Zivia Wilson Sweeney

Zivia Sweeney, CPA, is an expert in strategic planning and budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, and accounting and finance operations for manufacturing, healthcare, service, and nonprofit organizations. She has served in senior management roles in public corporate and nonprofit arenas, and has held the of Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance, and Corporate Controller. Professor Sweeney is a PriceWaterhouseCoopers alumnus. She has served for a number of years as a member of the USC Leventhal School’s Accounting Advisory Board.

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of Southern California
• Bachelor of Science (BS) University of Southern California
• Yale University
• Post Graduate Seminar University of Michigan
• University of California, Los Angeles

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

POSITIONS HELD

• Associate Professor Clinical Accounting 2017 to present
• Marshall Diversity Fellow 2019-Present
• Asst. Professor Clinical Accounting 2010 to 2016
• Adjunct Professor Clinical Accounting 2009-2010
• Director Leventhal School of Accounting Summer Leadership Program February 2015 to September 2016
• Chair Marshall Clinical Faculty Committee 2015-2016
• USC-CFA Review Course Instructor April 2016, February 2017, February 2018

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Marshall Deans Community Award nominee April 2021
• USC Office of Student Affairs-Greek Life Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award May 2019
• USC Office of Student Affairs-Center for Black Cultural Affairs Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award May 2019
• Marshall Evan C. Thompson Mentoring April 2018
• Award City of Los Angeles Certificate of Appreciation June 2015 Tree Planting with
• Tree People Vermont Canyon Griffith Park
• Golden Apple Teaching Award May 2013
• Trojan Excellence Award Nominee Center for Black Cultural Student Affairs May 2013
• Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity Faculty Honorary Member Inductee: April 2012
• Gamma Sigma Alpha, National Greek Honor Society Award: recognition as one of
• USC's outstanding professors whom they admire most. March 2012
• USC Parents Association Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring Award-Honorable Mentioned Recipient-Fall 2011
• Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring Award - Nominee Spring 2011
• National Association of Black Accountants Greater Los Angeles Student Chapter
• Certificate of Honor: Spring 2011