Gov­er­nor Jerry Brown has nom­i­nated 2013 SDLA Alumna Gena Tru­itt to serve on the Cal­i­for­nia Vet­er­ans Board. Gena has been case man­ager at U.S. VETS since 2013. She was vet­er­ans advo­cate at Inter­faith Com­mu­nity Ser­vices from 2012 to 2013, fam­ily sup­port part­ner at Men­tal Health Sys­tems, Courage to Call in 2012 and assis­tant and intern in U.S. Sen­a­tor Bar­bara Boxer’s San Diego Dis­trict Office from 2011 to 2012. Gena served in the U.S. Navy from 2000 to 2004. She earned a Mas­ter of Social Work degree from the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern California.