Pepperdine Caruso Law Belonging Awards 2024 Highlights
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law hosted the fourth annual Belonging Awards on its Malibu campus on March 2, 2024. The ceremony celebrated individual students, student organizations, staff, and faculty who exemplify diversity, inclusion, and belonging at Caruso Law and alumni who promote diversity and belonging in their profession.
“The Belonging Awards has become a key event around diversity and belonging at Caruso Law precisely because it reflects that we value the hard work done by our awardees,” said Dean of Students, Belonging, and Career Development, Chalak Richards Guinses. “Celebrating each other encourages us to continue to build a legal profession where everyone belongs, and our awardees and keynote speaker reminds us that it is possible.”
More than 100 community members, alumni, students, faculty, and staff attended the event at the Lighthouse on Pepperdine’s Malibu campus, which included welcome remarks from Guinses and Pepperdine University vice president for community belonging and chief diversity officer J. Goosby Smith, followed by an invocation by Caruso Law dean, Paul Caron. The keynote address was delivered by the 29th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Patricia Guerrero.