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Fernando Soriano
Fernando Soriano
Fernando Soriano is a resident of La Jolla and as a member of the Pastoral Council for the Newman Center Catholic Community at UCSD he represents the faculty. He is a psychologist and professor at California State University San Marcos, but he does collaborative research with faculty from UCSD primarily in the Medical School through the division of Community Pediatrics. His research specialty is in youth violence and youth violence prevention among adolescents. He does most of his research through the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Rady’s Children’s Hospital in San Diego where he also has an office. He personally likes to be involved in different ministries that help underprivileged and underserved populations, particularly with those benefiting youth. He has served as coordinator of the Storefront ministry offered through the Newman Center, which prepares dinner for homeless teens living in the shelter called the Storefront the first Sunday of every month. He is also the point of contact for those interested in the prison ministry. While on the Pastoral Council, he hopes to help strengthen the linkages between faculty and students, and to serve as support to both undergraduate, but also graduate students from UCSD who attend the Newman Center. In terms of hobbies and past-times, he loves to dance salsa and other Latin dances, enjoys learning to cook and cooking with others, and he is at home in nature, hiking, swimming and jogging. He travels frequently and enjoys learning about different countries, cultures and peoples through his travels. As a new member of the Council, he is anxious to roll-up his sleeves to join others on the Council to help the Newman Catholic Community at UCSD to become an inviting, warm, cohesive, learned and caring community to its members and to the surrounding community. He loves the emphasis on social justice that the parish is committed to, which he feels is so desperately needed within our faith, government and within our nation as a whole.
