March 21, 2023 | Success Stories
Empowering Others Drives Management Professor
When Jeff Yergler earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in theology, he might not have imagined that his career path...
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March 4, 2023 | Success Stories
Fellowship Helps GGU Couple Realize Career Dreams
Kaitey Vasquez and Craig Elliott, MS Project Management ’21, never planned on earning a degree in Project Management, much less...
March 4, 2023 | Success Stories
Scholarship Recipient Aspires to Drive Social Impact
Annual Fund Scholarship Recipient and first-generation student Ada Mbogu has always embraced a passion for service. Ada was born and...
January 26, 2023 | Success Stories
Alumnus Joaquin Wallace Helps Black Communities Build Wealth
When Dr. Joaquin Wallace was growing up in Oakland, California with his parents—Emanuel, a laborer, and Dorothy Ann, a restaurant...
November 9, 2022 | Success Stories
Data Analytics Grad Soars to Success
Undergraduate Student Award Winner Andres Quintero, BS Data Analytics ‘21, first enrolled at GGU because he was working right across...
November 9, 2022 | Success Stories
Phanstiel Fellowship Opens Doors for Accounting Grad
When Serena Yeh first attended college at San Francisco State University, she was a young immigrant from Taiwan navigating English...
September 30, 2022 | Success Stories
GGU Tax Alum Takes a Star Turn
Francis Custodio was working as a Certified Public Accountant at Devereaux, Kuhner, and Co. LLP when he decided to pursue...
September 23, 2022 | Success Stories
Scholarship Recipient Overcomes Setbacks to Aim High at GGU Law
GGU Law student Justin Reyes, recipient of the Joseph and Ruth Zukor Memorial Scholarship, always had a passion for law....
November 22, 2021 | Success Stories
Passion for Social Justice Fuels Law Student’s Success
Growing up in an underserved Black and Latinx community in south Los Angeles, first-year law student Leslie Estrada Flynn didn’t...
September 21, 2021 | Success Stories
Data Analytics Grad Launches New Career
Brian Roepke, BSDA 21, came to GGU after a successful 25-year career as a business unit leader and product manager....
August 13, 2021 | Success Stories
GGU Instructor Named to InvestmentNews’ 40 Under 40 List
When Tan Phan was five years old, he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister. Growing up,...
July 27, 2021 | Success Stories
International Student Wins Outstanding Student Award in Business Analytics
After working as a marketing analyst in India for six years, Deepika Khemani decided to come to GGU to enhance...
February 24, 2021 | Success Stories
Law Alum Drives Transformative Social Change
Gregory Hodge, JD ’85, always knew that he wanted to serve others. His childhood in Pine Bluff, Arkansas straddled the...
January 28, 2021 | Success Stories
Management Undergrad Wins Outstanding Student Award
LJ Mizzi was working for the Managed Markets Department at Gilead Sciences in a marketing role when she decided she...
November 13, 2020 | Success Stories
Military Family Attends GGU Together
When John and Vicky Johnson retired from the Air Force Reserves in their 50s, the couple wanted to use the...
October 27, 2020 | Success Stories
Deaf Graduate Pushes For Workplace Accessibility
Dorothea Tolliver came to GGU to pursue her passion: advocating for individuals like herself who are deaf. She believed that...
July 28, 2020 | Success Stories
Helping Others Grow Inspires I/O Psychology Grad
Priscilla Castro, a marketing manager for a construction engineering firm, came to GGU to pursue a professional interest that emerged...
July 21, 2020 | Success Stories
Alum Tackles Social Problems With Public Policy
Kerry Jackson, EMPA 2012, was one of the first African-American hires at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department to rise to...
July 16, 2020 | Success Stories
Grad Uses Counseling Skills to Help Organizations Lead and Change
Nadia Kwalick Evans earned not one but two master’s degrees from GGU, in Counseling Psychology and in Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology....
July 13, 2020 | Success Stories
Financial Planning Grad Seizes Passion for Teaching
When Virginia was a kid, she dreamed of becoming a teacher. However, growing up in a family that lacked financial...
June 27, 2020 | Success Stories
Marketing Grad Turns Opportunities Into Action
Irene Renaldy came to GGU from Jakarta, Indonesia to enroll in the MS in Integrated Marketing Communications program. For three...
June 22, 2020 | Success Stories
From Italy to San Francisco, Graduate Embraces the Unknown
It may not have happened that quickly, but Lorena De Benedittis’ leap from design to project management shows the power...
June 5, 2020 | Success Stories
From Big Four to High Tech, Tax Alum Blazes Trails
Robert Patterson, MST 2004, has enjoyed a storied career as a tax practitioner. Currently, he serves as a Microsoft director,...
June 1, 2020 | Success Stories
Military Service Sparks Alumna’s Career
When Rachel McGuffin joined the Air Force right out of high school, she had no idea how much her life...
May 19, 2020 | Success Stories
EMBA Grad Soars to Business Success
Beau Crowley loves to build things, whether it’s a new division at work, a new team, or the success of...
May 8, 2020 | Success Stories
Grad Pursues Passion for Data and Psychology
Lynn Zhang came to GGU from China for an accounting degree but switched to business analytics when she realized that...
May 6, 2020 | Success Stories
Accounting Grad Turns Obstacles Into Opportunities
Sahibnoor Singh has encountered his fair share of professional challenges. Through hard work and perseverance, he’s overcome them one by...
February 14, 2020 | Success Stories
GGU Couple Shares Love, Work, and Business School
Shared experiences can bind couples together, and for Nicole and Jordan Bosworth, that includes being students at GGU. As classmates...
January 28, 2020 | Success Stories
High Tech Internship Pays Off for Mongolian Student
In Mongolia, Enkhbold Dashdondog’s IT career took him into the rapid-paced banking, financial, retail, and energy worlds. He loved his...
December 17, 2019 | Success Stories
Alum Uses Data to Impact Housing Crisis
When he isn’t spending time with his family, Kearey Smith dedicates himself to his other passions: photography and his Rottweilers....
December 3, 2019 | Success Stories
MBA Student Seizes Opportunities and Inspiration
Jorge Escobar plays competitive tennis, reads historical novels, and hits the trails with his road bike. But his proudest accomplishment...
November 25, 2019 | Success Stories
Leadership Student Puts Management Theory Into Practice
Christine York, Principal Process Excellence and Program Manager at a San Francisco biotech company, wanted to pursue an MBA but...
November 24, 2019 | Success Stories
Vet Translates Skill Set to Business World
As an adventurous boy, Simon Lee once scaled a tree, descended a neighboring Oak, and taught the neighborhood kids to...
November 24, 2019 | Success Stories
New Dean Expands Offerings in Taxation and LLM Programs
After Amy McLellan (JD, LLM) graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in Sociology, she went to work helping homeless...
November 23, 2019 | Success Stories
Creativity and Problem-Solving Combine in Project Management Career
Lecturer and Project Management program director Marie Spark loves preparing students for an industry experiencing surging growth. By 2020, it’s...
November 23, 2019 | Success Stories
Alumna Uses MPA and JD Degrees to Serve the Public Good
In 1993, Master’s of Public Administration graduate Bernadette Curry was putting her GGU degree to good use, working for SCI...
November 23, 2019 | Success Stories
Alumna’s Passion for Service Drives Meaningful Career
The commitment to public interest law first attracted Neha Shah to Golden Gate University. But the supportive environment—amid challenging personal...
