Meet the 2024-2025 District Leadership Team

DD Christopher Hulse 2024
PQD Michelle Westgate 2024
CGD Adeoti Araba 2024
Div A Amy Culbertson 2024
Div B Michael Friedlander 2024
Div C Darcel Davenger 2024
Div D Gregory Ludwig 2024
Div E Ari Valero 2024
Div F Marie Maranki 2024
Div G Michelle Brown 2024
Div H Vidhya Krishnamoorthy 2024

Learn How YOU can Join this District 38 Leadership Team!

Gain leadership experience as an Area Director or other District 38 Officer appointed to serve during the 2024-2025 Toastmasters Year.

Prospective Area Directors
Click here for the Application Form

Other Appointed District Positions – Listed Here
Click here to Email the Incoming Top 3

Upcoming Special Events

Presence and Poise: Mindfulness Practices for Speaking Confidence - Part 1

Sunday, May 19 – 2:00pm-3:00 PM

Join us for an empowering two-part workshop, during which you’ll refine your speaking skills through mindfulness practices. Discover the power of presence and poise to captivate any audience. In this workshop, you’ll learn:

  • Mindful breathing techniques to calm nerves
  • Strategies for cultivating a presence on stage.
  • How to project confidence through body language.
  • Tools for managing speaking anxiety.
  • Mindfulness exercises to enhance vocal delivery.
Register for both sessions. The 2nd workshop is on Sunday, June 2nd. Register Here

easy-Speak Basics for VP Education

Sunday, May 19 - 7:00pm-8:00pm

Let easy-Speak Help Your Club Succeed

The easy-Speak website offers tools to help club track and manage their member’s progress through Pathways, In this session, District 38 easy-Speak Support Chair, Sheila Erespe will discuss:

  • Basics: Identify Pathway Tools in easy-Speak
  • Advanced: Under the hood – Control Panel basics for VP Education
  • Resources to easy-Speak community
  • Q & A

Become an Exceptional Speech Evaluator

Monday, May 20 – 7:00pm-9:00 PM

Sharpen your Speech Evaluator Skills

Peak Performance Advanced Club invites you to an engaging and educational workshop led by Jack Levitt, a master speech evaluator, and District 38 Speech Evaluator Contest First Place Winner.

The ability to provide a fellow member with an effective speech evaluation serves the speaker, the evaluator, and the club.

Fair, honest, and considerate evaluations are one hallmark of a successful club. Every Toastmasters wants to improve, and receiving a good evaluation is critical to member growth.

FreeToastHost Intermediate Seminar

Wednesday, May 29 - 7:00pm-8:00pm

Boost Your FreeToastHost Prowess

In this intermediate-level interactive session, Facilitator Su Brooks, DTM3, will discuss:

  • Using the site as a Member or as an Administrator
  • How to customize default messages for your new members
  • How to send emails to members who have opted into your site
  • How to Create Custom Pages
  • How to use the Admin Panel for Membership Management
  • Q&A

Club Incentive Awards

Level-Up Challenge
Members and clubs will be recognized by District 38 when completing Pathways Levels.
Open House
Clubs can earn 50 District Dollars for holding an Open House when the event is promoted and photos submitted to District 38.
100% Pathways Enrollment
Clubs will be entered into a District 38 raffle when 100% of paid members are Pathways enrolled as of specified dates.
Beat the Clock!
Add new, dual, or reinstated members between May 1 & June 30 to earn a ribbon for the club banner, and TI store discount.

District 38 Toastmasters: Be Extraordinary! Never Stop Learning.

Register for these Special Instructional Videos presented by District 38. Did you miss one? View the videos.

Lift the Contest Fog

Part 4 Recording Covers: Zoom Breakout Rooms, Google Forms & Virtual Ballot Counting, plus link to all Forms, Scripts, and Templates.

Contest Spotlight

Contest Spotlight Vaidehi Chitnis

Vaidehi Chitnis

Vaidehi Chitnis is a member and President of Princeton Toastmasters Club. Vaidehi recently secured first place in the International Speech Contest for District 38 at the District 38 Annual Conference.

District 38 Recognizes

May Club Anniversaries

75th anniversary reading toastmasters
45th anniversary princeton toastmasters
10th anniversary td toasts

April Path Completions

  • Swati Chaturvedi – Strategic Relationships
  • Kellie Dietrich – Innovative Planning
  • Carol Henning-Franczyk – Presentation Mastery
  • Amit Mathur – Dynamic Leadership
Just completed my Ice Breaker Speech!

The District Recognition Chair wants to individually recognize members who present their initial Ice Breaker speech.

2023-2024 Distinguished Toastmaster Awards

Congratulations to Meg Fosco, DTM
Congratulations to Lisa Gerelli, DTM
Anne Golden DTM badge 2023
Congratulations to Thaine Shetter, DTM
Barbara Snyderman DTM badge 2023
Paula Teachey DTM badge 2023
Congratulations to Dale Wallace, DTM

View all the 2023-2024 Member Educational Achievements

Levels 1-5