Dr. Michael Moodian
Dr. Mike Moodian was recently reappointed to the POST Commission by the governor, and the State Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment on August 26. Mike has now received five gubernatorial appointments in an 11-year span.

Dr. Mike Moodian was recently reappointed to the POST Commission by the governor, and the State Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment on August 26. Mike has now received five gubernatorial appointments in an 11-year span.

Rose Salseda ’07 (BA Art) was awarded a 2026-27 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship. Dr. Salseda is an assistant professor of art & art history at Stanford University and a cofounder of the US Latinx Art Forum.

Dr. Rose Salseda ’07 (BA Art) published Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (University of Chicago Press, 2026). Unrest is the first book to examine this visual art legacy, recovering cross-racial, immigrant, and intergenerational experiences of the events.

Chelsea Long ’13 (M.S. TESOL) published her debut book Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood Beyond Patriarchy (Westminster John Knox Press). It releases September 8 with a foreword by Dr. Christena Cleveland.
Gayle Jacobe Olson-Binder ’77 (B.S. counseling) has been appointed by the Poway USD merit system Personnel Commissioner. Previously, she was a teacher, counselor, psychologist, administrator, ACSA State President for Student Services & Special Education then Retire Committee President.