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Debra Lam is the Founding Executive Director of the Partnership for Innovation (PIN) at Georgia Tech, a regional public–private partnership advancing innovation, talent, and economic opportunity. Under her leadership, PIN has delivered more than 300 projects across 300 communities and has launched the PIN Fund, an evergreen investment vehicle making early-stage investments in high-potential, research-derived startups advancing community infrastructure, economic opportunity, and locally driven innovation. Formerly Pittsburgh’s first Chief of Innovation & Performance and a global consultant with Arup, she has worked across the U.S., UK, and Asia. Debra is a nationally recognized author and speaker on innovation and public–private partnerships and co-editor of a leading volume on community-centered smart cities. She holds degrees from Georgetown University and UC Berkeley and serves on several civic boards, including the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

Monthly Meeting of the KCA Board of Directors

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON.  Registration closes THURSDAY, Nov. 5  at Noon.

To View on Zoom:  Click Here.

Michael McPherson is a Municipal Services Consultant with the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA). He supports the 70 cities in the Metro Atlanta region, and serves as staff lead for both the Metro Atlanta Mayors Association (MAMA) and the GMA Member Servies Advisory Council. He joined the GMA Governmental Relations department in January of 2013 as lobbyist in charge of Revenue and Finance Policy, eventually taking on Environment and Natural Resources, and Community Development Policy, while mentoring new members of the team. Michael has served as GMA field service representative for multiple areas of the state including Southeast Georgia, and East Georgia. He lobbied the Georgia General Assembly during 15 legislative sessions on behalf of local governments and clients in the fields of mental health, affordable housing, healthcare, higher education, and the courts.

Michael serves on the board of directors of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta, and as Vice President of Mission: POW/MIA—a international non-profit seeking the recovery of missing American servicemembers. Mission: POW/MIA is a KEY implementing partner of the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative, a Congressionally funded humanitarian and reconciliation program supporting Vietnam’s efforts to locate, recover, and identify its many missing service members from the Vietnam War. Two groups of family members, veterans, and partners WENT to Vietnam in 2026 to help in the VWAI initiative, and to further the bond created since 1985 between our two countries in the effort to locate and repatriate American missing. 

Michael is a graduate of Georgia State University, where he studied Anthropology and Political Science. He is the single father of a 10-year-old daughter, Katherine Louise, and 8-year-old boy, Winfield Alton. He has served several different neighborhood associations, large festival committees, and is a native of Atlanta. He is a member of the BEST EVER Regional Leadership Institute Class of 2025. Michael enjoys reading histories and biographies, skateboarding, tennis, and making connections that strengthen the Metro Atlanta core.  

Monthly KCA Program Committee Meeting

Each month club members greet the troops at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.  Two shifts of volunteers needed:  10 am - 1 pm and 1 - 4 pm.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON.  Registration closes THURSDAY, Nov. 12  at Noon.

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Jeff Paschall Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Fieldale Farms, Baldwin, Georgia. Fieldale Farms is a family-owned poultry processor who currently processes over three million chickens per week and has $1.3 Billion in annual sales. Fieldale Farms has been in business for over 54 years with all their operations in northeast Georgia and employee 5,000 associates. Jeff has worked at Fieldale Farms in the Sales & Marketing department since 1992 and has worked to build the Springer Mountain Farms Brand for the past 29 years. He has worked in the poultry industry for over 39 years, spending five years in sales with Perdue Farms, Salisbury, Maryland. 

He serves locally at Lakewood Baptist Church as a deacon, in the golf cart ministry, and a coach for Upward Sports. Additionally, he served as a past Board Member and as a Past Chair for the National Protein & Food Distributors Association. (NPFDA)   

He grew up on a family farm in Western KY and still maintains the farm with his brother. As a Murray, Kentucky, native, Paschall holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Murray State University and an associate degree from Western Kentucky University. He and his lovely wife Julie, who have been married over 38 years, have three wonderful, amazing daughters; Sarah, Juliana, and Lilly. Three son-in laws (Nathan, Will, & Curry). Three amazing grandchildren, Miles, Owen & Bennie, who are simply perfect!

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

For details, please contact Emma Smith.

This is a brown bag lunch, so here are some quick and easy restaurant options below in case you forget to pack your lunch.

• Fooda pop up stand with different restaurants every week - One Buckhead Plaza, lower level lobby
• Rosetta Bakery - Two Buckhead Plaza, 3050 Peachtree Rd NW Suite A - 120
• Velvet Taco - 77 W Paces Ferry Rd NW Suite 35A
• The Salty Donut - 5 W Paces Ferry Rd NW
• Whole Foods - 77 W Paces Ferry Rd NW

You can either park in the Whole Foods parking lot or valet/park with the parking garage.

We will be meeting in the Paces Room conference center in the lower level lobby of One Buckhead Plaza.

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

Randall Suffolk is the director of the High Museum of Art. Since joining the High in 2015, he has led a significant transformation of the museum’s relationship with the city of Atlanta, championing an institutional approach centered on community engagement, accessibility, and inclusion. Under his leadership, the High has diversified its exhibitions and collection, expanded programming for families and younger audiences, and strengthened ties with community organizations. The museum’s visitors who identify as BIPOC have grown in number from fifteen percent in 2015 to fifty-five percent in 2025. As of 2026, nearly eighty percent of visitors are under age fifty-five, and membership has roughly doubled since 2021.

Suffolk is leading the High through its centennial year, an institution-wide celebration reflecting on the museum’s history and legacy while laying the groundwork for the next century. Centennial initiatives include sweeping reinstallations of the American and African art galleries, significant new acquisitions that build on the more than four thousand works that have entered the museum’s collection during Suffolk’s tenure, expanded partnerships and programming across Atlanta, and the museum’s first new brand identity since 2003.

Suffolk has been a museum director for over 25 years, and he regularly serves as a juror, panelist, and guest lecturer within the arts and culture industry. He holds master’s degrees in art history from Bryn Mawr College and in higher education administration from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts degree from Connecticut College, where he sits on the board. Suffolk is also a board member of Williamstown + Atlanta Art Conservation Center. He was named one of The Observer's Most Influential People in Art in 2024 and has been recognized among The Atlantan's 25 Most Influential People and Atlanta Magazine's Atlanta 500: Our City's Most Powerful Leaders.

Monthly Meeting of the KCA Board of Directors

For more information, please contact Emma Smith.

Eric Moyen, originally from Lexington, Kentucky, became the Dean of the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University in January 2026. A former secondary social studies teacher, Dr. Moyen has served in several administrative capacities for more than 27 years as an educator. At Mississippi State University, he helped dramatically increase the enrollment in Educational Leadership programs while also improving the department’s research and funding profile. Dr. Moyen previously served as MSU’s first assistant vice president for student success, where his leadership contributed to record-breaking student persistence rates. Prior to MSU, he held numerous roles at Lee University, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award – the highest recognition given to faculty. Dr. Moyen’s area of scholarly research is in the area of the history of higher education. He has written multiple books, including his most recent co-authored book College Sports: A History, with Johns Hopkins Press.

Monthly KCA Program Committee Meeting

Each month club members greet the troops at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.  Two shifts of volunteers needed:  10 am - 1 pm and 1 - 4 pm.

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

Please visit the KCA speaker page for complete bio information!

Luncheon fee is $25, payable by cash, check (made payable to Kiwanis Club of Atlanta), Zelle to @KiwanisClubAtlanta@gmail.com  or bill to member account.

Registration is Free for Regular and Corporate Members.

Associate, Satellite, Emeritus and Honorary Members who make a reservation by Thursday, Noon, prior to the luncheon, will receive a $5 discount.

Parking Fee is $1.50.  Please park in the parking deck adjacent to the Loudermilk Center.  If you don’t have a parking card, bring your parking ticket inside to receive a validation.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON.  Registration closes THURSDAY, January 7 at Noon.

To View on Zoom:  Click Here.

Nick Zeller is a senior program associate and lead researcher for The Carter Center's China Focus initiative. In additional to leading China Pulse, a twice annual survey of Chinese public opinion conducted with Emory University, he is editor of the English-language U.S.-China Perception Monitor blog and newsletter. Prior to joining The Carter Center, Nick was a Visiting Assistant Professor of World History in Kennesaw State University’s Department of History and Philosophy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History in the University of South Carolina’s Department of History, and an NSEP Boren Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Marilyn Smith is the David S. Lewis Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Georgia Tech Army/Navy/NASA Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence. Her research encompasses computational unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelasticity for complex configurations, including rotorcraft. 

In 2022, Smith presented the Vertical Flight Society Nikolsky Award Lecture honoring a lifetime achievement of research and development in Vertical Flight. She is also the recipient of the 2022 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Applied Aerodynamics Award, and the 61st Royal Aeronautical Society Lanchester Memorial Lecture in 2023.  She recently delivered the joint American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and National Academy of Engineering 2026 Yvonne C Brill lecture in Aerospace Engineering.

Smith is both a Technical and Honorary Fellow of the Vertical Flight Society, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She is a Vertical Flight Society Technical Director Emeritus, and member emeritus of the Board of Directors for the Vertical Flight Society and the Vertical Lift Consortium.