2021 CSUSM SHRM Board Members

2021 CSUSM SHRM Board Members

by Christina Huynh, CSUSM SHRM President

As we head into the semester, we would like to share our board members for Spring 2021. Our Co-Presidents, Sabrina Meleka and Christina Huynh, our Vice President, Madison Farfan, our secretary Charlese Tyson, our treasurer Megan Trahan, our marketing director, Jazmin Flores, and our faculty advisor, Pierre Towns. Most of our board members took on a new position this semester and have spent winter break transitioning to our new roles. We are very fortunate to have such a wonderful board. Our members have shown a great amount of effort in preparing for the semester. We’ve had two board meetings prior to the semester to discuss succession planning and happenings for the semester. Our goal is to grow our society and gain member retention. In order to do so, we plan on providing virtual gift cards to one member at the end of each meeting, initiate HR related games, work closely with professors to provide extra credit opportunities, and recruit new members through the CoBA meet and greet. Additionally, we have worked closely with our VP Madison and marketing director Jazmin to create a class pitch video to help with the recruitment process. We made sure to send this video to all management professors, all HR related classes and business development classes known as BUS 300. Membership costs will be completely free this semester as a result of our virtual setting. Additionally, all students are invited to SHRM meetings and we encourage their participation.

We will have a total of six bi-weekly meetings this semester. Our first meeting will consist of introductions and social networking. For our second meeting, we will open the floor to our faculty advisor Pierre Towns who will share his background and touch base on the different functions of HR. For our third meeting, we have the honor of having Emily Mullin come and discuss the benefits of becoming a SD SHRM student member and the importance of networking.  Juan Carlos Gallardo will join our fourth meeting to share his expertise in employee engagement/performance as how to keep retention in the workplace. At our fifth meeting, we will share the floor with Felipe Angel who has a background in recruitment. Lastly,  we will be hosting our very first alumni panel where we will have recent grads come share life after graduation, job searching, and so much more. We are so thankful to have speakers who are willing to donate their time with us and share their knowledge and experiences with the society.

We are excited to start this semester and look forward to watching the society continuously grow!