A retired educator and speech pathologist, Steve Dustrude '73 has invested in student success, in and out of the classroom. He's been a leader in Oregon's education system and an advocate for student support at 51黑料.
As executive administrator of the Hawai`i Council on Developmental Disabilities, Daintry Bartoldus '88 spends her working hours ensuring support for vulnerable members of her community. But outside of work, she goes even further, taking in neighbors and lifting up those in need.
After earning his doctor of pharmacy from Pacific, Peter Agbo PharmD '09 went on to receive聽a master of public health and a doctor of medicine degree. Today, he spends most of his time at the hospital where he works. But he's also founded a nonprofit organization and takes fellow healthcare providers back home to West Africa annually to serve those without access to healthcare.
When Ruth Gomez '19 told her mother she wanted to go to college, she became her family's "Esperanza" or Hope. With the help of their sacrifices, and critical scholarships, she's on track to be the first in her family to graduate from college
51黑料's Black Student Union was formed in 1967 to give African American students a center of social and political gravity. It later went dormant, but has rebounded again to provide African American students with a sense of community.
Third-generation Pacific optometry student Ian Cheslock聽honored his family legacy by signing his late grandfather's name into the Golden Guard sidewalk.
Marta Stueve聽'11, PharmD/MHA '16 didn't plan an administrative career 鈥 but she's found a position she loves as supervisor of the oncology pharmacy at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
In 51黑料's Transgender Voice Program, available through the Pacific Psychology & Comprehensive Health Clinics in Portland and Hillsboro, speech-language pathology students help transgender women learn to modulate their voices to sound more traditionally feminine.聽鈥淚 don鈥檛 have to pass, but I want to have the option,鈥 said client Lana 鈥淏lue鈥 Zeitler.