Your Alumni Board
Members of the board are elected by the alumni and meet throughout the year to establish, in collaboration with the dean and UC San Diego Alumni, the goals and objectives for the school. The board assists the staff in the implementation of programs for more than 3,000 alumni worldwide annually.
Alumni Board President Message
Dear Fellow GPS Alumni,
I hope you and your families are well. I am honored to serve as your Alumni Board president for the 2022-2023 academic year. I would like to thank Jessica Megill '10, our outgoing president, for her superb leadership, especially during the height of the pandemic. I am joined by Peter Moritzburke as vice president and Gwendolyn Guzman Rose returning as secretary. Together we represent your leadership team.
I would like to thank outgoing board members – Helio Bertachini ’09, Dennis-Michael Broussard '08, Ziwen Han ’15, Greta Paa-Kerner ’96, Jamal Russell Black '16 and Victor Tineo ’11 – for their service.
This is a strategically important year for GPS. There are three key areas on which your alumni board will focus:
- Strategic Plan: the new plan will capture Dean Freund’s vision, mission, key milestones and objectives for the school. It is currently under development and we expect it to be published in the coming months. What we do know is that our alumni activities will be an important component of the strategy, and we are excited to explore ways to align our efforts in support of the strategic plan once released.
- Board Reconstitution: this summer marked the departures of several of our long-serving board members. Thank you for your service! Strengthening the board will be important in order to have capacity to support the strategic plan. We will nominate new board members while considering ways that allow alumni to contribute in specialized areas based on their expertise. If you or someone you know may be interested in service on or to the board, please reach out.
- Campus Presence: with the majority of classes and campus activities returning in-person, we hope to align alumni events accordingly in a safe manner. With a more permissive degree of travel in most parts of the world, we hope to see many of our alumni back on campus for milestone events such as homecoming this October.
I would like to reemphasize the many online tools available for increased alumni engagement with GPS and UC San Diego. We encourage all GPS alumni to sign up to receive the school newsletter, take advantage of the Triton Table Talks career development series, join virtual events put on by the many affiliated with GPS, consider UC San Diego Extension courses, and join the GPS LinkedIn group and UC San Diego’s Tritons Connect to remain aware of the many ways we can continue to serve you long after graduation.
The alumni board is here to represent you and keep you connected with GPS. Please feel free to contact me if you have any ideas or recommendations on how we can better serve our alumni community.
Sincerely,
Jason Kim, MAS-IA ’12
GPS Alumni Board President