The University of California, Davis, Cal Aggie Alumni Association has announced the recipients of its 2024 Alumni Awards, an annual program that recognizes remarkable impacts made by alumni and friends of the university.
This year’s winners are leaders in technology, health care, civil advocacy and higher education. All have dedicated their time and resources to create life-changing opportunities for students at UC Davis and around the world.
The Cal Aggie Alumni Association, or CAAA, which serves more than 314,000 UC Davis graduates, has chosen to honor:
Sam Fleischer’s career path to becoming a data analyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers first began with a mathematics internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA.
U.S. Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon, M.A. ’88, has spent the past 20 years serving as a senior diplomat in Africa, where she has led efforts to negotiate the safe transport of Sudanese refugees from Darfur and quell the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV and Ebola. FitzGibbon has also worked extensively to reduce incidents of human trafficking and create opportunities for women and girls.
The Cal Aggie Alumni Association recognizes the 2023-24 Affinity Network and APFA Scholarship Award Recipients.
On behalf of the donors, volunteers, the CAAA Board, the African and African Alumni Association (5A), Chicanx Latinx Alumni Association (CLAA), Sword and Sandals, and the Aggie Parent and Family Association (APFA), congratulations to the 2023-2024 recipients with outstanding leadership and dedication to the UC Davis community.
Sharon Sharpnack ’65, D.V.M. ’67, and Susan Conner ’65, D.V.M. ’67, have always done everything together, from sharing birthdays, earning UC Davis veterinary degrees and running their own practice in an Oregon town called Sisters.
Creator of famous “The Joggers” sculpture in downtown Davis, Tony Natsoulas ’82, M.F.A ’85 studied under famous UC Davis artists like Robert Arneson and Wayne Thiebaud before embarking on a 40-year career as a distinguished artist of the region.
UC Davis alum Emily Winston, M.S. ’04, has turned a favorite childhood memory into a thriving enterprise that is giving the East Coast bagel scene a run for its money. Winston is the founder of Boichik Bagels, a New York–style bagelry based in Berkeley, Calif.
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