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June NESA Luncheon Featuring 2003 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Peter Agre!

June 2, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

Calling all Eagles to an extraordinary NESA Luncheon! Join us on Thursday, June 9th, 2022, via zoom to hear from the 2003 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Peter Agre! Register here at, ncacbsa.org/nesa-lunches/.

Did you know that one of the fundamental processes of life is the transportation of water molecules through the surface layer of the cells that comprise organisms? Channels that allow the passage of water but not other substances are crucial for processes such as the kidney’s capacity to recover water from urine. For a long time, no one knew what these water canals looked like, but in 1990 Peter Agre succeeded in isolating a protein that he proved was the sought-after water canal. This protein is known as Aquaporin.

Today, Agre now focuses his attention on combatting malaria in the laboratory and in the field, where he oversees efforts in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Although the lunches are free, please consider making a donation to Scouting at www.ncacbsa.org/give to help support our luncheons as well as the great Scouting experience. Who knows—you might be helping a future luncheon speaker write their story!

And if you or someone you know are interested in being a guest speaker at one of our lunches, or you have a suggestion or idea, please contact us at NESADC@NCACBSA.org.

For updates and registration on upcoming networking luncheons, follow us on Facebook, add us on LinkedIn, or check out our schedule on the National Capital Area Council’s Calendar of Events.

 

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Meet 2022 NOESA Honoree David Scott

March 10, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

David J. Scott serves as a Deputy Assistant Director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division and as Director of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force. In those roles, he has oversight of the FBI’s operational programs targeting sophisticated cyber threats from criminal and nation-state actors.

Mr. Scott entered on duty with the FBI in 2003 and was initially assigned to the Louisville Field Office, working a variety of criminal matters and serving as a member of the SWAT team. In 2006, Mr. Scott transferred to the Washington Field Office, where he investigated organized crime, counterterrorism, public corruption, and white-collar crime matters. Mr. Scott was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent within the FBI’s International Terrorism Operations Section in 2012, and in 2014 was promoted to Unit Chief of the International Terrorism Operations Section’s CONUS 1, where he provided program management for all International Terrorism investigations in the Northeastern United States. In 2016, Mr. Scott was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI Washington Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

In 2018, Mr. Scott was selected as Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Washington Field Office Counterterrorism Division, overseeing International Terrorism threats to the National Capitol Region. In March 2020, Mr. Scott was promoted to the Senior Executive Service as the Section Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, where he was responsible for oversight of the FBI’s Public Corruption, International Corruption, Civil Rights, and International Human Rights programs.

Mr. Scott earned a Bachelor of Business Administration as a Distinguished Military Graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master’s in Administration of Justice from the University of Louisville. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Scott was an Infantry officer in the United States Army and a graduate of the US Army Ranger School. Mr. Scott earned his Eagle Scout in 1990 as a member of Troop 233 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and served as the Cubmaster of Pack 998 in Leesburg, Virginia.

Congratulations to David and his fellow 2022 NOESA Honorees! Please join us on March 23, 2022 at Army Navy Country Club for a celebration honoring the 2022 NOESA recipients. For more information visit, www.ncacbsa.org/noesa/.

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Meet 2022 NOESA Honoree Matthew Jones

March 3, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

Matt Jones earned his Eagle in the National Capital Area Council in 1990 when he was a member of Troop 654 based in Mt. Vernon, VA.

Matt currently serves as an owner, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Leading Authorities, Inc. (“LAI”) a privately held company in Washington, DC that represents notable figures for speaking and literary representation, helps organizations design and produce events, and works with companies in need of creative video production. Jones joined the firm in 1997 and has overseen the firm’s growth to more than 10x its size in his tenure. Today, LAI is one of the top companies of its kind in the industry, employing almost 100 people and managing to succeed throughout the last few years despite the decline of in-person events.

Matt exemplifies the spirit and commitment of an Eagle Scout, not only as a successful businessperson, but as someone who supports and gives back to the community and assists those less fortunate and in need.

While enjoying success as a company, Matt and LAI have also supported the National Capital Area Council for over 10 years by helping to produce fundraising events, donating services, and producing videos highlighting scouting achievements in the region.

In addition to supporting the Boy Scouts of America, Matt and LAI have actively supported MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, SOME – So Others Might Eat, the Alzheimer’s Association, Bright Beginnings, SEALKIDS, Little League Baseball and many other local charities through fundraising, event production, and video production.

Congratulations to Matt and his fellow 2022 NOESA Honorees! Please join us on March 23, 2022 at Army Navy Country Club for a celebration honoring the 2022 NOESA recipients. For more information visit, www.ncacbsa.org/noesa/.

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Meet 2022 NOESA Honoree Charles Lewis

February 28, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

Charles Lewis is a professor of journalism at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and the founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop. He has been a Ferris Professor at Princeton University, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Lewis, a former ABC News and CBS News “60 Minutes” producer, founded two Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit news organizations, the award-winning, nonprofit Center for Public Integrity (1989) and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (1997), the first global network of premier investigative reporters to develop and publish online multimedia exposés across borders. The ICIJ published the Panama Papers — the largest collaboration in the history of journalism, involving a leaked cache of 11.5 million financial records, analyzed and reported by more than 370 journalists in 76 countries and published in over 100 newspapers around the world.

Lewis is the author of “935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity” (2014), and co-author of five Center books: “The Buying of the President” (1996), “The Buying of the Congress” (1998), “The Buying of the President” (2000), “The Cheating of America” (2001), and “The Buying of the President” (2004), a New York Times bestseller.

Lewis was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, and in 2004, he was given the PEN USA First Amendment award “for expanding the reach of investigative journalism, for his courage in going after a story regardless of whose toes he steps on, and for boldly exercising his freedom of speech and freedom of the press.” In 2009, the Encyclopedia of Journalism called him “one of the 30 most notable investigative reporters in the U.S. since World War I.” In 2014, the Wall Street Journal observed, “With the founding of the Center for Public Integrity in the 1980s, Charles Lewis probably did more than anyone else to launch institutional nonprofit journalism in America.”

In 2018, he was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

Congratulations to Charles and his fellow 2022 NOESA Honorees! Please join us on March 23, 2022 at Army Navy Country Club for a celebration honoring the 2022 NOESA recipients. For more information visit, www.ncacbsa.org/noesa/.

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Meet 2022 NOESA Honoree Jamie Morin

February 23, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

Jamie M. Morin is vice president of Defense Systems Operations in the Defense Systems Group at The Aerospace Corporation. He leads Aerospace’s technical support to the senior-most levels of the Department of Defense and Department of the Air Force. Morin also is executive director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, which provides objective analysis and comprehensive research to ensure well-informed, technically defensible, and forward-looking space policy across the civil, military, intelligence, and commercial space sectors.

In that role, he has published research in outlets including Nature, Defense One, Defense News, and the Journal of Space Safety Engineering. He also speaks widely and orchestrates the Center’s extensive series of publications, events, and multimedia products to shape the future of the U.S. space enterprise.

Prior to joining Aerospace, Morin served as director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) for the Department of Defense, where he led the organization responsible for analyzing and evaluating the department’s plans, programs, and budgets in relation to U.S. defense objectives, threats, estimated costs, and resource constraints.

Before his appointment as director of CAPE, Morin served for five years as the assistant secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller). He also served for a year as acting under secretary of the Air Force, where he led the Air Force Space Board and the Air Force Council.

Before moving to the Pentagon, Morin was lead analyst for defense, intelligence, and foreign affairs on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget.

In addition to his role at Aerospace, Morin is an adjunct professor of international relations at Georgetown University.

In scouting Mr. Morin was a former Den Leader in Pack 98 of Washington DC (while also serving as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force!) and is currently an Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 98 as well as an Assistant Cubmaster in Pack 454 in the Baltimore Area Council.

Congratulations to Jamie and his fellow 2022 NOESA Honorees! Please join us on March 23, 2022 at Army Navy Country Club for a celebration honoring the 2022 NOESA recipients. For more information visit, ncacbsa.org/noesa.

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Meet 2022 NOESA Honoree Thomas Brooke

February 17, 2022 by The Scouter Digest Staff

Thomas W. Brooke protects intellectual property rights for a wide variety of clients located all over the world, ranging from large and small corporations, associations and trade groups to entrepreneurial individuals. His work ranges from initial counseling and trademark selection, copyright and trademark registration around the world, licensing and technology transfers to intellectual property litigation throughout the United States and in every major country. Related matters include drafting and interpreting agreements relating to ownership and use of names, images, photographs, software, trade secrets, music and other intellectual property. Martindale-Hubbell rates Mr. Brooke as an AV Preeminent Peer Reviewed lawyer. Other honors include yearly listings in Who’s Who Legal and Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers magazine.

Mr. Brooke ranks among the most prolific filers of U.S. trademark applications, and has strong relationships within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In 2016, the International Trademark Association (INTA) asked him to serve a two-year stint as chair of the association’s U.S. Trademark Office Practices Committee, working directly with the U.S. Commissioner of Trademarks and other top-level staff at the USPTO. He previously served as chair of the INTA’s U.S. Legislation Committee, where he helped craft the Federal Anti-Cyber Piracy Act and the Federal Trademark Dilution statute. He currently serves on the INTA Internet Committee, focusing on data privacy issues. Other association and volunteer work include past service as chair of the Trademark Division of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section and as a member of the Section Counsel, membership on the INTA’s North American Advisory Council, Amicus Committee and Emerging Issues Committees, as well as leadership roles with the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and the Intellectual Property Sections of the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars.

In addition to professional volunteer work, Mr. Brooke is Scoutmaster of Troop 128 in McLean, and previously served as Cubmaster of Pack 665.  He has also served on the Executive Board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  Other volunteer service include tenure on the Vestry of his Church and involvement as member and officer of a number of civic groups in Fairfax and Arlington Counties.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Brooke worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as a legislative assistant to the late Sen. John McCain and former Rep. Frank R. Wolf.

Congratulations to Thomas and his fellow 2022 NOESA Honorees! Please join us on March 23, 2022 at Army Navy Country Club for a celebration honoring the 2022 NOESA recipients. For more information visit, www.ncacbsa.org/noesa/.

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