“Gooood afternoon… This is K-D-H-R coming live from Cal State Dominguez. This is Michelle Padilla. …Happy Valentine's Day everybody. It's also go red for women American Heart Association Month …and we're winding down Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week…” Michelle Padilla, a junior at California State University, Dominguez Hills, really puts her heart into raising awareness of heart disease. And she takes to the airwaves to do it. She's one of two-dozen student volunteer on-air hosts at the on-campus radio station KDHR, which is funded by the Associated Students, Inc. “I want to help those that want to get help and want to get better,” she said of why she hosts the talk and music ... Read More
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Latinas Juntas: 10 Years Together
Whether you attend or just peek in on Latinas Juntas (Latinas Together) at California State University, Dominguez Hills, it's easy to see that the event fosters instant, deep, and lasting camaraderie among the students, alumni, faculty, and staff, no matter if they are returnees or first-time participants to the event, now in its 10th year. Its co-founders Denna Sanchez, a clinical psychologist for the Career Center, and Monica Rosas-Baines, a clinical psychologist for Student Health and Psychological Services, not only lead the way to empowerment and sisterhood, they embody it. The two–who, Sanchez said, “finish each other's sentences”–met on campus in 2002 and instantly bonded, drawing ... Read More
Sam Enriquez: Above the Fold at the Wall Street Journal
Sam Enriquez (Class of '85, B.S., economics) is featured as a CSU Dominguez Hills alumnus in the CSU Working for California campaign. His list of accomplishments are highlighted on the CSU website and as part of banner displays in the State Capitol Building. --- Just a month after his promotion to national news editor of the Wall Street Journal in 2008, Sam Enriquez found himself reaching back more than two decades to his courses in economics from California State University, Dominguez Hills. That fall, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., a global financial services firm and then the fourth-largest investment bank in the U.S., declared bankruptcy, ushering in a historic autumn of frozen credit ... Read More
Steven Moreau: The Road to a Career in Healthcare Leadership
A bit of sage advice went a long way for California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnus Steven Moreau (Class of '80, M.S., clinical science: medical technology) when it came to navigating a career that has evolved from being a microbiologist in a clinical laboratory to the president and chief executive officer at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. It was something his late father would often tell him: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it. And it doesn't matter which path you take because what you do is you make the most of whatever path you choose.” This has been a guiding principle throughout Moreau's life. Even as an undergraduate student without much direction, Moreau ... Read More
Mike Bugason: Brokering Peace in Central Africa
Surviving a devastating decade-long war in his hometown of Arua in the West Nile region of Uganda, Africa, has led California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnus Mike Bugason (Class of '09, M.A., negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding) to a career of helping those affected to heal from the wounds of conflict. “The negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding (NCRP) degree greatly shaped my outlook on conflict, with the Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding (NCR 541) course particularly inspiring me to join global efforts aimed at healing the wounds of conflict associated with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),” Bugason stated. Based in Bangui in the Central ... Read More
