Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Stanford University
Master Certificate in Internet Marketing
University of San Francisco
Trainings
2025 – Trans Agenda for Liberation Strategic Communications Training: Digital Strategy – Transgender Law Center
2025 – Gender and Nonbinary Identities Training – The San Diego LGBT Community Center
2024 – Your Story Matters: Crafting Strategic Narratives for Impact – CenterLink
2024 – LGBTQ Executive Leadership – Stanford Graduate School of Business
2024 – AI Certificate Course for Communicators and Marketers – Ragan
2023 – Managing to Change the World, The Management Center
2022 – Providing Affirming Care for LGBTQ Communities – The San Diego LGBT Community Center
2022 – Elevate Your Content with Compelling Storytelling – BrightTALK
2021 – Stanford Leadership Series, Communication, Influence, and Networks, Stanford University
2021 – Build Back Better: Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations, Stanford University
2020 – Inclusion 360, ion Learning
2019 – Stanford LEAD: Communicating with Impact, Stanford University
2018 – Stanford LEAD: Building Power to Lead, Stanford University
2018 – Power BI Dashboard in a Day, Microsoft
2018 – A Lens Into Exceptional Leadership, Stanford University
2017 – Stepping Up: Becoming a Complete Leader, Stanford University
2017 – Change or Fail: Adapting to & Influencing Change, Gap Inc./
Pro Sci Inc.
2016 – Situational Self Leadership, Gap Inc.
2015 – Agile Passport Training,
Gap Inc.
Gus Hernandez
Proven professional with demonstrated success in planning and implementing communications strategies designed to impact critical business outcomes with internal and external audiences.
Skills
Strategic Communications
Internal and External Communications
Corporate Communications
Employee Engagement
Non-Profit Communications and Marketing
Social Media
Professional Experience
Senior Director, Communications and Marketing
The San Diego LGBT Community Center, 2021-Present
San Diego, CA
Senior Communications Manager
Illumina, 2021-2021
San Diego, CA
Communications Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific, 2019-2020
Carlsbad, CA
Senior Manager, Business Intelligence
Gap Inc., 2015-2018
San Francisco, CA
Communications Specialist
Sutter Health
California Pacific Medical Center, 2013-2015
San Francisco, CA
Volunteer
Stanford Pride
Stanford, CA
President, 2023-2025
Member, Board of Directors, 2021-present
Alamo Square Neighborhood Association
San Francisco, CA
President, 2015-2019
Member, Board of Directors, 2009-2019
Awards
2025 – Stanford Associates Award of Merit
2024 – Certificate of Mayoral Recognition, City of San Diego
2023 – Hillcrest Honors Fabulous Communicator
2023 – Stanford Associates Award of Merit
2020 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Intensity Value Award
2019 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Intensity Value Award
2018 – San Francisco Board of Supervisors Certificate of Honor
2015 – San Francisco Board of Supervisors Certificate of Honor
2015 – Constant Contact Exemplary Audience Engagement Award
2014 – Sutter Health Making a Difference Award
2014 – Constant Contact Exemplary Audience Engagement Award
2013 – Constant Contact Exemplary Audience Engagement Award
2011 – San Francisco Board of Supervisors Certificate of Honor
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