May 24 (Wednesday) 2023, 11:30 am to 1:15 pm
Luncheon Event at the Solomon Ortiz Convention Center

Leslie Ruta is the Director of Planning at Port Corpus Christi. She joined the PCCA Accounting Department in 2015 as the Staff Accountant and was promoted to Revenue Accountant where she led the Revenue Team before moving to Planning in 2018.

Leslie and the Planning team lead organizational planning efforts and provide internal Port clients with strategic project coordination (including infrastructure planning, enterprise asset management, and grants management), market and operational data analysis, land-use analysis, geographic information system (GIS) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services.

Some of Leslie’s current projects include coordinating the Horizons Clean Hydrogen Hub application and overseeing the execution of two CarbonSAFE grants for onshore and offshore storage.

Please reserve your tickets by 5pm, Monday, May 22, 2023 . We need to give the headcount to the catering staff in advance! For ticket and membership information please visit our website:  www.worldaffairstexas.com.  There will be a limited number of tickets available at the door if you contact us on the email ID that appears below the day before the event. For more information, please contact: Dr. Anantha Babbili, WACST CEO & President, at 361.563.5177 or ananthasbabbili@yahoo.com.

THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SOUTH TEXAS STRIVES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH TEXAS AND CORPUS CHRISTI BY INFORMING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE AMERICAN ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, TRADE, AND ECONOMICS. THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION PROMOTES CITIZEN DIPLOMACY AND HOSTS FOREIGN VISITORS SPONSORED BY THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT TO FOSTER GOODWILL AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

COME JOIN US FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY CONVERSATION AT THE LUNCHEON — COURTESY OF THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SOUTH TEXAS!!!!