New Trustees
John Fukunaga P’24 and his wife, Cheryl Shojinaga, both native Angelenos, reside in Manhattan Beach, California, and are the parents of Emma ’24 and Jennifer. Fukunaga began working with Sony Pictures’ legal department in 1994, and since 2009, he has served as executive vice president of the corporate legal department and deputy general counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment. He currently oversees a team that advises on a wide variety of worldwide legal issues, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and digital and television network launches and operations. Prior to his current role, Fukunaga served as senior vice president of international distribution for Sony Pictures Television. He began his legal career as an associate in the corporate department at the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Los Angeles, after earning both his BA and JD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Elizabeth “Liz” Lee ’02 graduated from Scripps with a dual major in political science and economics. Lee worked in the offices of Congressman Michael M. Honda in Washington, DC, and San Jose, California, for two years, before earning her JD in 2007 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is currently working in T-Mobile’s legal department. Lee’s legal practice has included corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer protection. She serves on the boards of the Henry Art Gallery and the Directors of the Asian Bar Association of Washington. Lee also lectures on corporate governance topics at the University of Washington School of Law’s Entrepreneurial Clinic. At Scripps, she served as Toll Hall president and vice president-judicial of the Scripps College Council and was active with the 5C Students of Color Coalition and Asian American Student Union. Prior to serving as president of the Alumnae Leadership Council, she chaired the Honors, Awards, and Recognition Committee, where she helped to launch a self-nomination process for alums.
Beth Nolan ’73 received Scripps College Alumnae Association’s Distinguished Alumna Award in 2000. Nolan earned her JD at Georgetown University Law Center, where she was editor-in-chief of the law review. She served as counsel to the president in the Clinton White House and senior vice president and general counsel of George Washington University (GW) for nearly 14 years, retiring in June 2021. In prior years, she served as associate counsel to the president and as deputy assistant attorney general and attorney-advisor in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel. As a tenured law professor at GW, Nolan taught constitutional law, professional responsibility and ethics, government ethics, and government lawyering. She serves as chair of the board of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and as vice chair of the board of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Nolan and her husband, Charles Wright, live in the Washington, DC, area.
Abygayle “Aby” Rivera ’21 is a recent-graduate trustee who dual-majored in Latin American and Caribbean studies and Chicanx/Latinx studies on the pre-law track. As a student, Rivera was highly engaged with the Scripps community, working in the Office of Admission, the Scripps College Academy summer program, Tiernan Field House, and the Motley Coffeehouse. She served as a community coordinator for residential life and program intern for Scripps Communities of Resources and Empowerment (SCORE). In summer 2020, Rivera pursued independent research under the guidance of Professor Martha Arguello, visiting professor at Scripps, with funding provided by the Mellon Interdisciplinary Humanities Initiative. She recently moved to New York, where she works at the Family Center as a legal services coordinator, assisting residents with housing law and eviction prevention, public benefits and income support, family law, and lifetime planning.
