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Meet Abakanowicz Fellowship Awardee Sarah Maria Acosta Ahmad “Imagine a prairie, lush and overgrown, teeming with life, but instead of vast open space, condense the image to a small city [...]

Meet 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Pathfinder Award Recipient Howard Spector Howard Spector is Co-founder of SimplePractice and serves as a Senior Advisor to EngageSmart. Howard has over 20 years of [...]

Meet 2021 Wendy Davee Awards for Service Recipient Mary “Miles” Carroll Mary “Miles” Carroll earned her MA in Pacifica’s Counseling Psychology program in 2014 and [...]

Meet 2021 Wendy Davee Award for Service Recipient Dahkotahv Beckham While enrolled in a homeless young adult program in 2013, Dahkotahv began serving as a peer resource specialist at a local drop [...]

Meet 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence Recipient Alisa Orduña Alisa Orduña, PhD, has been a practitioner, policy analyst, collaborator and thought leader in homelessness services for [...]

Meet 2021 Walter Odajnyk Memorial Scholarship Recipient Marcene Gandolfo Marcene Gandolfo, a poet, writer, and educator, is a third-year student in Pacifica’s Mythological Studies program. Her [...]

Meet 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Service Award Recipient Roland Palencia Roland Palencia is the Community Benefits Director and corporate trainer at L.A. Care Health Plan. He is the former Executive [...]

Meet 2021 President’s Award Recipient Heesun Kim Heesun Kim, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice with a background in clinical social work and creative art. She is a Ph.D. [...]

2021 Coming Home Awards Celebration “An Evening of Hope” – Award Recipients Announced Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) is pleased to announce the recipients of [...]