Ryla Students are visiting our club
Help us give a warm welcome to this year’s RYLA students. In February they took part in the RYLA leadership gathering, and this morning they’re joining us to share what they learned and how the experience has shaped them. We’re delighted to have them with us.

Dhardon Sharlin – Where Mind and Media Meet Moral Futures
Dhardon Sharling is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist with more than 20 years of experience in public advocacy communication, democracy promotion, and advancing gender, social and climate justice. She serves as a Lecturer in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned her PhD in Communication and a Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies. Her research examines how human communication practices – especially those shaped by emerging media – advance social change, with particular attention to gender and climate justice. Drawing on intersections among communication studies, new media, critical feminist theory, cultural anthropology, and lived experience, Dhardon seeks to generate knowledge that challenges and intervenes in systemic structures of power and injustice.

Dhardon’s career spans leadership roles, including Information Secretary of the Central Tibetan Administration and elected Member of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile. She has also served as a Non-Resident Scholar at the Milton Eisenhower Foundation, co-leading a book project on democracy in exile. In addition, she has taught at Hampshire College and Syracuse University, contributed extensively to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Anthropology of Consciousness. Dhardon is the founder of TenDrel Initative – Where Mind and Media Meet Moral Futures.

Bart Marcois is a career diplomat with deep and broad experience in highly regulated economic sectors. After the Foreign Service he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy. During the first Trump Administration he led a team at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to achieve a key White House policy, streamlining the permitting process for very large infrastructure projects.

He has worked in the European defense and energy sectors, opening markets for American products and systems. As an official in the Republican Party of Virginia, he has worked on each of President Trump’s campaigns since 2016.

We are reopening the discussion of the Bylaws, as we experienced technical difficulties during the Club Assembly on March 26th.
Please make sure to join us virtually this morning.