Alumni Advocates of the Year

Julio Cardona
California State University, Monterey Bay

Julio Cardona currently serves as the assistant dean of graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he previously was director of graduate recruitment and retention. Prior to that, he served in various student and academic affairs positions at CSU Monterey Bay and Johnson & Wales University. Most recently, Cardona was a director of school programs for the Office of the President at Stanford University.

In 2007, he was elected vice president of the CSU Monterey Bay Alumni Association, and is currently serving as the chair of the Nomination and Scholarship Committees. Notably, Cardona is the first second-generation CSU Monterey Bay alumnus; his mother was a member of the first graduating class of CSUMB of 1997. Cardona has also taught at CSU Monterey Bay as a lecturer for the First Year Seminar program since 2006.

He earned a BA in human communication from CSU Monterey Bay (2003) and an MA in education from Stanford University (2004).