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Mary J. Lomax-Ghirarduzzi (Formally Wardell-Ghirarduzzi) is an American Communications professor and Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of the Pacific.

Education
Lomax-Ghirarduzzi completed her general education at San Joaquin Delta College in 1986 before transferring to the University of the Pacific and graduating with a B.A. in Communications in 1989. After completing her undergraduate she attended San Diego State University for an MA in Intercultural Counseling and Social Justice Education in 1996 and later Pepperdine University for an Ed.D. in Education with a concentration in Organizational Leadership and Behavior in 2009.

Current Positions
She is currently the Vice President of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department and the Chief Diversity Officer at the University of the Pacific as of April 2021. She is the Commissioner and immediate past President of the San Francisco Public Library Commission. and the president of the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.

She is a Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of the Pacific and holds an affiliate faculty position at the Race and Equity Center of the University of Southern California. She hosts the podcast Humanizing Us.

Prior Positions
Lomax-Ghirarduzzi’s administrative positions are as follows. She served as the Vice Provost of Diversity and Community Engagement and the Associate Vice President at the University of San Francisco as well as the Dean of Student Affairs at Otis College of Art and Design. At CSU San Marcos she served as the Assistant Dean of Students, the Assistant to the Dean of Students, and the Outreach Director for the Student Academic Outreach Program.

She also has academic positions. She has held professor positions at the School of Education, School of Management, and the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco. She has also been in instructor positions first at CSU San Marco first with Upward Bound and then for the First Year Experience Seminar.

Articles

 * Lomax-Ghirarduzzi, M.J. (2022). “Humanizing Oral Health: Race, Representation and Equity in Dental Education and Oral Health Care” Journal of the California Dental Association (JCDA).
 * Wardell- Ghirarduzzi, M.J. (2022). Juneteenth Isn’t Just for African Americans. It’s a Celebration, and a Warning, for Everyone. San Francisco Chronicle
 * Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, M. (2018). Afterword: Today I Gave Myself Permission to Dream: Race and Incarceration in America (Lane Center, Edited by Brigham, E.). San Francisco, CA: University of San Francisco Press.
 * Wardell Ghirarduzzi, et al (2018). Contributing author. Empowerment at the Tower: Leadership and Identity in Higher Education, Edited by Silverberg D., Rowman & Littlefield publishing company, Lanham, MD.
 * Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, M. (2017) “Equity in Smart Cities: The Myth of Neutrality”. Web Blog Post. Society. Meeting of the Minds, April 19, 2017
 * Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, M. (2016). Epilogue: Why Women of Color Matter in Higher Education. In Betty Taylor (Ed.), Listening to the Voices: Multi-ethnic Women in Education (pp 143 - 145). San Francisco, CA: University of San Francisco.
 * Wardell, M. J. (2012). Leadership behaviors and practices among executive women of color in higher education. Dissertation, Pepperdine University, copyright 2012.
 * Wardell, M., et. al (2004). The University of Monterrey, Mexico and Pepperdine University, United States: A Transcultural Leadership Experience. Scholar and Educator: The Journal of the Society of Educators and Scholars, Volume XXVI: Number 1-2

Books

 * Wardell, M. J. (2019). Twice as Good: Leadership and Power for Women of Color. Morgan James Publishing, New York, New York. (Spring 2020 release).

Awards and Recognition
2023 Recipient, Black History Month Legacy Award of Excellence, 35th Annual Black History Month Legacy Awards Gala 2022 Honoree and Award, Women of Impact, Notre Dame High Schools. Honored for advancing women’s leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, Honoree for International Women’s Day, The Stockton Record. Honored as one of ten women in the community that dedicated their time, energy and resources to help Stockton prosper.

2019 Library Laureate Award for Twice as Good: Leadership and Power for Women of Color, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (“Laureate Bios - Friends of the SFPL”)

2018 Honoree and Award, CEDAW (Education). Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women/ U.N. September 2018, San Francisco

2017 Honoree and Award, Most Influential Women in Business, San Francisco Business Times (McDermid) Honoree and Award, African American Historical & Cultural Society. For contributions to addressing the crisis in African American Education 2015 Hero Award, San Francisco Human Rights Commission. For advancing human and civil rights for the community and citizens 1986 Community Involvement Scholarship, The University of the Pacific