Here is the winning essay: Hi, my name is Daniel Hewitt and I am a father of two teenage girls, ages 17 and 15. I have custody of them during the school weeks. It has been a challenge to raise them by myself especially when going through a divorce (2021) and during a pandemic when both children were fully remote at school during 2020. My greatest strengths are patience, … [Read more...] about 2022 Winner of The Honorable Eugene H. Austin, J.S.C. Scholarship
Spring 2023 Scholarship Winner: Michael Higham
Michael's winning essay: Thank you for your consideration of my scholarship application. First, a little bit about my personal history. My given English name is Michael Allen Higham and my birth name was Andre Kononov. I was born in Tyumen, Russia during the transition of communism to democracy during the late 1990’s. My birth parents were unable to care for me as they were … [Read more...] about Spring 2023 Scholarship Winner: Michael Higham
Spring 2024 Scholarship Winner: Mark Reid
Mark's winning essay: In September of 2021 I moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Denison University in Granville, Ohio with a BA in environmental studies and international studies. I began working at a local plant nursery to gain horticultural knowledge of the region, and started to better understand some of my strengths and weaknesses. I had to adapt to a completely … [Read more...] about Spring 2024 Scholarship Winner: Mark Reid
Fall 2022 Scholarship Winner: Jordyn Tye
Jordyn's Winning Essay: At age six I was forced to “grow up”. While sitting on the carpet of multicolored squares in my 1st grade classroom, nervously unravelling the stitching of the rug, and trying to recall the letters of the alphabet, my peers were shouting out the letters in order and reciting the rhymes that marked the end of the school day. Instead of joining them, I … [Read more...] about Fall 2022 Scholarship Winner: Jordyn Tye
Spring 2022 Scholarship Winner: Sato Maeda
Sato's winning essay: "Since I was little, I have constantly moved around the world because of my parents’ jobs. Consequently, I have lived in a variety of places including Bangladesh, Japan, Indonesia, Switzerland, and the US. My entire life is the airplanes, the suitcases, the passports, the new schools, friends, cultures, etc. The experiences I had at each of these … [Read more...] about Spring 2022 Scholarship Winner: Sato Maeda
