BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Rotary Club recently inducted Dummerston resident Carla Lineback as its 70th club president for the 2019-2020 year. Lineback is director of alumni engagement for World Learning/SIT.
Rotary club members serving as officers with Lineback this year are President-Elect Carl Lynde, Secretary Regina Stefanelli, Treasurer Rhonda Calhoun, Vice President Marty Cohn, and Immediate Past President Bill Vermouth.
Lineback was first involved with Rotary International in 2004 when she was named a Rotary World Peace Fellow and attended International Christian University in Japan. She earned a master's degree in peace and conflict resolution from its school of public administration.
As a Peace Fellow, she participated in dialogue programs in Jordan, Syria, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories and she attended a month-long training in mediation and conflict resolution in Cyprus.
She returned to the Brattleboro area in 2007 and joined the Brattleboro Rotary Club in 2012, quickly joining the club's board serving as chair of the International Avenue of Service.
With a strong interest in youth peace education, Lineback co-founded NewGen Peacebuilders, a peace education curriculum for students ages 14-24.
She has served on the board of Morningside Shelter and served as its first board president as Groundworks Collaborative.
Lineback is a graduate of Brattleboro Union High School and lives with her husband, Eric, and their five-year-old daughter, Alina.