Scholarships Celebration Event Program[22]

Mason Endowed Scholarship Alexander Como Jr Elijah Garrett Antique and Classic Boat Society Scholarship TBD Bank of America Endowed Scholarship *Eilane Guzman Qiutrina Miller Nahum Yane

2021-22

SCHOLARSHIP CELEBRATION Seattle Colleges Foundation

Tonight, we celebrate the

achievements of our nearly 400

scholarship recipients They hail

from all around the globe and range

in age from 17 to 65 Their diversity

is extraordinary, but they share a

desire to improve their lives through

education They continue to make us

proud each day.

We also celebrate the donors who made these scholarships

possible It’s heartening and uplift ing to think that because of

your generosity, each year we award over $1M in scholarships

Your contribution transforms and inspires these students

by catalyzing change within themselves, their families, their

communities, and the world.

Finally, a special thank you to the volunteer reviewers

who collectively devoted hundreds of hours to evaluating

scholarship applications Your labor of love will echo for years

to come in the lives of those selected.

Sahra Ali

South Seattle College Student

Kerry Howell

Vice Chancellor for Advancement, Seattle Colleges CEO, Seattle Colleges Foundation

Dr Chemene Crawford

President, North Seattle College

Lakeisha Jones

North Seattle College Student

FEATURED GUEST

Angela Jones, J.D.

Director, Washington State Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Tonight’s Program

Dr Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap

President, South Seattle College

Najwa Alsheikh

Seattle Central College Alum

Dr Yoshiko Harden

Acting President, Seattle Central College

Mokish Farzan

Seattle Central College Student

Dr Shouan Pan

Chancellor, Seattle Colleges The evening will begin at 5:30 and run approximately 40 minutes

Here are the people you’ll hear from (in order):

Academic Achievement in Business

Endowed Scholarship

Che Wei Lee

Markus Ronnie

Airborne Express Endowed Scholarship

*Adrianna Chagdes

*Jerold Paet

Guofang Li

Helen Mehari

Akhtar Cohansedgh Endowed

Scholarship

Bao Tran Vo

*Anna C Mason Endowed Scholarship

Alexander Como Jr

Elijah Garrett

Antique and Classic Boat Society

Scholarship

TBD

Bank of America Endowed Scholarship

*Eilane Guzman

Qiutrina Miller

Nahum Yanez

*Bayview Memorial Adopt Scholarship

Anne Monroe

Colbi Kubo

*Bayview Memorial Endowed

Scholarship

Joshua Rodriguez-Peiser

*Beardsley Family Foundation

Adopt Scholarship

Camille Barrat

Dong Kim

Ben Bridge Scholarship Endowment for Horology

Grant Choi Evan Embrey Russell Fox Jeff ry Williams

Biella Foundation Adopt Scholarship

*Vanna Bun

*Tupou Fifi ta

*Gillian Williams Amanda Capella Rachel Drake Gabriela Greco Jagshakti Jhelumi Emery Rwigamba

Th uan Vo

Bill Morgan Endowed Scholarship

Alessandra Roque

Bob & Evelyn Reutimann Endowed Scholarship

Mozaia Walton

Broadway High School Alumni Foundation Endowed Scholarship

Christiana Akaeke Nahom Alemu Ana Carmela Bungag Ricardo Franca Seble Haile Sidney Hauser Leon Ipaso Hsiaohua Kuan Gelma Mile Eden Okubagebriel Charles Stebbins Sasha Somer Mekdes Teka Ileana Martinez Villada Aracely Viveros Campos Alyssa Williams Kemer Yeman Frezer Yimer

This year’s Seattle Colleges Scholars

* Indicates a scholar/scholarship supported by partners at the South Seattle College Foundation.

Broadway High School Alumni Foundation Endowed – Anne Moldrom Scholarship for Transfer Students

Chala Ahmed

Broadway High School Alumni Foundation Endowed - Florence Lundquist Scholarship for Transfer Students

Rosalia Antonio Caiping Zhu

Broadway High School Alumni Foundation Endowed – Stuart Oles Scholarship for Transfer Students

Uyen Nguyen

Broadway High School Alumni Foundation Endowed - William Wilton Scholarship for Transfer Students

Andrew Tettamanti

Bruce McKenna Memorial Scholarship

Th omas Davis Kelly Mitchell

*Budd Gould and Joey & Vera Ing Endowed Scholarship

Tung Nguyen

*Carl M & Louise C Lovested Endowed Scholarship

Jasmeen Kaur Josephine Kiser

Chancellor Jill Wakefi eld Endowed Scholarship Fund

Emily Stift er

*Charles Hauck Jr Endowed Scholarship

Gillian Williams

Commitment Scholarship (Central)

Ryan Burke Meghan Cornaby Haley Jacobs Edfranz James Leano Tressa Martin Ruby Myers

Th inh Nguyen Mike Sampaga Belul Tesfamariam Peiwen Wu

Completion Scholarship Central

Abdiweli Abdi Celia Berk James Brooker Samuel Gaspar Lar-Mone’t Harris Asha Hassan James Higuera Earmias Hishe Daynon Jackson Joanne Jones Semyung Kim Denis Leclech Semhar Sereke Han Tang

North

Rehana Ali Christopher Barnett Channing Campbell Mebrat Gebrehiwot Siem Ghebreslase Paul Hernandez Socorro Hinojosa Sergei Lewis Nellie Matewere Calvin Olds Stephanie Schmid Lauren Th ompson Zoe Reynolds Tuan Vo Edward Zuniga

*Corrinne & Perry Wing Endowed

Scholarship

Ibrahim Dineh

Costco Diversity Scholarship

Fatima Abidar

Asha Ahmed

Kiros Ballay

Saray Carrada Lopez

Kibrome Feleke

Jacob Gakuo

Chin-Erdene Gantulga

Hamdi Garmela

Remi Hall

Zahra Hassan

Kathryn Hoppins

Paola Jaime

Lakeisha Jones

Lydia King

Lydia Mekonnen

Sophia Mohnani

Amina Nadif

Minh-Th anh Nguyen

Maina Njie

Islam Nurdin Uulu

Jennifer Ocampo

Rupak Pawar

Juana Perez-Guzman

Judith Petumpenyi

Reichelle Anne Robles

Alexander Rystrom

Connie Samuels

Valentina Salai

Nicolaus Seni

Dolma Sherpa

Derreck Smith

Alessandra Souza Lima

*David & Edgar Mitchell Endowed Scholarship

Mansa-Khaliq El Bey Deloitte Scholarship Sanfan Ridhirong Phung Vong

*Deloitte & Touche Endowed Scholarship

Christian Pena

Desmond Jackson Memorial Scholarship

Romelle Bradford Loren Pleasant Mussie Tsegay Christopher Wilson

Dler Ismael Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Th uy Pham

Dorthea Pennington Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Adrian Tunney Romelle Bradford

Dr Charles H Mitchell Fund for Excellence Scholarship

Winifred Abah Natalie Avent-Metcalf Ebrima Banda Reshonna Booker Xiaoru Chen Jonalyn Demirbag Abraham Desta Lauren Dutton Denisse Elvir Zavala

Faith Mutuku Veronika Pshenytska June Rapisura Mohamed Samael Zerihun Sime Edip Ulucay Caelan West-Morga Minghua Yi

Dr Margaret Rust Women’s Diversity Scholarship

Soliha Ma

Dr Peter Ku Endowed Scholarship

Nichole Eidsmoe

Dr Ron LaFayette Endowed Scholarship

TingTing Kim

Drs Mildred & Henry Ollée Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Hawa Jagana

Drs Warren & Rachel Brown President’s Endowed Scholarship

Eft u Wakjira

*Earl & Virginia Cruzen Endowed Scholarship

Anthony Franklin

Education Fund Scholarship (General Student Support) - North Seattle

Rafal Albadri Robert Ayotte Desirae Brownlee Christie Butler Amanda Capella

Zacharias Lerner Beatriz Muniz Kenneth Schumacher Emily Stift er Chikara Sugiyama Wyatt Youngquist Jahan Zaib Ellisandra Zellaney

Eleanor Nazarenus/Nelson Mandela Endowed Scholarship

Doris Beamon Sadia Kalicha Emery Rwigamba Yorsalem Teweldemedhin

* Elmer & Joan Lindseth Endowed Scholarship

Josephine Kiser

*Ernie Pino Memorial Adopt Scholarship

Leandra Dicken

ET Kessler Memorial Endowment Scholarship

TBD

*Fayette Krause Adopt Scholarship

Christine PoorBear

Filipino American Education Endowment Scholarship

Jamaica Ramos

Florence E Galbraith Endowed Scholarship

*Claire Chanard

Food Services of America Endowed

Scholarship

David Baker

Foster Pepper Endowed Scholarship

Ibrahim Hussain

Franklin Micah Wood Endowed

Scholarship

Gabriela Greco

Future Leaders Scholarship for Property

Management Scholarship

Tongzhen Chen

Shun Ng

Taneshaa Prince

Gary Kunis Cisco Network Design

Endowed Scholarship

Myron Curry

General Scholarships - Seattle Central

Abdiweli Ali Abdi

Lisa Batiste

Mikayla Boykin-Clark

Xarah Bracho

Richard Bryant

Michael Dunn

Samantha Franchini

Senait Gebrihwet

Elisa Gutierrez

Th i Kim Hang Nguyen

Morgan Hemphill

Ibrahim Hussain

Tam Huynh

Lilian Kambuni

Alyssa Kellar

Nathanael Kramer

Alexis Lowe

Melodie Marina

Helen Mehari

Qiutrina Miller

Freddy Montiel

Elizabeth Nicodemus

Bach My Tien Nguyen

Eden Okubagebriel

Marquetta Patterson

Th uy Pham Jamaica Ramos Camila Rivera Sanchez Laurice Slaughter Bailey Starkey Loan Tran Amanda Whisler

General Scholarships – North Seattle

Rafal Albadri Robert Ayotte Desirae Brownlee Christie Butler Amanda Capella Grant Choi Mariann Colonna Dagmawi Demissie Stephanie Driver Melanie Escalante Florian Ewing Russell Fox Betelehem Gedefaw Hayley Glantz Zacharias Lerner Beatriz Muniz Kenneth Schumacher Chikara Sugiyama Emily Stift er Wyatt Youngquist Jahan Zaib Ellisandra Zellaney

General Scholarships - South Seattle

Timothy Anderson Christina Molina Valentina Salai Jermaine Smith Samantha Smiley

George & Cleo Corcoran Endowed Scholarship

Kyndra Millsap

George & Irene Neiswanger Business Division Scholarship

Kenneth Schumacher

George T Lewis Scholarship

Evan Embrey

*Glen Cullor Endowed Scholarship

Denise Mitchell

*Group Health Cooperative Endowed Scholarship

Ridwan Hussien

*Hailey Gray Memorial Adopt Scholarship

Dea Jackson

*Helen Jean Malmo Endowed Scholarship

Michael Ballentine Jennifer Bermudez Antuoan Jackson Ayanna Lee Jerold Paet

*Henry F Dambacher Endowed Scholarship

Fernando Alves de Pontes Nhung Ngo

Herman Sarkowsky Endowed Scholarship for Business & Information Technology

Jagshakti Jhelumi

Hisako Nakaya Apparel Design Endowed Scholarship

Elizabeth Nicodemus

Holt W Webster Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Rachel Drake

Horst & Ruby Peschel Family Endowed Scholarship

Jarrett Scott

Hugh S Cannon Foundation Scholarship

Samantha Franchini Alexis Lowe Marquetta Patterson

Inspire Our Future: Cohen Family Scholarship

Laurice Slaughter

*James C Douglas Endowed Scholarship

Peikadae Doeum Sok

James D Hoyt Memorial Scholarship

Alice Cao Paula Mejia Echeverri Nichole Eidsmoe Amanda Elzea-sanderson Amanda Ereth

Andrea Henneman-luglio Susan Huynh

Hannah James Teri Mitchell Megashree Sengar Daniel Snoozy Emily Un

Jennifer Hanson Endowed Nursing Program Fund

Assoumahu Diallo

*Jerry & Linda Hermanson Endowed Scholarship

Ayanna Lee Ream Phou

*Jerry M Brockey Endowed Scholarship

Ezra Bolotin Ross Reynolds

*Jerry M Brockey Endowed Scholarship

Ezra Bolotin

*Jill Wakefi eld Endowed Scholarship

Ariel Doyle

Jim R Medley Endowed Student

Scholarship

Ameer Kiani

John A Barton Endowed Scholarship for

Science

Jahan Zaib

*John E Lein Endowed Scholarship

Jihun Yoon

John Cephas Martin Scholarship

Endowment

Dennis Wei

Nathanael Engen

John & Mary Ann Mangels Endowed

Scholarship

Wyatt Youngquist

John R Sarich, Jr Memorial Scholarship

Jane Hall

*Joseph L Goodwin Endowed

Scholarship

Briana Brinson

Joy Gulmon-Huri Endowed Scholarship

Derrick Knight

*Judy Gray Endowed Scholarship

Chau Luong

Peikadae Doeum Sok

Julia Seelye Memorial Scholarship

Lilian Kambuni

*Keith G & Helen B Massart Endowed

Laura Scudder Nursing Scholarship

Asma Daud Maza Kelbessa

Laurie McCutcheon Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Richard Bryant Mary Easterwood

Leona Hickman Educational Trust

Teresa Shagoury Evelyn Berger Lisa Batiste

Les Dames d’Escoffi er Endowed Scholarship

Hailey Unland

*Lois Tice, Art is Life Endowed Scholarship

Jodie Gurley

Lovett Keiko Moriguchi International Business Scholarship

Dennis Wei

Lu Jiang Women Empowerment Endowed Scholarship

Xarah Bracho

Mano a Mano Endowed Scholarship

Camila Rivera Sanchez

Marjorie I & Michael D Alhadeff Endowed Scholarship

Asmaa Al-awadi Miranda Cox

McLennaghan Education Fund Scholarship

TBD

Melvin Choate Endowed Scholarship

Yulia Mazur

Michiko Prehn Endowed Scholarship

* Hannah Hill Morgan Hemphill Mona Mohamed

* Mitchelli Family Restaurants Endowed Scholarship

Ana Urias

Mollie V Pepper Apparel Design Endowed Scholarship

Bailey Starkey

Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Scholarship

Henry Leach

Muckleshoot Tribal Council Endowed Scholarship

Roman Marquez-Twisdale

*Norman & Betty Beers Endowed Scholarship

Asia Ahmed

Pat Hills Finlayson Endowed Scholarship

Brandon Dombrowsky

Pathways Scholarship

Christie Butler

Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney Scholarship

Dagmawi Demissie

Phyllis A Mayo Memorial Fund Scholarship

Amanda Rogers Joseph Supples Marina Cazares

*Plumb, Level, & Square Endowed Scholarship

Camille Barrat

President John K Aldrich Endowed Scholarship

Brandon Dombrowsky

Professor Sami H Abulhosn Scholarship

Robert Ayotte

Rachel Hidaka Fund Scholarship

Roberta Arnold

Ray W Strand Endowed Scholarship

Elisa Gutierrez

Rev Samuel McKinney Scholarship

Kiros Ballay

Rex Ovena Endowed Scholarship

Maria Cristina Bonifacio

Richard & Martha Weiland Endowed Scholarship for Apparel Design

Laurel Munn

Richard E & Margaret K Baldwin Endowed Scholarship

Rick Barry Fellowship Endowed

Scholarship

*Anthony Franklin

Kyllie Davis

Amanda Elzea-Sanderson

Robert & Evelyn Reutimann Endowed

Scholarship

Mozaia Walton

Roger M Walters Endowed Scholarship

in Woodworking

Oscar Hemmert

Ronald E Ames Scholarship

Autumn Causey

Roy Flores Memorial Endowed

Scholarship

Betelehem Gedefaw

Safeco Business & Finance Scholarship

Endowment

Ndeye Diouf

Blaine Marc Relatado

Safeco Insurance Foundation

Endowed Scholarship

*Christian Pena

*Ibrahim Dineh

*Nannaphat Kaewngam

Michael Dunn

Sarkowsky Family Endowed

Scholarship Fund

Nathanael Kramer

Wendy Bu

Seattle Colleges Foundation (SCF)

Scholarship

Lisa Batiste

Romelle Bradford

Desirae Brownlee

Assoumahu Diallo

Gabriela Greco

Hawa Jagana

Diana Kang Elena Martinez Laura Newton Boris Slyusar Bao Tran Vo

Seattle Colleges Scholarship for Nursing

Chelsea Collier Kadijatou Dukureh Kenia Figueroa Feven Ghide Habiba Idow Aynalem Mengeste Helen Obiechina Loan Tran

Seattle Security Traders Association Endowed Scholarship

Mary Nguyen

*Serena G Lee and Ida S Mar Memorial Endowed Scholarship

Stephanie Sandino-Chang

*Services Group of America Endowed Scholarship

Jennifer Bermudez

Shari D Behnke Endowed Scholarship

Desirae Beedle

Shiao-Yen Wu Endowment Scholarship

Tongzhen Chen

Sinegal Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship

Haruna Abe

Soaring Heart Endowed Scholarship

Jaleesa Johnson

*South Seattle College Foundation (SSCF) Adopt Scholarship

Tarekegn Aboye Asia Ahmed Asmaa Al-Awadi Sahra Ali

Desalegn Asrat Boubacar Bah Miranda Cox Kimberly Dean Mansa-Khaliq El Bey Eilane Guzman Patrick Hayes Ridwan Hussien Dea Jackson Sanguk Jeon Dohoon Kwon Jooyoung Lee Denise Mitchell Bee Moua Nhung Ngo Tung Nguyen Mara Palmer Hanifah Phu Jessamine Pride Juhwan Roh Kristopher Samaniego Phuong To

Hien Vo

*Stephen and Laurie Sparks Endowed Scholarship

David Baker

*Stephen K Rockwood Endowed Scholarship

Briana Brinson

Stepping Stones Scholarship

Mu Reng Chen Shih-Tao Cho

Student Government Leadership Scholarship Endowment

Chikara Sugiyama

Student Leadership Endowed Scholarship

Th i Kim Hang Nguyen

Th e Alice Gautsch Foreman Endowed Scholarship

Derrick Knight

Th e Boeing Adopt Scholarship

James Mahlmeister

Th e Boeing Company Endowed Scholarship

Abdinajib Adan Gada Ahmed Rehana Ali Diego Cano Yin Chan Mokish Farzan Omar Garmela Aleksandra Gibler Pedro Hernandez Boi Hoa Tran Shengjian Lin Yulia Mazur Miri Park Truong Minh Ngoc Pham Tyhrona Townsel Nathan Truong Eft u Wakjira

*Th e Boeing Endowed Scholarship

Desalegn Asrat Michael Ballentine Christopher Brazell Errle Dustin Bautista Patrick Hayes Ngoc Hua Sanguk Jeon Byungwoo Lee Matthew Moulton Enocka Samuel John Wangui

Th e Bruce Lee Foundation Scholarship

Bach My Tien Nguyen

Seattle College Foundation Board of Directors

These Seattle Colleges leaders give tirelessly of their time, talents, and resources as volunteer members of our

Board of Directors.

Th e International News-Mike Alesko

Apparel Design Endowed Scholarship

Tristan Sokol

Th e June & Henry Chen District

Endowment Fund Scholarship

Vien Klett

Th e Space Needle Endowed Culinary

Arts Scholarship

Jarrett Scott

Th e Tommy Fotheringham Memorial

Endowed Scholarship

Freddy Montiel

Th omas Tellini Memorial Scholarship

Alison Booth Gribas

Sabryna McNally

*Titus, John & Kusumam Endowed

Scholarship

Errle Dustin Bautista

*Uber Adopt-A-Student Scholarship

Tarekegn Aboye

Boubacar Bah

Kimberly Dean

Mara Palmer

Kristopher Samaniego

Hien Vo

*United Student Association Endowed

Scholarship

Zulika Ararso

*Vern Gambriell Endowed Scholarship

Syrosslyod Bendico

Wayne & Jean Tice Endowed Scholarship

Mikayla Boykin-Clark Senait Gebrihwet Alyssa Kellar Maya Suzumura Amanda Whisler

Welding Equity Scholarship

Wendy Campbell

*Willard R Rhodes Endowed Scholarship

Christine PoorBear

*William & Margaret Hamilton Endowed Scholarship

Jihun Yoon

*Wunder Family Endowed Scholarship

Ezra Bolotin

Wyckoff Allied Health Scholarship Fund

Vianca Aceves Guerra Biezawit Araya Stephanie Bazan Liya Berhe Abdullah Bilal Anna Budai Taryn Ciardi Helen Fsehatsion Esmeralda Garcia Miguel Garcia Jade Gruhn Jade Gruhn Cherece Holmes Sara Kebede Hasan Mikayilov

CHAIR

Barbara Dingfi eld

Community Volunteer

VICE CHAIR

Jon Fine

Former President and CEO United Way of King County

SECRETARY

Sarah Jane Gunter

Technical Advisor, Worldwide Consumer Business, Amazon

TREASURER

Mike Hughes

Former President, Safeco

Marc Mora, M.D.

SVP, Resource Stewardship and Network Management, Kaiser Permanente and the Washington Permanente Medical Group

Megan Ackaert

Managing Director,

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Melba Bartels

Richard Locke

Principal and Founder, DataWeb, Inc

Rick Davis

Community Volunteer

Will Rance

Vice President of Community Relations, WSECU

Shiao Yen Wu

Owner and CEO, WPI Real Estate

EX OFFICIO

Louise Chernin

Trustee, Seattle Colleges

Dr Shouan Pan

Chancellor, Seattle Colleges

Dr Chemene Crawford

President, North Seattle College

Dr Yoshiko Harden

President, Seattle Central College

Dr Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap

President, South Seattle College

Special Thanks

Angela Jones, J.D.

Featured speaker

Najwa Alsheikh, J.D.

Guest speaker

South Seattle College Foundation

Scholarship underwriting and administration

Seattle Colleges faculty and staff

Scholarship references

Scholarship application reviewers

Volunteers from area companies and others

Jesse Hernandez, Seattle Central College

Online experience consultant

Ty Swenson, South Seattle College

Communications support

Sam Lunsford, Seattle Central College

Logistical support

Seattle Central College Offi ce of Strategic Partnerships

Advisory help

Cameron Karsten, Sam McJunkin and Brad Curran

Videography

Audrey Nezer | Artifex

Graphic design