George Khoury Dinner Club - June Event

The GEORGE KHOURY DINNER CLUB IS A MONTHLY GET-together designed to celebrate and promote the diversity of our communities. It is a dynamic space for globally minded people from different backgrounds to interact. Our members include military veterans, people working for nonprofits and international organizations, diplomats, business leaders, academics, federal workers, and others.  THIS MONTH'S FEATURED GUEST IS SEEMA REZA, LEADING A UNIQUE FACILITATED DISCUSSION AND ACTIVITY ABOUT CULTURE. Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of _When the World Breaks Open _(Red Hen Press) and _You, _forthcoming from Write Bloody in 2019. Based outside of Washington DC she is the Chair of Community Building Art Works [http://communitybuildingartworks.org/], a unique hospital arts program that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. In 2015 she was awarded the Col John Gioia Patriot Award by USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore for her work with service members. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, her writing has appeared on-line and in print in _Bellevue Literary Review, The LA Review, The Feminist Wire, HerKind_, _The Offing, _and _Entropy _among others. DETAILS ABOUT THE EVENT The George Khoury Dinner Club includes a catered dinner, guest speakers, and an opportunity to network and socialize with fellow members.  Guests typically arrive between 6:30PM - 7:30PM for a cash bar cocktail hour. The dinner and speaker event lasts from 7:30PM - 9:30PM and attendees are encouraged to stay afterwards for continued discussions and networking. Our speakers typically talk about their experiences of successfully working across cultures, the importance of a global perspective in business and government, ideas to strengthen our communities, and other relevant topics.