This week: January 16, 2026 - Arianna Ross & Kellie Butsack  - Story Tapestries
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January 16: Arianna Ross & Kellie Butsack  - Story Tapestries
January 23: NBRC  - TBA
January 30: NBRC - TBA (Zoom only)

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(New location)

Sabine Farrar

January 26th

Sabrine is a Physical Education and Geography teacher. For the past ten years. She has taught Physical Education (K-8) at a private school outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. She was
born and raised in Germany and moved to the States in 2002 with her husband. On her first pilgrimage along the St. Olav Way in 2014, she fell in love with the pilgrim path and Norway. She was taken by the nature, culture, traditions, and the warm hospitality of the Norwegians –and, of course, with walking a pilgrimage. Ever since that first pilgrimage, my passion for the St. Olav Way, for pilgrimages, and for Norway has grown stronger. Since 2014, She have walked several pilgrimages on the St. Olav Way, and walked the entire Gundbrandsdalen path from Oslo to Trondheim twice.  Sabrine also have guided and co-guided groups twice on different stretches of the St. Olav Way.


Kathy Stevens, Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy

January 19th

Kathy Stevens is executive director of the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy (MCAEL), a nonprofit organization that supports literacy to promote healthy communities. Based in Rockville, Md. and incorporated in 2006 with the support of county leaders, MCAEL works with 60 literacy service providers that offer instruction at low cost or free to the more than 132,000 limited-English proficient and native English-speaking residents in the county.
She has devoted her career and volunteer work to higher education and nonprofits and most recently worked at Montgomery College as annual fund director. She has also worked as a senior executive at an international, nonprofit membership organization and as an employment lawyer. She is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery and Impact Silver Spring’s Community and Empowerment Program.


Marilyn Balcombe – Committee for Montgomery Chair

January 12th

Marilyn Balcombe, President/CEO, Gaithersburg Germantown Chamber of Commerce, Committee for Montgomery Chair
Committee for Montgomery is a broad coalition of community leaders that advocates to the Maryland State Government for Montgomery County’s needs through collective action.