Talk about your involvement with your Cal Alumni Chapter, why you joined, and why you continue to contribute.
As someone who left California shortly after graduating, alumni clubs and college friends have always been an important part of my networks in the cities where I’ve lived. Supporting alumni clubs has been a way for me to give back, and also to reconnect with likeminded people that become dear friends and colleagues no matter where I go.
Not unlike my diverse set of college experiences, I’m involved with a number of different alumni clubs, some of them during particularly accomplished years. More recently, I’ve become active again and served on the Host Committee for our recently held virtual Annual Reception and was honored to introduce our awardee Representative Doris Matsui (D-CA), ’63, at our Annual Reception in 2019.
When the Cal Alumni Club of Washington, D.C. won Chapter of the Year in 2009, I started our Intramural Volleyball Team that competed with other alumni teams in the area. In 2010, when Cal Alumni Pride was Chapter of the Year, some of us started a DC chapter that was part of the Club’s national impact.
I’m also active in the Pilipino American Alumni Chapter as one of the few East Coast members. As part of the largest incoming classes of Filipino Americans who entered Cal in the late 80's and early 90's, our generation is providing the bulk of the club’s leadership and is looking to ensure long term sustainability by building a larger intergenerational network of alums.
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