Alumni Recognition

The Goldman School recognizes an alum at the School's alumni dinner who has made a significant contribution to the field of public policy. In some years, GSPP also gives an additional award for unique contributions to the field. The Alumni Dinner takes place every other year. 

Alum of the Year Award Recipients

Special Awards

2020 Alumni Awards

The Goldman School is pleased to announce the 2020 Alumni Award Recipients:

 

Alumna of the Year - Susan P. Ehrlich MD, MPP 1984
Chief Executive Officer, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center

Dr. Ehrlich is the Chief Executive Officer of the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and a Professor of Medicine with the University of California, San Francisco.  ZSFG is a 397 bed acute care hospital and a key part of the San Francisco Health Network and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.  ZSFG is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco, and through its long-standing affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco, serves as the City’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and its only 24/7 psychiatric emergency department.  With its almost 6,000 DPH and UCSF staff and providers, annually ZSFG serves more than 94,000 patients, provides more than 20% of the City’s inpatient care, psychiatric emergency and inpatient services, and almost 350,000 full-scope ambulatory primary and specialty care visits.  ZSFG serves all San Franciscans and is focused on its most vulnerable citizens, with the vast majority of its patients on Medicaid, Medicare or uninsured.

Prior to her appointment at ZSFG, Dr. Ehrlich served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Ambulatory Care Services, founding Medical Director of the Ron Robinson Senior Care Center and Assistant Health Officer for the San Mateo County Health System.  Dr. Ehrlich also has extensive background and knowledge of public health policy and finance at all levels of government, having served as Budget and Planning Director for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and a health care analyst within the California State Legislative Analyst’s Office. She is a Lean-certified physician executive with extensive expertise leading and transforming public health care organizations serving diverse and vulnerable populations.  During 2019 and 2020 she led ZSFG’s Epic go-live and its response to the COVID pandemic.

Dr. Ehrlich received her BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University, her Master’s in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and her MD from the University of California, San Francisco.  She is board certified in Internal Medicine and completed her primary care internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard University-affiliated training hospital.  She previously served as the Chair of the Board for the California Association of Public Hospitals, and currently serves as the Chair of the Board for America’s Essential Hospitals.  She continues to practice primary care internal medicine at the Richard Fine People’s Clinic on the ZSFG campus.

 

Alumna of the Year - Teri Gullo, MPP 1983
Director of Budget Analysis, Congressional Budget Office

Teri Gullo is the Director of Budget Analysis at CBO. She guides and contributes to analyses that are critical to the legislative processes of the Congress—including projections of federal spending for the current year and the next 10 years under current laws and policies for about 1,000 budget accounts covering all federal activities; tallies of federal spending throughout the year; and about 600 formal cost estimates (most of which include estimates of the cost of federal mandates on state, local, and tribal governments) each year for legislation approved by committees and thousands of informal estimates each year for legislation under consideration. Ms. Gullo has worked at CBO since 1985. She served as an analyst in the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit, where she handled land and water management issues. She also helped create and managed the State and Local Government Cost Estimates Unit until 2007, when she became the division’s Deputy Director.

Before coming to CBO, Ms. Gullo worked at the Urban Institute, conducting research on a variety of public finance issues, including infrastructure investment and state implementation of federal block grants. She graduated from Scripps College with a bachelor’s degree in American studies and received a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Award for Social Justice Impact - Kristin Urquiza, MPA 2020
Co-Founder and Chief Activist, Marked by COVID

Kristin Urquiza is a graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy where she has a Master of Public Affairs. She is an environmental advocate at Mighty Earth, where she works to hold corporations like Cargill accountable to their industrial agricultural practices that displace indigenous people from their lands and drive deforestation in places like the Amazon rainforest and beyond. Additionally, Kristin works closely with Liberation in a Generation, a group working to narrow the wealth gap between people of color and white families in the United States within a generation.

Her grandparents were migrant farmworkers– from Mexico and Oklahoma — and her father worked in the fields as a child. She grew up in the Maryvale community of Phoenix, and is a proud product of public primary education and the first person in her family to go to college. Maryvale is a community of predominantly people of color and immigrants, and is now seeing the highest rates of COVID-19 in the nation, where people are waiting 13 hours to be tested.