Remarks of the 2025 National Federation of the Blind Scholarship Class

From the Editor: One of the highlights of the board of directors meeting, and indeed of the entire convention, is hearing the members of each year’s scholarship class introduce themselves and share their stories, achievements, and goals. Cayte Mendez of New York chairs the scholarship committee. Here is how she introduced the 2025 scholarship class as the final agenda item of the board meeting on July 10:

Cayte Mendez: Good morning, Mr. President and members of the board of directors. Good morning to everybody in the room and everybody out there on Zoom. All throughout the morning, members of the scholarship class have been sending me text messages letting me know they’re nervous, and I’ve been all, “Oh, it’s okay, don’t stress.” But now I’m up here and I’m nervous. Might have something to do with the fact that I’m six inches from the edge of the stage! Everybody keep your elbows in because one good shove and I’m on the floor! [Laughter] We determine these scholarships based on merit. We don’t consider need. Every year, we receive hundreds of applications. It is a tremendous project on the part of the amazing scholarship committee to winnow that huge pool of applicants to the top thirty. There are so many deserving applicants. So for the thirty of you who are selected this year, it’s really a feather in your cap. And it’s a testament to the academic aptitude you’ve demonstrated throughout your scholastic career and your contributions as individuals and as a community.

For everyone’s informational purposes, the scholarship class is stretched across three banks of seats in the front row here. They’re going to stand up, take about three steps forward, and they’re going to turn around.

This is so that they can be facing the audience rather than having their back to all of you. So, scholarship folks, that’s your cue! [Laughter]

Okay. They were in alphabetical order. Hopefully at the end of this process, they still are, and we’ll pass a microphone. I’ll introduce them first name, last name, home state, school state, vocational goal, and they’ll each have twenty-five to thirty seconds to introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they are as scholars and future leaders. All right, all set to go.

I’m going to—so Tracy took the words out of my mouth earlier, and Tracy reminded everyone in the room to please hold your applause until the end. It’s been a long meeting, we want to hear from these folks, but we need to make sure we do one giant round of applause rather than thirty individual rounds. All right.

Here we go.

So our first scholarship finalist this year is Waseem Aljanazreh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, special education.

Waseem: Good morning, everybody. I’m a person who believes in turning challenges into opportunities, and for a few years, I’ve been dedicated to supporting people with disabilities and students with special needs, not just by teaching, but also by designing awareness campaigns and inclusive materials and advocating for inclusive education and pursuing a master’s degree in education to deepen impact and serve others while growing as an educator committed to lifelong learning. Thank you.

Cayte: Lauren Altman, New Jersey, Louisiana, teacher of blind students.

Lauren: Hello, all, it’s such an honor to be here today. As Cayte mentioned, I’m from New Jersey, I just finished up my bachelor’s and am currently relocating to Ruston, Louisiana, where I’ll be starting at Louisiana Tech in the fall. I’m very excited. I absolutely love to work with students. I love the lightbulb moment that goes off in people’s heads when they learn something new. I can’t wait to continue doing that throughout my life. And I’m also proud to serve as vice president of the National Association of Blind Students. [Applause]

Cayte: Sergio Arguelles, New York, law.

Sergio: It’s a pleasure to speak with you all today. I hope to have a positive impact on society. I hope to bring into law my empathy and compassion. I hope to go into public interest helping underserved communities, especially elderly, disabled people of color, LGBTQ, every underserved community, I hope to just help and bring my willpower and empathy and everything that I can to the table and help out.

Cayte: Izzy Bailey, Maine, Maine, social work.

Izzy: Hi all, I’m so excited to be here today. I’m starting my journey this fall at University of Maine studying social work with a concentration in disability studies. In the meantime, I’m working towards outdoor equity initiatives in my beautiful home state of Maine. As a blind Indigenous woman of color, I feel very empowered by exploring the outdoors. And I think everyone deserves that right.

I am a first-time convention-goer and I’m new to the NFB. I’m new to the blind community, and I feel so empowered by the people I’ve met here and I hope to reciprocate the energy that I’ve found here, and that I’ve found in my identity as a blind woman for the rest of my days.

And I hope to give that back to the NFB as well.

Cayte: So, as you all know, or those of you who attend this meeting regularly, I always like to throw in a few fun facts about the class. This year was an excellent year to be born in October. Seven of the scholarship finalists this year have birthdays in October. I don’t think we’ve ever had seven [offstage noise]—goodness—okay, that was not me falling off the stage, just to be super clear! [Laughter] I don’t know what that noise was, but that was not it.

So this next finalist is, I thought actually that this person was our youngest finalist, but actually he’s not. Kaleb Calhoun, Virginia, Virginia, cybersecurity.

Kaleb: So, hi, I’m honored to be selected as a finalist by the NFB, and this is my first time at the convention. A little bit about me. At age fourteen, I joined the Virginia Department of Blind and Vision Impaired student program, where I gained skills in IT, advocacy, and self-determination. Today I mentor students traveling similar journeys in their vocational skills. Now I’m entering William and Mary College of Virginia this fall as a freshman. I’m excited to keep learning from this amazing NFB community, and thank you.

Cayte: Erin Daley, Colorado, Colorado, assistive technology consultant.

Erin: Hi, everyone, I was one of the luckiest people in the world to be born to a blind father of the National Federation of the Blind. I was raised by a blind single father. I think I was at the convention in ’97 with President Riccobono in Anaheim. But we didn’t cross paths, I was more interested in Disney at that age. I currently serve as secretary of our Denver Chapter. I absolutely love to travel. I did a Braille Monitor piece on my trip to Antarctica. So I’ve been to six continents and I would love to share that passion with blind people. I think that we, you know, now that we have more control of our destiny in this country, we need to explore the world.

I’m looking to become a consultant in assistive technology, because of the discrimination I received by employers. I feel like we can have whatever passion or dream we want, standing here and everyone sitting down.

But if our expectations are raised but the employers are not, that doesn’t help us. I want to go out, build the Federation, build generational wealth for everyone, and give everyone the tools to have whatever dream they want and achieve that goal.

Cayte: Erin, Antarctica is on my bucket list, let’s talk. This year’s class has four tenBroek Fellows. Jacobus tenBroek was our first President of this Federation. If you have won a second National Federation of the Blind scholarship, you’re considered to be a tenBroek Fellow. The first of these is Juna Gjata, Massachusetts, California, content strategy in entertainment.

Juna: Hi, everyone, I went to Harvard for my undergrad and majored in cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Yes, I have never used that a day in my life. After I graduated, I pitched a health podcast to my local NPR station because I was super into fitness. So for six years my job was hosting a podcast. That was awesome, because I love to talk. Last year, I became the senior producer of The Mel Robins Podcast, the number one podcast hosted by a woman in the world, which is really exciting, and this September I’ll be starting my MBA at Stanford and after that I would love to work with the entertainment industry on how people with disabilities are represented in movies and TV shows.

But I truly believe the best parts of my life are outside of work. I love snowboarding, the gym, jiu jitsu, and most of all my ten-pound Pomeranian Pooh Bear.

Cayte: KaShonia Graham, Michigan, Michigan, human services.

KaShonia: I’m from Michigan. I see the delivery guy who often describes himself as a Greek god, so I’m a caramel goddess from Michigan. I want to get students started on their vocational goals. That is my career goal and I’m honored to be one of the scholarship winners. Thank you.

Cayte: Our scholarship class includes people from twenty-four states, including this next finalist, Toby Harnish, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, software engineer.

Toby: Good morning, everyone. I’m so privileged and glad to be picked as one of the scholarship finalists at the 2025 Convention program.

Growing up I faced many discriminations because I was born in an environment where disability is viewed as a problem to society. But ever since I have been introduced to NFB, it changed my life, and I am—I want to use my skills to improve others’ lives as well. So for this fall, I’m going to be majoring in software engineering so that I can create digital solutions that can benefit other blind people.

Cayte: Caitlyn Head, Ohio, Illinois, professor of music.

Caitlyn: Hi, everyone, I just got a notification from my Apple watch that my heart rate is way up, so we’ll see how this goes. [Laughter] I started my undergrad career and spent three great semesters at one college and then moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ideally, I will be the music professor who encourages students regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, because that’s important, whatever it is, that they can do whatever they want. Thank you guys, this is an incredible opportunity.

Cayte: Daniel Hernandez, Arizona, Arizona, clinical psychologist. [Cheering]

Arizona doesn’t follow directions!

Daniel: Good afternoon, everyone, I’m Daniel Hernandez, this is my second time at the NFB Convention. I’m a SAAVI Services for the Blind alumni and a fourth year PhD student. I’m studying clinical psychology to be a therapist, but my ultimate goal is to be a professor as well, doing research and teaching. That’s currently what I’m doing now, going into research. I mean, I hope to, I really really hope to sort of bridge the disparities for students, both blind and underrepresented minorities like the Hispanic/Latino population. And, yeah, those are my goals, and I’m really really grateful to be a scholarship finalist. Thank you so much, everyone.

Cayte: I’m busting Arizona’s chops here, but do remember that at some point we want to eat lunch before division meetings. So please hold applause till the end. Rasheedah Kenner, Kentucky, Alabama, social work.

Rasheedah: I’m an October baby as well. My background is in nursing and music. I lost my eyesight during the pandemic, and it was very traumatizing. I looked for a therapist that I could see myself in, being in Kentucky, and going through everything I was going through. I couldn’t find a therapist. So I thought maybe I should put a change to that and take my previous nursing skills and clinical psychology skills and help other people. Also, getting a master’s in social work, I would love to continue advocating for our community and ADA rights as well too.

Cayte: Noor Khraisat, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, law.

Noor: Is it morning still? Good morning, everyone. I’m Noor—they said not to say my name, sorry, I’m nervous! I’m at University of Pittsburgh studying political science. Everyone I’ve met at convention and commiserated about the elevators with has been the coolest. And no, I’m not just talking about the temperature of the hotel. It’s so exciting to be part of such an incredible organization. I love the NFB so much. Thank you.

Cayte: This next finalist is another one of our tenBroek Fellows.

Students, let’s see how well you follow directions. Gene Kim, California ... [Cheering] … Not well! Massachusetts, computer science.

Gene: Since I found the Federation six years ago, I’ve learned many things: how to plan and execute student seminars, how to design and engineer complex tools. But I’ve also learned that there are many out there who believe that blind people are incapable, broken, and in need of technology to fix us. But we in this room believe that it is respectable to be blind, and because we believe this, I’m going to bring wisdom, the wisdom of the blind-led organization. I’m going to bring the conviction of the blind people’s movement, and the love of my Federation family to MIT, where I will be pursuing my PhD at the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. I’m going to leverage my lived experience as a blind Federationist and the technical skills that I’ve learned at Stanford University to make sure that STEM is accessible to blind people. As long as it is called today, I will make sure we have a seat at the table to influence the technologies of tomorrow. [Cheering]

Cayte: Andrew Lee, Georgia, Georgia, entrepreneur.

Andrew: Hi, everyone, I’m Andrew. Right now I’m studying at Georgia Tech, where I’m pursuing my undergraduate degree in computer science. I had heard about the NFB for a long time, but didn’t actually get involved until about three years ago, when I joined the Student Division, and now serve as secretary for the Georgia Student Division. I look forward to getting much more involved in the years to come. Again, thank you so much for this opportunity, and I’m excited to see what comes next.

Cayte: Earlier, I thought Kaleb Calhoun was our youngest. He’s got a fun birthday, which is April Fool’s. But our next finalist is actually the youngest. Riley Letterman, Michigan, Michigan, music therapy. She’s got you beat, Kaleb, by about three weeks.

Riley: NFB, hello, thank you so incredibly much for this opportunity. I’m beyond thrilled to be here speaking to you today. So for some background, like, about me, I have always been someone who is very precocious, some might say. I have always been the one who will ask questions, who will speak up, and who will fight for what I want.

Which is why, when in second grade, when I developed a stutter, I found it very difficult. And for a number of years, I would shy away from any sort of confrontation, because, well, other people, they were saying the same things, so why did it matter?

But then, as I got involved in more things, dance, music, mock trial, forensics, so on and so forth, I began to face struggles with gaining, like, equal access.

And I realized, in order to create change, in order to fight for what we want, we need people like us at the table, speaking up for people like us. And through my involvement with various leadership, I realized that while being part of a team bigger than yourself, you have a unique voice. Each and every one of you in this room brings something different to the team. And so through that, I discovered that I want to use my voice to inspire others to find theirs. Whether that is sitting at the table as a lawyer, making decisions for people like us and being part of that discussion, or whether that is as a music therapist inspiring others to find their voice, we must speak up. Because we bring so much, and only we can say things in our unique way.

Thank you everyone, so much. [Applause.]

Cayte: Ren Lovegood, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, professor and researcher.

Ren: This is what I imagine it feels like to be standing on the shoulders of giants, which is pretty incredible. I am a rising third-year PhD candidate, studying in the organizations and social change program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. And my research centers on the lived experiences of people with disabilities, how we have historically defined and enacted care, organized mutual aid efforts, and challenged the boundaries of labor value in organizational contexts. In addition to that, my goal is to be a business ethics professor that critiques these dynamics and changes them.

Blindness is everywhere. It’s neither a rarity or an exception, as you have heard from those in my scholarship cohort today.

Thank you for being here.

Cayte: Ryan Lukowicz, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, politics, law.

Ryan: It’s been a pleasure spending this week in New Orleans as a scholarship finalist. I am a rising sophomore at Roger Williams University in a prelaw program, and I got interested in politics during my freshman year of high school when the Rhode Island Department of Education thought it would be a great idea to have an out-of-state vendor come in and we would lay off all the TVIs and O&Ms in Rhode Island. The NFB was part of fighting for the restoration of that funding and the rest of my story is history as I went on to work at the State House, take notes for legislative sessions, and get my own bill passed senior year with the help of my state representative and senator to adjust requirements for people with disabilities taking physical education classes in our public schools. Now, at Roger Williams University, I’m honored to be a student senator as well as chair a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility student council, and I can’t wait to continue to make an impact in my career pursuing something with civil rights law or public policy.

Cayte: Zoe Marsh, Connecticut, New York, O&M instructor.

Zoe: Hello, everybody. So, I am a person who was born legally blind. I lived half in the sighted world, half out. And I tried my best to be in that sighted world as much as I could. So I turned away so many opportunities to learn Braille or JAWS or anything like that. And I just struggled so much to make friends or even have fun, that I just pulled myself apart trying to be in both worlds. But then, halfway through my junior year of high school, I went totally blind, and it kind of saved me, because I was forced to learn JAWS, I was forced to learn O&M, and I walk so much faster than I ever did as a legally blind person! I don’t need extra time on assignments, because I know JAWS. I don’t have to squint at my screen. Now, I am in a gap year between high school and college, and I am attending the Colorado Center for the Blind.

[Cheering] Yup! Which, to those people, I will never forget you guys. I will never let CCB go. But I will also never forgive you for the teasing I get every single day! And the water gun to the butt the other day.

[Laughter] At CCB, we had a lot of fun, but also there’s one main message of Colorado Center, which is take charge with confidence, and that is what I learned when in my second week at the Center, we went to convention, but my instructor, Ernesto DeLuca, said take charge with confidence. I was like, okay, and I went ahead, and said this is the door for this thing and that thing over there! And I have not shut up since. But I’m attending Marymount Manhattan College, a very small school in Manhattan, New York. And I hope to build a family there, and with the New York NFB, just like I did with CCB. And I hope as an O&M instructor to bring services to kids who did not know that they needed them, like I did, and to bring a message of positivity around blindness for everybody around the world.

Cayte: And we’re looking forward to having you join us in New York, Zoe. All right, Kaelyn McColl, Illinois, Massachusetts, medicine.

I want to remind everybody, we do have agenda items, so let’s try to keep it to that thirty seconds.

Kaelyn: I’m blind from birth, a proud blind dog user (my girl is from Seeing Eye), and I came up through the Chicago public school system, and I did not receive services for the majority of my elementary school and middle school career. I taught myself pretty much everything I know. I found that challenging. I had no blind network or blind resources. So in high school, I started a channel, Blind and Scholarly. It’s new. I’m trying to get content up there. It’s a resource for blind students who want resources for math classes, for chemistry, how to use a calculator, for what you should buy for geometry. These are resources, if your school system is not telling you about these things, you have a way of connecting with other blind people to find out this information. Anyway, I am attending Harvard as a freshman in the fall. I plan to earn a double major in biomedical engineering and psychology for premed. I hope to attend medical school and specialize in pediatric oncology or pediatric psychology. Thank you for this honor.

Cayte: Mary Nix, New Mexico, New Mexico, special education teacher.

Mary: Hi, everyone, I’m honored to be here. I’m super scared, but I was literally so happy when I got selected as a scholarship finalist. I remember the day, I was in Target and I got this unexpected call, and I’m like, oh, wow! I was like, I know what to say to one of my mentors; I was so quiet and so excited at the same time. A little bit about me is my first thirteen years of my life, I grew up in India, and I moved here when I was in—moved to the United States. And I had to learn a lot, ‘cause I had to learn a new language on top of blindness skills and a new culture. Because in India, they didn’t have many resources, especially with blindness and everything. So I just had to learn a lot.

Now, I’m actually studying to be an elementary education special education teacher at New Mexico State University. I want to teach other students. I’m super passionate to helping others teaching, and I feel like receiving this scholarship, just being selected as, I feel like I can pass that along to my future students and to show them you can live the life you want, and blindness does not define you. Thank you.

Cayte: Joy Orlando, California, California, clinical psychologist.

Joy: Hello, Federation family. A little bit about me. I started out in a community college setting, and I was put as president of Psi Beta. During my time as president, I went to the Western Psychology Association Conference and was selected to present research on audio description and how our brain reacts when we’re listening to it.

Now, granted, we used sighted people. But the effects of this study were pretty consistent. So, after writing research papers and doing the research and taking statistics twice, I decided very quickly that was not for me. Research is not my field.

So now I am wrapping up my bachelor’s degree at Chico State—go Wildcats!—and I decided I’m going to go into a mentor/mentee field where I want to give back to our community. I want to help adolescents, adults, children, anybody going through a transition like I did where I lost my eyesight later, or you’re losing your eyesight. I wish I had somebody to talk to who was relatable. There are a lot of really good, sighted therapists. But what I’ve consistently heard was, I wish I could talk to somebody who could say I’ve been there too. I’m incredibly grateful to be where I’m at. I’ve learned that persistence and hard work pays off. And I can’t wait to see where I go in my career and where I go with our Federation.

Thank you.

Cayte: Amina Orzueva, New York, New York, law.

Amina: Good morning, everyone, I’m originally from Uzbekistan in Central Asia, and I’m a rising sophomore studying political science and political studies. I’m currently interning at the New York City Comptroller’s Office, and this is my second convention. My favorite part of convention is meeting so many people from different fields doing so many great things. Because when I go back to the real world and someone questions if I can do something, I can always name someone from the Federation who is already doing it, which is definitely helpful. And I would like to thank the board, the donors, and the scholarship committee for your generosity and for setting high standards for all of us. And, yeah!

Cayte: Ghania Oussaci, Texas, Texas, health information.

Ghania: Good morning, everyone. I’m pursuing my bachelor’s degree in health information management, and hoping to get my health information in security and privacy to improve life of the blind community, and also, I believe, to live an independent life with dignity. Thank you so much for having me here today and I’m so excited. Thank you so much.

Cayte: Nicole Quibol, Hawaii, Hawaii, professor of philosophy.

Nicole: Aloha, everybody, I’m a philosophy student at the University of Hawaii West Oahu. I’m passionate about environmental justice, cultural reclamation, and using philosophy to ask big questions, uncomfortable questions, especially those that center around power, identity, and belonging. In Hawaii, we have traditional proverbs or poetic phrases. One that guides me is [speaking Hawaiian], which means, “strive for the summit.” To me, that reflects what the NFB stands for. Not just believing in blind people’s potential, but expecting us to reach the highest peaks. I’m honored to be here with people who live by the same value. It’s your contributions that have allowed us to be here. On behalf of me and my fellow scholarship cohort, we want to thank you guys for this opportunity. Thank you.

Cayte: So our next finalist has given me written permission to refer to her as the class grandmother. Now, that said, she was the one who was razzing us this morning because the students were lamenting that they had to wait to go to bed until the end of the NABS meeting, and she was like, “Really? Well, we should have all gone out.”

[Laughter] So I don’t know if that’s really the appropriate designation for you! Now, this next finalist is also one of our tenBroeks, and in the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you all that she received her first National Federation of the Blind Scholarship when I was five years old, in 1988. Millie Rivera, Maryland, Maryland, biblical counselor.

Millie: Good afternoon, I’m receiving my master’s degree from Moody Theological Seminary in Chicago. I retired three years ago from a thirty-year career with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a lawyer. This is my thirty-fifth convention. Let’s see, I want to thank the board and the scholarship committee and also thank my sisters who are as much a part of the Federation as I am: Eileen and Caroline. I want to thank everyone for believing in me to do another stint at this. Thank you.

Cayte: Emily Schlenker, also a tenBroek Fellow, Kansas, Kansas, pharmacist.

Emily: Hi, everyone, I want to start by saying that the most important thing you should know about me is I’m a tenBroek Fellow because of my Kansas affiliate, because I have been—this is my fourth time in college. I am a three-time college dropout. Because I would start college and the Braille would run out, and I would get my heart broken, and I would leave. And I will tell you that Tom Page and the rest of my affiliate, they held my hand. They’ve listened to me, they’ve carried me, they’ve pushed me and told me to get it together for the last twenty years, and I’m now a candidate for my doctorate of pharmacy. I’m transitioning. I have gone from my three years of class work, which I did all in Braille, by the way, to now caring for patients in a clinical setting. I will do this in multiple rotations, everything from poison control to pharmacogenomics to critical care. Another thing to know about me is I’m tougher than anybody should have to be. I don’t want my fellow finalists to go through what I’ve gone through, and as was said earlier by Ren, standing on the shoulders of giants. So thank you.

Cayte: Mandy Smith, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, foreign service officer.

Mandy: I’m a rising senior at Allegheny College studying political science. I was born legally blind, 20/400 in my left eye, until I lost my sight due to a series of unfortunate events. I never let that stop my dreams. Because myself and everyone here, I don’t believe in barriers. Only in breakthroughs. Thank you.

Cayte: Akliesia Teshome, Maryland, Massachusetts, data consultant.

Akliesia: Good morning, it’s an honor to be here. I’m currently earning my bachelor’s in data analytics from Boston University, and a fellow for the class of 2025. I’m, in addition, involved with the National Association of Blind Students and had the honor and privilege to serve as the co-chair for the content creation and fundraising committee. I want to deepen my understanding of the NFB philosophy, to be more involved in NABS, and it’s such a privilege. Oh, we’re in the city of New Orleans, hello, I’m an LCB graduate! [Laughter] Thank you so much for your time, to the donors, the Scholarship Committee, the board, thank you for believing in me, for seeing the light in me when I couldn’t see it for myself, and thank you for your time.

Cayte: Katiana Elena Urbina, Florida, Florida, content production.

Katiana: As a Latina woman raised in Miami, I’ve always been drawn to the city. That’s why I’ve made it my mission to uncover originality in our communities. I am really passionate about creating stories that amplify, truly amplify humanity, complexity, and nuance in disabled voices. And now I am pursuing media—I’m pursuing a master’s in media and communications studies at Florida State University. To not only shake things up, but also truly champion inclusivity in entertainment and beyond. Above all, I want to make it clear that I’m very aware that I have a purpose in life, and all I want to do is move forward. In conclusion, the only way I can do that is through connection. Thank you.

Cayte: Mr. President and members of the board and everybody in the room and on Zoom, I present to you the Scholarship Class of 2025! [Cheering and applause]

At the convention banquet, each of the finalists received a scholarship in the amount of eight thousand dollars, along with a plaque and other prizes. Many received National Federation of the Blind Scholarships, while others received scholarships funded by and named for those who sponsored them, as follows:

National Federation of the Blind Scholarships: Waseem Aljanazreh, Izzy Bailey, Kaleb Calhoun, Juna Gjata, KaShonia Graham, Caitlyn Head, Daniel Hernandez, Rasheedah Kenner, Zoe Marsh, Mary Nix, Amina Orzueva, and Ghania Oussaci

Howard Brown Rickard Memorial Scholarship: Kaelyn McColl

Jesse and Hertha Adams Charitable Trust Scholarship: Riley Letterman

Alvin J. and Edith R. Domroe Foundation Scholarships: Sergio Arvizu Arguelles and Noor Khraisat

Charles and Betty Allen Scholarship: Ryan Lukowicz

E.U. and Gene Parker Scholarship: Akliesia Teshome

Oracle Scholarship for Excellence in a STEM Field: Erin Daley

Charles and Melva T. Owen Scholarships: Toby Harnish and Katiana Elena Urbina

Marvin and Mimi Sandler Scholarship: Andrew Lee

National Federation of the Blind STEM Scholarship: Emily Schlenker

Dr. Adrienne Asch Memorial Scholarship: Ren Lovegood

Handid Braille Services Scholarships: Lauren Altman and Mandy Smith

JAWS for Windows Scholarship: Nicole Quibol

Jacquilyn Billey Memorial Scholarship: Joy Orlando

American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults Scholarship: Gene Kim

Kenneth Jernigan Memorial Scholarship: Millie Rivera