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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 [...]

2021–2022 Counseling Psychology Community Webinar Series Returns As we deepen into the new academic year, we are excited to announce that we will be bringing back the Counseling Psychology [...]

FoodBank Earns the 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Community Award Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association is honored to name FoodBank of Santa Barbara County as the recipient of the 2021 [...]

Persephone’s Garden: A Tribute to Dr. Christine Downing Dr. Christine Downing has guided countless students to the sacred groves of the goddess within. For many, it has been a journey of [...]