Just one month into our new Kiwanis year and we’re excited to welcome Nia Delmast as the newest member of the club! Nia first reached out to us by finding our club online. She is a recent graduate of St. Edward’s University where  she served as a member and vice president of the Circle K Chapter. My service interests include education and environmental sustainability. In her free time she enjoys yoga and swing dancing. 

Giovanna Alanis-Vega, best known as Gio, is our newest member of our Kiwanis Club. Gio was born and raised in Matamoros, Mexico-Brownsville, Texas. Gio moved to Austin in 2010 to attend The University of Texas at Austin, where she received her Bachelor’s of Science in Athletic Training. Currently, Gio is pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration from Concordia University- Texas. She also works at UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.

While enrolled at UT Austin, Gio was a member of Texas CKI from 2010-14. She also serviced as Chapter Treasurer from 2012-2013, Texas-Oklahoma District Treasurer in 2013-2014 and was part of the CKI Large Scale Service Project  Fellowship Committee in 2013-14.

We’re thrilled to welcome her into our club!

Alan is businessman here in Austin since moving here twenty-four years ago from Boulder, Colorado where he owned an art gallery for twelve years. He currently runs a retail store on South Congress and a small metal fabrication shop up in Jollyville. He’s also worked as a professional musician for the last forty years and originally moved to Austin to work together with a group of musicians with whom he still performs.

Alan was raised to believe that it is one’s duty to help those unable to help themselves. He’s volunteered for a variety of benevolence organizations for the last thirty years, including the Big Brothers Big Sisters and Boulder County AIDS Project in Colorado; and AIDS Services of Austin, Project Transitions, and the Octopus Club here in Austin. Through his membership in University Baptist Church, he’s helped feed and shelter the homeless youth that live on the streets around the university.

We love Alan’s diverse background of service and volunteerism, and we’re looking forward to the great things he’ll contribute to our community as a Kiwanian!

Marcelo Urieta-Bravo is an alumnus of our sponsored service leadership program CKI at Austin Community College. While enrolled at ACC, he served as chapter president from 2012-13, distinguished lieutenant governor in 2013-14 for the Texas-Oklahoma District, and distinguished governor for the Texas-Oklahoma District in 2014-15. He graduated from St. Edward’s University in 2016 and helped to re-establish the CKI chapter on campus. Throughout his time in CKI, Marcelo held numerous roles on Circle K International committees.

Marcelo now serves as an assistant district administrator to the Texas-Oklahoma District of CKI, and he specializes in advising the district’s nine lieutenant governors. He’s looking forward to giving back to CKI as Kiwanian and giving developing young leaders the same opportunities he had as a member of CKI.

Braderick Morrison is a born and raised Hoosier who just recently moved to Texas. Brad received his Bachelor’s of Science in Sociology from Ball State University. After graduation, Brad moved to Indianapolis, IN to begin a career in the sales industry. After two years, he decided to move to Texas to further his career opportunities and soak up the Texas heat. Brad moved to Austin at the beginning of the year and started working at Main Street Hub, a social media marketing company located in downtown Austin. Brad has been involved in the K-Family since the start of his college career. He has served as president of his home club at Ball State and on the Indiana District Board as Membership Retention Specialist. His favorite service events have been working with children at after school programs in his college town of Muncie, IN. His hobbies include photography, refurbishing old furniture, and of course, volunteering. 

We’re so glad to have Brad as the newest member of our club and excited that he’s continuing his K-Family journey with us!

Maria Harper and Chris Varney were formally inducted into our club on Friday evening. They were sponsored by Raymond Miller.

Maria grew up in the metro-Detroit area where she was involved with the Michigan District Key Club serving as a Lt. Governor and District Bulletin Editor. She then went to the University of Missouri for her undergraduate degree in Journalism and German where she was involved with CKI at the club level. Most recently, though, she moved to Austin from Boston where she’s now working at a small digital advertising agency and getting re-introduced to the Kiwanis family! She has a passion for community impact, specifically involving education of underserved areas. Through the Kiwanis Club of Austin-Northeast she hopes to be able to bridge some of the gaps in the community to provide equal chances for all kids.

Chris moved to Austin from Boston in the summer of 2017. He’s from central Illinois and went to school in Missouri and is currently working in marketing. He is looking forward to spending a lot of time outside in the state parks around Austin as he discovers Texas. He has a particular interest service projects that address nutrition and food security, and is looking forward to getting involved in any way that he can.

We’re very excited to welcome them to our club and we value their ideas and the skills that they bring to the club as we work together to improve our community.