Eva Sevcikova

Eva Sevcikova has been serving as Executive Director of the CSUDH Philanthropic Foundation and Interim Vice President for University Advancement since July 2022. She has joined the Toro community as CSUDH’s Associate Vice President of University Advancement in October 2021. Previously, she worked at her alma mater, Whitter College, for eight years. As a member of their advancement team, most recently as Vice President of Development, she led the areas of major gifts, annual giving, planned giving, donor relations, advancement services, and foundation relations. Prior to her role at Whittier, Sevcikova spent nearly 10 years working for a NASDAQ-traded company as part of a corporate communications and investor relations team.

A first-generation college graduate born and raised in what is now Slovakia, Sevcikova first arrived in the U.S. with a cohort of Eastern European high school students who earned fellowships from the Open Society Foundation after the fall of communism.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Whittier with a self-designed double major in the Whittier Scholars Program. She also holds a public relations accreditation (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and a certificate in education entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.