Past District Governor and long-time member of the Rotary Club of Glendale, Makiko Nakasone will give us an update on the 2024 Humanitarian Trip to Ecuador, where six Global Grant Projects were implemented and $40,000 direct cash donations were granted to projects. In all a total of about $400,000 worth of service projects!

Makiko Nakasone was born and raised at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan and has been a very active Rotarian since 2004. She is a proud member of the Glendale Noon Rotary Club. Makiko is honored and proud to be the first Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to serve as District Governor. With the scholarship, she studied at the Albert Rudvigs Universitaet, Freiburg, in Germany in 1982-83. District Governor Makiko is a journalist by profession and she has worked as an editor for Readers Digest Japan and was a staff writer at the world’s largest financial newspaper, Nikkei, both at its headquarters in Tokyo and at LA bureau. Currently, she is the owner of Miken Education, an educational services/consulting company. As a Rotarian, DG Makiko’s passions have been Rotary’s Peace Initiatives, and New Club Development.