• 11:30 a.m. – Networking
• 11:45 a.m. — Lunch and program
• 1:00 p.m. – Program ends

Our speaker, Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein, has been with the Peter Kiewit Foundation since 1983, serving first as Associate Director before being named Executive Director in 1986. The Peter Kiewit Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in Nebraska. It has distributed more than $553 million since its inception in 1980.

A fifth-generation Omahan, Lyn is an attorney. She has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for Nebraska and has practiced privately. She is admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia and Nebraska. Her undergraduate degree is in Journalism from the University of Kansas and she earned her law degree at Creighton University where she was on the Law Review.

Lyn’s current community involvement includes service on several boards and commissions. Her past service includes Nebraska Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee for five years; Federal Reserve Bank/Omaha Branch, five years, the last (2010) as chair; several gubernatorial appointments; a White House Commission on Educational Excellence; the board of the Council on Foundations; the boards of Norwest Bank Nebraska and Alltel Communications; the Higher Learning Commission in Chicago; many statewide and local boards and commissions; her church board and PTA. Lyn was inducted to the Omaha Business Hall of Fame in 2011.