Category: Scholarships
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Heather Atherton
Newman Civic Fellow, Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholar Semifinalist, college student, CCC Luminary Award recipient, mom, and soon paralegal – it seems there is nothing that Heather Atherton can’t do. After graduating high school and having her daughter, Heather worked in the food service industry for more than a decade before she decided she needed…
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Latoya Harris-Pickens
Once Latoya Harris-Pickens earned her GED, she was going to end her education there. The mom of four’s goal had been just to finish her high school education after the home health care company she worked for downsized. Then, a teacher at Kennedy-King College’s Dawson Technical Institute where she had been taking GED prep classes…
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Prishina Coleman
Truman College student Prishina Coleman has had a passion for dance since she was a child – and now she is working on making it a career. As a 2018 graduate of the Chicago High School for the Arts, Truman College wasn’t immediately on her radar. When she learned she could play volleyball and earn…
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Becky Degraffenried
Becky Degraffenried is thrilled to be graduating from Truman College with her Associate of Arts degree at the age of 47, because just a few years ago, she was in a completely different place. Becky is proudly sober three years now, but for the ten years before that, she says simply that her “life was…
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Katherine Pisabaj
From the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, Katherine Pisabaj is the seventh of eight children. Raised by a single mother, once she graduated from Lane Tech High School in 2017, she wasn’t sure how she would pay for college. Lucky for her, one of her older sisters is a staff member at Wright College and let her…
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Naomi Esquivel
Naomi Esquivel always knew she had a passion for helping animals, but it wasn’t until a microbiology class at Malcolm X College that she saw more science-focused career possibilities. She decided she wanted to be a veterinarian, and to be able to make a difference. Born and raised in Little Village, Naomi graduated from Instituto…
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Kimberly Bolanos
Kimberly is the first in her family to go to college and now she is on her way to study computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, thanks to Wright College’s engineering pathway. Always interested in physics, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to study when she graduated from Prosser Career Academy. One of…
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Jesse Ramos
At 23 years old, Jesse Ramos has come a long way from not knowing what he wants to do as a graduate from Antonia Pantoja Charter School – he will transfer from Wright College to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study chemical engineering in Spring 2020. When he learned that he qualified for…
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Chris Petty
Chris Petty graduated from Bogan High School at the top of his class. With his successes in high school, he wanted to attend college and purse engineering, but the cost of college was going to leave him in debt. A part of OneGoal, Chris was then introduced to Daley College and the Star Scholarship. With…
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Deriniece Moton
The opportunity to pursue her postsecondary education as well as compete in intercollegiate athletics led Deriniece Moton to Wilbur Wright College after she graduated from Senn High School on the city’s North Side in June 2017. “By going to Wright, I was able to further my education and play basketball while doing it,” Deriniece said.…