Labor and Employment Studies students win SFSU Ernest C. Dillard scholarship

Last month, the Labor and Employment Studies Program honored this year’s recipients of the SFSU Ernest C. Dillard Sr. Endowed Scholarship: Leila Walton and Shalisa Bridget. The scholarship honors the former United Auto Workers education director and prominent civil rights activist, who was the grandfather of former Lam Family College of Business Dean Linda Oubre.

When Dillard died at the age of 101, Oubre’s family established a student scholarship in his memory. She wrote: “How ironic that his granddaughter now leads the only business school lucky enough to house a labor studies program.” Oubre left SFSU in 2018 to become president of Whittier College, which she led until 2023.

At last month’s event, Walton and Bridget were joined by former scholarship winner Dee Bradford (B.A., ’20), who now serves as SFSU’s Human Resources manager of regulatory programs and whistleblower compliance; Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Amy Sueyoshi; and Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Studies John Logan. Sueyoshi called the meeting “great” and the students “inspirational.”

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