NONPROFIT & SMALL BUSINESS TRAININGS

Extension to provide leadership development training to high school and college students as well as community organizations around the greater San Diego community.

She was one of three co-founders of Social Kitchen, a 2016 University of San Diego (USD) Social Innovation Challenge winner. She has worked in areas such as student activities, student governance, test prep, design thinking, strategic planning, and organizational consulting.

Grace has served on regional and national boards and committees through NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and co-authored two chapters on social media and professional networking in the NASPA monograph Beginning Your Journey. She also serves as a NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program (NUFP) mentor and currently chairs the NUFP program at UCSD.

After earning her BA in psychology with a minor in family studies and a master’s in educational administration with an emphasis in higher education from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, Grace completed her PhD in leadership studies at USD with her dissertation on “Career decision-making of higher education professionals of Philippine descent: The untold stories of an Asian Pacific Islander community”.

clinical nursing professor at the University of San Diego.

Her interests lie in the social determinants of health and resulting inherent health disparities in BIPOC communities. The current COVID pandemic of paramount interest from both a virologic and epidemiological perspective as it intersects with the disproportionate impact upon communities of color as well as how it intersects with the epidemic of opioid abuse in the US. 

Dotti has a BS from UC Irvine in biological sciences, attended UCLA to attain her BS in nursing and Master of Public Health in Epidemiology, and received her doctorate in education from the University of Southern California.

numerous hardships that were amplified by the fixed mindsets of her peers and values incongruent to her aspirations.

However, Ericka knew she didn’t have to settle for the vision other people had for her life. She searched out her own meaning, began transforming her own beliefs, and challenged the way she thought about obstacles so she would have the mindset and tools needed to overcome them.

Ericka graduated college and went on to earn a master’s degree in education from CSU Northridge and a doctorate in higher education from Azusa Pacific University. She founded Launching Legacies in 2015 to help others discover potential in their own lives and help them work towards creating meaningful and attainable legacies.

to educate nonprofit and for-profit organizations on how to design and launch solution-driven business development practices.

Natache holds a BA in management from Columbia Union College and an MS in nonprofit management from Eastern University.

and change efforts, children’s services, and workforce development.

She has served as a trainer for community organizations and as a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at San Diego City College where she established certificate programs to address the demand for a diverse workforce in the Health and Human Services fields. More recently, she has served as a consultant for the Student Health Center at San Francisco City College.

Veronica received a PhD in clinical psychology with an emphasis in developmental psychology from UCLA. She has been a practicing clinical psychologist serving children, adolescents, and families and held a position as a clinical professor in pediatrics at the Medical School of UC San Diego. She has served on numerous state and local coalitions, commissions, and boards of directors that serve children, youth, and families. This commitment to community service and leadership lead to receiving an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.