U.S. Rotarian Chosen to be RI President in 2024-25

 

Stephanie A. Urchick, a member of the Rotary Club of McMurray, Pennsylvania, has been selected by the RI Nominating Committee to be President of Rotary International in 2024-25. She will be the second woman to serve as RI President, after Jennifer Jones, this year’s president.

A Rotary member since 1991, Urchick has traveled to Vietnam to help build a primary school and to the Dominican Republic to install water filters. She studies several Slavic languages, has mentored new Rotarians in Ukraine, and coordinated a Rotary Foundation grant project in Poland.

Urchick is partner and chief operating officer of Doctors at Work LLC, a consulting and training company. She holds a doctorate in leadership studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has served as an RI director and Foundation trustee and as chair of the RI Strategic Planning Committee and the Foundation’s Centennial Celebration Committee.

She will be declared the president-nominee on October 1 if no challenging candidates are suggested.