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Where Do Dons Go? Favorite Locations Revealed at CelebrateUSF

Live from the Hilltop, it’s Saturday night! For CelebrateUSF 2026’s headline Silk Speaker Series event, instead of giving the audience his usual “Weekend Update” alongside Michael Che, Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian Colin Jost took center stage. 

The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco (USF) is celebrating 25 years of preparing students for lives of ethical public service through community-engaged learning, civic engagement, and transformative fieldwork experience.

March 13, 2020, was supposed to be memorable for one reason: the birth of my son. Months earlier, when we scheduled the induction, my OBGYN teased me about intentionally having a baby on Friday the 13th. I laughed off her nod to the superstition. Four days after I delivered, the Bay Area shut down. Like everyone else, I watched the world change overnight.

Reading about China’s biotechnology industry is very different from “going in person and talking to someone who’s doing the research,” Audrey Guan MS ’26 said.

Committed to Innovation as an Educator and Leader by Merideth Lewis, PhD, RN, PHN, CNOR

Jose Bonilla earned his master's in sport management from USF, putting him on track to join the Giants as an intern in 2011. Fifteen years later, he is driven by family and a belief that small things done well move big outcomes.

Kimberly Baltzell, a BSN alumna, shares her journey.

In a sense, USF Law’s new Arns & Brandi Trial Institute has been in the works for over 20 years. That’s around when its cofounders, Robert Arns ’75 and Thomas Brandi ’72, first took on adjunct co-teaching duties for the Trial Practice course at USF Law.

Each summer, a cohort of USF law students follows their passion for justice into public defenders' offices, legal aid organizations, and government agencies that cannot afford to bring on paid interns. That opportunity exists in part thanks to the generosity of Tom Hinkle BS '61 and his late wife, Genevieve.