USD Magazine Spring 2021

2010s

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[ 2 0 1 0 ] VERONICA GERETZ (MA) is using her degree from the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies to offer mindfulness and trauma-informed yoga to incarcerated youth and adults with the Prison Yoga Project and working with local governments to support antiracist policy with SURJ (Standing Up for Racial Justice). LAUREN KENNEDY (BS/BA) works at YouTube as a technical program manager. She and her husband, JP, love to cook with MATT LEIGH (BS/BA) recently won a Grammy for engineering work onWillie Nelson’s RideMe Back Home . This isMatt’s first Grammy win after two previous nominations withNatalie Grant. Matt, a mechanical engineering major, continues to work as a music producer inNashville, Tennessee. LISSETTE LIZÁRRAGA (BA) has planted roots by purchasing her first home in the San Francisco Bay Area and landing her dream job at Airbnb. She says her international relations major and three study abroad experi- ences at USD have paid off. ALISA SIEBER-JOHNSON (BS/ BA) says she recently left active duty service with the U.S. Marine Corps as a KC-130J pilot. She continues as CEO of a national nonprofit, Dogs on Deployment, and is enrolled in USD’s part-time MBA program with her husband, Shawn Johnson ’06 (BA). MAUREEN TRUXTON (BA) graduated with anMBA fromGeorge- town University last May. She accept- ed a position with Ruben’s Americas, a fine Swiss lactose-free chocolate com- pany. “We are looking to introduce the brand to the U.S. and I am excited to be part of a female-led team,” she says. CHAD WILSON (BS) reports that he and his wife, Katie (Gosen) Wilson ’09, had their first child in June 2020, a baby boy named Ridge Henry Wil- son. “Mama and baby are healthy and well,” he says. “As his outdoorsy name suggests, Ridge recently joined us for his first camping trip inMammoth. I joinedWestPac Wealth Partners as a wealth management advisor and CPA. My move to joinWestPac was fueled their daughter and expect to welcome a new baby this fall.

WITH CONTINUING EDUCATION Always Move Forward. HUNDREDS OF ONLINE COURSES TO CHOOSE FROM pce.sandiego.edu

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