Anita Walia
’13, Public Health
Anita Walia serves as a program coordinator with San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency where she explores opportunities for student involvement in Health and Human Services for hands-on experience in supporting the San Diego community. She helped establish the School of Public Health Alumni Board at SDSU, where she now volunteers.
Katie Howland
’13, International Security and Conflict Resolution, Political Science
Katie Howland is executive director of Millie’s Bookshelf, a San Diego-based humanitarian literacy nonprofit that installs micro libraries promoting reading programs for refugee children worldwide. As leader of San Diego’s only nonprofit operating in overseas refugee settings, she works closely with the university’s International Security and Conflict Resolution department to ensure exposure for Aztecs to career options in humanitarian-related fields.
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