Citizen of the Year Award Winner Salutes Community

by Robin Loving

“This work has never really been about water,” said 2025 Citizen of the Year Award Honoree Dylan Terrell, founder and executive director of Caminos de Agua. “It’s about community. I arrived in San Miguel (with) no intention of working in water. But … it became very clear, very quickly, that water was the issue,” he continued.
 
Terrell went on to say that solutions do not come from outsiders but from communities understanding their challenges, organizing, and taking ownership of solutions. As well, he credited his family for giving him the ability to believe that what matters most is making a meaningful impact. He closed with, “Come together around a shared problem and refuse to just accept that things have to stay the way they are.”
 
This was the 19th Citizen of the Year ceremony sponsored by the Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende-Midday. Mark Hager and Vice President of Club Services Robin Loving coordinated the event with the assistance of Emcee Joe Ruffino, President Andrea Spessard, Alex and Kerry Fautsch, Gael Sherman, Co-Sergeants of Arms Carla Espinoza and Elizabeth Adlung, David Miller, Tech Wizard Diego Vargas, Beverly Hill, Co-Vice Presidents of Membership Joyce Grenis and Kathy Zapata, Secretary Phillip Jares, David Bossman, President-elect Jose de Anda, Donn Zellet, Pat Laird, Enrique Orvananos, and various other volunteers.
 
For more information, contact President Andrea Spessard at [email protected] and/or Robin Loving at [email protected].

Video of the Award Ceremony

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