2024 Alumni Awardees

Spotlight Alumni Award

2024 Spotlight Alumni Awardees

The Spotlight Alumni Award aims to celebrate graduates who are uniquely and successfully working to make a difference in their communities in significant and creative ways.

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Dr. Colin Bowles (00)

Dr. Colin Bowles has been Lead Physical Therapist at Richard J. Donovan State Prison in San Diego, CA for the past five years. Being able to serve the often overlooked, incarcerated population and advocate for their rehabilitative needs in mind, body, and spirit is very rewarding and brings purpose to each day.

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Jessica Walton (B.A. 05, M.A. 14)

Jessica Walton is a CalWORKs Counselor at San Diego Continuing Education. She serves mostly refugee students from Haiti. Jessica is a first-generation American and college graduate. She earned her Bachelor’s (Communications) and Master’s (Educational Counseling) degrees from PLNU.

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Laura Rice (MBA 10)

Laura Rice, MBA, CFRE, leads the development of sustaining philanthropy to support the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s commitment to worldwide conservation efforts to save species.

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Christina Hastings (05)

Over the past 18 years, corporate communications professional Christina Hastings has navigated through two major career shifts, learning some important lessons along the way about the value of learning, hard work and staying faithful to your values.

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