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Student Wellness Advisory Board

  • '24-25 academic year Student Advisory Board members
    Student Wellness Advisory Board Members '24-25

    '24-25 Student Wellness Advisory Board

  • '24-25 academic year Student Wellness Advisory Board Co-Presidents
    Student Wellness Advisory Board Co-Presidents '24-25

    '24-25 Co-Presidents left to right: Sydney Wilson, Healthy Minds; Mireya Galacgac, Healthy Bodies; Kyra Hatton, Healthy Communities

  • '24-'25 academic year SWAB Healthy Bodies team
    Healthy Bodies '24-25

    '24-25 Healthy Bodies Team left to right: Julie Yun, ambassador; Mireya Galacgac, president; Kayleigh Hall, ambassador; Lael Soqui, ambassador

  • '24-'25 academic year SWAB Healthy Minds team
    Healthy Minds '24-25

    '24-25 Healthy Minds Team left to right: Ava Bondi, ambassador; Sydney Wilson, president; Gabriella Banuelos, ambassador; not pictured: Camille St James

  • '24-25 academic year SWAB Healthy Communities team
    Healthy Communities '24-25

    '24-25 Healthy Communities Team left to right: Sally Hogue, ambassador; Emily Won, ambassador; Kristen Louis, ambassador; Kyra Hatton, president

The Student Wellness Advisory Board promotes holistic health and well-being through its three branches: Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Healthy Communities and partners with the following university departments to promote prevention education and outreach programming:

Campus Recreation
The Student Health Center
The Counseling Center
The Title IX Office

Wellness Statement

As physical and mental well-being directly impacts academic and spiritual growth, health and well-being objectives support the University’s mission by equipping students to engage in purposeful, healthy behaviors, serve as role models in self-care and bystander intervention, and lead with resilience.

Health and Well-being Goals

The health and well-being goals for Pepperdine University include promoting holistic well-being among students by planning prevention and awareness programs and events, offering well-being-related workshops, training student-leaders, and doing all this within the context of Pepperdine’s Christian mission.

SWAB Members

  Co-Presidents

SWAB is composed of three co-presidents, each representing one area of focus: healthy bodies, healthy minds, and healthy communities. These paid student employee positions are held by prior SWAB ambassadors who have displayed commitment, excellence, and leadership in their ambassador roles. Each president guides organization events, meetings, and training sessions under the counsel and mentorship of the SWAB staff supervisor.

  Ambassadors

SWAB ambassadors are paid student employee positions working under the leadership of one of the three co-presidents and on their areas of focus: healthy bodies, healthy minds, or healthy communities. Ambassadors act as liaisons between specific University departments and the Seaver student community at large. These departments include Campus Recreation and the Student Health Center for Healthy Bodies, the Counseling Center for Healthy Minds, and the Title IX Office for Healthy Communities. Ambassadors are actively engaged in peer education on topics of mental, physical, and gender-based wellness. 

 

Interested in Working with SWAB?

All SWAB positions include an application and interview process. Positions are listed, and applications are available on Handshake in the spring prior to the upcoming academic year.

Have questions about being on the SWAB or collaborating/partnering with the SWAB? Check out SWAB's Instagram account @pepperdineswab, or for more in-depth information and/or questions, email us at swab@pepperdine.edu.

 

Student Wellness Advisory Board Learning Outcomes

Student leaders will:

  • Demonstrate an increased understanding of healthy behaviors and practices that create a safe community
  • Engage in cognitions and behaviors that will improve their own health and enable students to care for others
  • Demonstrate skills to empathize with and assist others from diverse backgrounds who have safety or health-related concerns

General expectations:

  • Serve as a liaison between the student body and University departments represented by SWAB
  • Attend all meetings
  • Collaboratively participate in event planning
  • Maintain and uphold the integrity of health and well-being of the university

Have questions about being on SWAB or collaborating/partnering with SWAB? Check out SWABS's Instagram account @pepperdineswab, or email us at swab@pepperdine.edu.