USD Magazine Spring 2020

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JIM REESE

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hen Jimmy Bried ’16 (BBA) came to the University of San W C L E A R - E Y E D V I S I O N A R Y Jimmy Br ied puts his money where his heart is by Julene Snyder

like to have other things to focus on,” he says. An inveterate go-getter, he started looking at graduate programs and com- pleted his MBA from Pepperdine University in the summer of 2019. While most of us would feel that it might be time to relax and enjoy the fruits of all that hard work, Bried felt compelled to give back so that others could have the opportuni- ties to succeed that he’s had. “When I was a student at USD, Assistant Vice President for Student Wellness Melissa Halter

humility, discipline and punctu- ality,” he recalls. “It built the foundation for me to go back to school to get a degree.” Now an enterprise account manager for Amazon Web Ser- vices in Seattle, Bried prefers life to be busy. “As a sober person, I

drawn from the University of Arizona to enter rehab. Upon emerging — with sobriety firmly in hand — he worked construc- tion and took a few classes before deciding to resume his under- graduate studies full time at USD. “Construction taught me

Diego as a transfer student in 2014 to continue his interrupted higher education, he knew he had his work cut out for him. A few years earlier, he’d with-

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