Category: Luminary Award
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Stephanie Maltos
Stephanie Maltos is a fierce leader both on the Daley College campus and in the surrounding community. Balancing her academic career and involvement on campus, she founded the Undocumented Students & Allies Club and is part of the Student Government Association. Her volunteer work includes registering voters, facilitating food distribution at the food pantry on…
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Nouha Aleem
Senn High School alum and Star Scholar Nouha Aleem is the definition of an engaged student, but she wasn’t always that way. “When I first came to Truman, I was really quiet and shy. I was nervous to get involved in any clubs or groups.” That changed as she forced herself to be more outgoing…
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Cordelro Medley
Cordelro Medley enrolled at Harold Washington College to pursue an education that would help him help others. Having faced many challenges in his life, including child abuse, there was a time that he couldn’t see much of a future for himself. However, with the support of his grandmother, siblings, and friends, he turned his life…
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Bryn Horton
Bryn Horton has taken his challenges, converted them into inspiration, and made them the fuel with which he serves others. Bryn lost his sight to gun violence in 2013. His painstaking recovery required 15 surgeries in less than a year. Physical therapy lasted long after that. Bryn has taken his experience and used it to…
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Maria Trujillo
Overcoming addiction and homelessness herself, Maria Trujillo knew she wanted to be able to help the people in her community. Now studying at Wright College to earn her associate degree, Maria started her higher education path by getting certificates in medical administrative assistance and in addiction studies. Always involved on campus, Maria is a DACA…
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Dr. Hamed Sarwar
In the spring of 2018, Dr. Sarwar received the faculty/staff Luminary Award at Harold Washington College. Dr. Hamed Sarwar works hard to ensure his biology students don’t just learn the material sufficiently to pass and move on to more advanced courses, but that they are able to understand how biology is a part of their…
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Angela Cotromanes
Angela Cotromanes, Truman’s education department chair, teaches classes in both education and child development. Angela works hard to help her students see their full potential, encourages them not to shy away from challenges, and supports them as much as possible. It is obvious that she loves what she does. One of her students says, “Angela…