AWC-November 2024 Stress Relief and Annual Founders Awards
Celebrate next-gen journalists, as three local student news reporters receive the AWC-SB Lois Phillips Founder’s Award. Find out what it is like to cover campus events in today’s climate, and what interests them in journalism.
Plus, Stressed out? You are not alone. Dr. Victoria Gonzalez will help us identify and manage some of the stressors in our personal and professional lives. You’ll learn key advice for relief and improving your mental health in an interactive session.
Come relieve your stress and honor and support young professionals in the field of communications!
November Event Agenda:
– 5:30 pm arrival and mingle
– 5:55 pm Presentation – stress management and relief
– 6:25 pm Founder’s Awards
– 6:45 Adjourn
Victoria Gonzalez, PhD is a licensed psychologist specializing in interpersonal and identity issues, dedicated to helping individuals lead more authentic and meaningful lives. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon and went on to complete her doctorate in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Currently, Dr. Gonzalez works at UCSB while also maintaining a part-time private practice focused on maternal mental health. She employs an integrated, relational, and evidence-informed approach in her work, tailoring her methods to meet the unique needs of individuals and groups. Dr. Gonzalez is passionate about empowering her clients to utilize mindfulness and relaxation strategies, enabling them to connect with their personal narratives, values, and intuition. Through this process, she helps them enact meaningful changes to enhance their lives.
Dr. Gonzalez is the former clinical director and clinical training director of Haven Family resource. Some of her former work include; providing individual, group, and family therapy at Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM), as well as St. John’s Child and Family Development Center. Prior to obtaining her doctorate from UCSB, Dr. Gonzalez provided research for First 5, American Institutes for Research and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
2024 AWC-SB Lois Phillips Founder’s Award Recipients
About the AWC-SB Lois Phillips Founder’s Award
Read the October 2, 2024 Press Release
Each year Lois Phillips, founder of the Association for Women in Communications Santa Barbara, selects one or more outstanding, sometimes up and coming, women who have demonstrated exceptional abilities as a communicator.
This year’s awards recipients are student journalists.
AWC-SB Founder Awards Recipient BIOS
Joyce Chi, internal news director, KCSB-FM 91.9 (UCSB):
My name is Joyce Chi, and I’m a fourth-year biopsychology major at UCSB. This is my second year serving as the Internal News Director at KCSB-FM. I joined KCSB News in Fall 2021, exploring my interests in science, public health, and bioethics, then became News Editor a year after that. I’m passionate about breaking down complex topics so that everyone can understand and empathize with a story.
Rosie Bultman, external news director, KCSB-FM 91.9 (UCSB)
Rosie Bultman is the External News Director at KCSB FM and a History of Public Policy and Law major at UC Santa Barbara. As news director, Rosie is especially interested in covering local activism, international politics and labor rights from an investigative standpoint. In addition to co-leading KCSB’s news department alongside Joyce Chi, Rosie Bultman is the sole producer of The People’s Program on KCSB, a global news show that is, in her words, a “critical examination of our political world.” Over the last year Rosie also began the production of a video documentary, The Takeover, which tells the story of UCSB’s historic Black Student Union protests in 1968. Rosie hopes to pursue a career in independent multimedia journalism after she graduates from UCSB this spring.
Cebelli Pfeifer, Editor-in-Chief, The Channels (SBCC)
Hello! My name is Cebelli Pfeifer and I am a second-year at Santa Barbara City College, and this year’s fall 2024 Editor-in-Chief of The Channels, our student-run newspaper. I am extremely passionate about not only story-telling and unraveling my many curiosities about the world, but also making an impact in my community. Some of my favorite stories to cover are personal profile stories and issues that concern our greater community. In addition to writing and editing for The Channels, I am a double-major in Political Science and Communication and have plans to soon head to a University. I am extremely grateful to be receiving this award and to be recognized for my work as a student-journalist.