Jose Hernandez Ugalde ’96, received the 2006 George B. Walter Service to Society Award.
Ugalde is Costa Rica country director for Cross-Cultural Solutions, an international agency offering individual and small-group volunteer opportunities in ten countries.
He came to Lawrence as a Spanish department language assistant and graduated with an English major in 1996. As a graduate student at the University of Costa Rica, he was employed in the university’s international programs department, and he also has worked with the Foreign Service Foundation for Peace and Democracy and served as director of public relations and as a protocol officer for the United Nations Conference on the Environment. He has taught courses on civic education and democracy as a visiting faculty member at the Close-Up Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2006