Celebrating excellence: FY24 SPOT award recipients announced

June 20, 2024

As we wrap-up another successful and eventful academic year, we wanted to take a moment to shout-out and celebrate the FY24 SPOT award recipients for our division.

The SPOT awards program is our campus recognition program that recognizes employees for their noteworthy contributions on a specific project or task. The criteria for SPOT awards are the same criteria for “Achieve Together” — Collaboration, Goal Accomplishment, Inclusion & Belonging, Innovation, and Job Mastery, and at least one criterion must be reflected in the nomination. Managers, supervisors, peers, or other campus colleagues may nominate employees for SPOT awards. Recipients will receive a $500 cash award along with an award letter and certificate presented by their manager or supervisor.

While the names on the list below reflect some of the impactful work we accomplished in our division, we recognize that this is not an exhaustive list of all of the critical work and accomplishments that you each contributed consistently throughout the year.

We celebrate and appreciate your commitment to the division and look forward to kicking off a new school year and SPOT awards cycle in the coming months.


FY24 SPOT Award Recipients

Marc Abizeid (OBI)
Alexandra Acevedo Grave (CLSD)
Diana Barajas (CE3)
Alecia Barnes (DSP)
Phenocia Bauerle (NASD)
Melissa Briones (DSP)
Yuki Burton (CE3/EOP)
Laronda Chambers (VCEI)
Karla De La Cruz (VCEI)
Evelyn Dominguez (VCEI)
Samantha Dong (CE3/EOP)
Doaa Dorgham (SSWANA)
Ashley Gallegos (OBI)
Monica Garcia (VCEI)
Catherine Geiger (DSP)
Luisa Giulianetti (CE3/MLR)
Julio Gomez (CE3/RSP)
Nelzy Gonzalez-Zaragoza (CE3)
Leo Gonzalez (VCEI)
Rio Gonzalez (OBI)
Julie Ha (DSP)
Julie Heal (DSP)
Luis Hernandez (CE3)
Anna Hike (CE3/RSP)
Diego Holguin (EOP)
Liliana Iglesias (CE3/USP)
Mitzi Iniguez (CE3/EOP)
Christian Ivey (OBI)
Takiyah Jackson (AASD)

Matthew Jaramillo (DSP)
Amber Johnson (VCEI)
Jasmine Kamariotis (CE3/TSC)
Xanth King (DSP)
Ann Kwong (DSP)
Peter Le (CE3/SSS)
Tomie Linear (CE3)
Rachel Marks (DSP)
Jay Maytorena (DSP)
Madison Monbleau (DSP)
Victoria Pena (DSP)
Andrea Perez (MCC)
Gladys Perez (EOP)
Aubrey Quinto (DSP)
Lu Ramirez Martinez (CE3)
Maya Richards (OBI)
Julie Rivera (VCEI)
Villy Somthida (VCEI)
Riva Szostkowski (CE3)
Dean Tanioka (CE3/TSC)
Charlotte Taylor (OBI)
Jacob Tompkins (OBI)
Lauryn Valerio (EOP)
Ashley Villanueva (VCEI)
Andrea Wilson (EJCE)
Dylan Woods (DSP)
Heather Yaden (DSP)
Jacob Zheng (DSP)