USC Volunteer Recognition Awards

Stephanie Paggi ’74, MS ’77, EdD ’90

Stephanie Paggi has been a devoted USC volunteer for more than 35 years. Volunteerism is a way of life for Paggi, whose family stressed the importance of “giving back to what you believe in.” She acknowledges her parents and grandparents as exceptional role models and community leaders.

A current member of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors, Paggi is a past president of the Trojan League of Orange County, and a past chair of the Alumnae Coordinating Council. She also supports the USC Associates, the USC Caruso Catholic Center’s Newman Guild and Gamma Phi Beta. She has served on the host committees for the Alumni Leadership Conference and the USC Women’s Conference. In 2015, Paggi received the Widney Alumni House Volunteer Award in recognition of her outstanding service to USC and the Trojan Family.

In addition to her volunteer work at USC, Paggi is active in many professional and community organizations, including the Junior League of Orange County and the Association of California School Administrators (OC). She is currently vice chair of the La Salle College Preparatory board of trustees.

Paggi received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the USC Rossier School of Education and worked in public education for over 40 years. She is recognized as a passionate advocate for students, especially in early childhood education.

Jill Stuart ’88

Jill Bowen Stuart is a 1988 graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business. A proud member of the Trojan Family, Stuart lives by her credo that “being a volunteer is the best gift you can give.”

For the past five years, Stuart has dedicated herself to mentoring the young women at USC’s longest-standing sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, as their chapter advisor. She has transformed the chapter by increasing membership, recruiting new members to the Advisory and House Corporation boards, and orchestrating major improvements to the chapter facility. In addition, she has used her role as advisor to promote the value of positive leadership, inspiring the chapter’s student members and alumnae to be actively involved in the sorority as well as the overall Panhellenic community.

In 2018, Stuart was honored to present USC Football Head Coach Clay Helton with a national award from Alpha Chi Omega, recognizing Coach Helton for his compassion, dedication and friendship towards a sorority sister fighting cancer.

At USC, Stuart is also involved with the Intersorority Parents Council and Town & Gown of USC. She and her husband and fellow Trojan Chip are avid Trojan Football fans and boosters, and have supported the Monday Morning Quarterback program for the past 20 years, with Chip serving as the program facilitator.

Stuart and Chip reside in Pacific Palisades and have three sons: J.D., Jeff and Scott.

Garrick Tang ’96

Garrick Tang was chairman of the USC Alumni Association Hong Kong from 2014 to 2018. A leader in Hong Kong’s Trojan community for more than 20 years, Tang has devoted himself to finding new ways, particularly through social media, to reach and engage with members of the Hong Kong Trojan Family, from alumni and parents to friends and supporters.

Highlights of his tenure as chairman include his stewardship of the association’s 20th anniversary gala in 2017, which drew more than 350 participants, including special guest Jack Knott, then dean of the USC Price School of Public Policy. In 2018, when the USC Trojan Marching Band performed in Macau, Tang organized an alumni trip from Hong Kong on a day’s notice, to welcome the band at a special lunch and cheer them on.

More recently, at the outset of the pandemic, Tang was similarly quick to set up and lead a campaign of “Trojans Supporting Trojans.” In just one month, the campaign collected and donated 35,000 protective masks to USC hospitals, schools and departments.

Tang has also served on the board of directors of the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association.

Professionally, Tang is co-founder (along with two other Trojans) and COO of Cosmo Real Estate in Hong Kong. Prior to founding Cosmo, he spent more than 10 years in sales and marketing for various local and international property developers. He was president of the Global Real Estate Association (Hong Kong) and founder of the Hong Kong Real Estate Management Bulletin. He is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators (HIREA) and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors (HKIoD).

Kevork Zoryan ’94

Kevork Zoryan is a Los Angeles native and graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business, where he earned a degree in business administration, with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and real estate development. While at USC, Zoryan was a proud trombone player in the Trojan Marching Band, and served as president of the Armenian Student Association.

Zoryan is currently a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he heads U.S. asset management for private equity real estate funds under Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI). In this role, he is responsible for the sourcing, execution and asset management of real estate investments. Prior to this, he was co-head of U.S. acquisitions and head of MSREI West Coast.

Zoryan serves on the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors, the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Executive Committee and the Trojan Marching Band Alumni Association Board of Directors. In addition, he is an active supporter of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies, and has been a frequent guest lecturer for various USC Marshall and USC Price School of Public Policy classes.

Helping students has long been a priority for Zoryan, who has served as a mentor in USC Marshall’s Career Advantage Program (CAP) for the past 17 years. He has also participated in the USC Marshall MBV Board of Counselors mentorship program, and has provided career advice to the student members of Society 53.

Outside of USC, Zoryan is a global governing trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and chairs its Los Angeles Advisory Board. He and his wife, Liz, have three children: Jacqueline, Andrew and Michael.