Scholarship Recipients
We are tremendously excited and humbled to support our cohorts of scholarship recipients. Each one of them shows incredible potential and promise as a future AAPI leader.
Janessa Reyes (She/Her)
UC Berkeley ‘27Janessa will be attending UC Berkeley in the fall. She is a San Francisco native and a leader in the API community at her school. She hopes to continue this advocacy and leadership while in college while studying economics. She wants to give back to her community of the Tenderloin and the Mission district to serve and uplift underrepresented communities of color.
Aria Hossain (She/They)
Macaulay Honors College at City College of New York ‘27Aria will be attending the City College of New York as a Macaulay Scholar and intends to major in Biology with a minor in Creative Writing. Aria is passionate about biomedical research and neuroscience. They also organize for immigration, educational reform and gender-justice with local community-based organizations. During college, Aria hopes to create high school and college-access programs for immigrant youth in NYC.
William Cao (He/Him)
UCLA ‘27William is an incoming freshman at UCLA, where he plans to study Political Science and Economics. During the pandemic, he developed a passion for politics and launched a youth initiative aimed at helping students get more involved with current events and journalism. In his free time, he enjoys baking, discovering new music, and going on walks around the city.
Jaylyn Cha (She/Her)
Princeton ‘27Jaylyn is passionate about mental health. Having experienced the effects of it’s stigma firsthand, her mission is to change the conversations in her community. She plans to study psychology and continue advocating for Asian Americans.
Shan Villanueva (She/Her)
UCLA ‘27Shan will be attending University of California, Irvine in the fall to study Social Policy and Public Works and continue her passion in helping out with the community and student government. There she wishes to continue her passion in elevating AAPI voices and helping unite Filipino American individuals.
