Wendy Kwok ’99

Wendy Kwok is a principal at Sunstate Development LLC, previously serving as a member attorney for the California Legislative Counsel Bureau. In 2011, she established an endowment to create the Wendy W. Kwok Research Scholarship, now known as the Springboard Eureka! Scholarship. The award enables passionate UC San Diego undergraduate biology students to pursue their innovative ideas in a quality environment with formal guidance and immersive laboratory experiences. She also created the Springboard Eureka! Hong Kong scholarship in 2017, which enables UC San Diego undergraduates to travel to Hong Kong for research studies, and international students from Hong Kong to pursue biomedical research at UC San Diego.

Wendy serves on the Birch Revitalization Advisory Board and the Dean’s Leadership Council for the Division of Biological Sciences.