills, researching a historic nuclear event for Idaho Public Television, and being a library foundation board member.

Sharla’s service in the international community includes giving a speech for Korea International School’s Be a Book program in 2019, when her two children attended KIS. Deeply grateful for her family’s international experiences, Sharla believes service work is a form of reciprocity which satisfies the fundamental drive to belong.
 

Lindsay N

I’ve worked alongside peers, educators, and professionals to address issues such as homelessness, global inequality, and environmental conservation, focused on ocean conservation.

Through these experiences, I’ve helped my teams brainstorm and implement service-learning projects, as well as evaluate ways communities can better support people in need.

Volunteering: Raking Leaves, Soup kitchen, Homeless Shelter.

As I have focused many projects on ocean conservation, I’ve assisted in addressing plastic pollution and coral reef protection, helping turn environmental science into actionable ideas students can apply in their own communities.

At the Summit, I’ll serve as a mentor/ a resource students can bounce ideas off of, helping students ask meaningful questions, think critically, and collaborate thoughtfully.

Stephen Hoffman

"Service leadership is a critical component of my life's pursuit! It is a value, philosophy, and continuous goal. One of my favorite quotes about service is from Mohandis Gandhi, ""The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” 

Some of my favorite experiences include:
--Bankin-It! The goals of Bankin-It! are: 1) To offer incredible meals during the holidays, 2) To activate practices for giving in young adults, and 3) to let young adults see the real cost of food so they can understand the impact on their families. Bankin-It! is in its 31st year!

--Peace Corps in the Solomon Islands (1987-90""). I served as a volunteer in a remote island, Santa Cruz, in the Solomon chain! I served as a local government advisor, as a radio program creator called ""Govman Save"" and as an elementary school teacher (my secondary project). I was also a trainer for new volunteers for two program cycles where we developed a training manual to assist teachers from the United States as they ntegrated and understood education in the Solomon Islands.

--Speaker for Opportunities in Emergency Health Care (OEC), creator of elaborate tutoring program at Cooper High School called ""Catch Up & Succeed"", creator of integrated program learning program called ""LIFT"" Learning in Families Together through the YWCA of St. Paul, developer of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in Robbinsdale Area Schools, and new listener and investigator of all that is South Korean!!"

Diane Candella

​Hello, I’m excited to share my experiences with you! I have been the Secondary Service Learning Coordinator at my school in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the past four years. The program had paused during Covid and I had the challenge of relaunching it and adapting it to new realities. Now one real-world problem we faced recently with my service learning group (Basha) was finding a way to continue supporting the local daycare we work with while adhering to security restrictions that prevented us from visiting in person. To solve this, we organized weekly online classes and donated resources (iPads), ensuring the daycare children could continue learning some English with us and maintaining a students' connection with the children there.
I look forward to learning more about how service learning can address challenges and make a real impact in the community from all of you.