Each year Boston College hosts a scholarship dinner in April. Two inspiring students are chosen to speak at the event and this year Naren Briar, an Annexstad Family Foundation Leaders for Tomorrow Scholar, was was one of those students. Despite the dinner being cancelled due to developments surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19), Boston College wanted to give their scholarship recipients an opportunity to express their gratitude to their benefactors. Boston College created a video and showcased the transcripts of the speeches that were to be presented by Naren and fellow student James …
Making a Difference with Leaders for Tomorrow
Focus on a Specialized Scholarship Program: The Annexstad Family Foundation A shared life experience for Cathy and Al Annexstad (’10) is that they are children of single-parent homes created by the untimely deaths of parents. As a result, they grew up watching their living parents’ struggle to give their children the best lives possible. In Al’s case, this meant, in part, putting himself through college. In 2000, Cathy and Al established the Annexstad Family Foundation with the mission of helping bring the gift of higher education to deserving young people. The Leaders for …
Annexstad Scholar Gabrion Johnson Pays It Forward
By Beth Alston At the recent Americus-Sumter High School (ASHS) Band Banquet, the Gabrion Johnson Pay It Forward Band Scholarship was presented to its first recipient — De’Shun Iverson. Johnson was drum major of the ASHS Band in 2015-2016, and a 2016 Honor Graduate of ASHS. He is a junior financial planner major at the University of Georgia. When asked why he started the scholarship, Johnson said, “A lot of my friends and classmates talk about our community and how we want to motivate our kids and how they don’t know about college nor what to expect. They don’t know how to pay for …
Annexstad Scholar Victor Hunt wins NYU-Yale Pitchoff
By Brita Belli On July 12, Victor Hunt ’18 and cofounders Aaron Resnick ’18 B.S., Matt Kim, and Yusuf Olokoba, took home the grand prize at the NYU-Yale Pitchoff for their startup, Astorian, an online marketplace for building owners and contractors to submit projects and bids. The pitchoff is an annual event hosted at New York University in collaboration with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY) and the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute. The event pits three teams from each summer accelerator against one another in a friendly competition. The Astorian team is …
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Kayvon Asemani Recognized as one of the Best and Brightest
University of Pennsylvania Leaders for Tomorrow scholar Kayvon Asemani has recently been selected as one of Poets & Quants's 3rd annual "Best and Brightest Business Majors" from the class of 2018. Kayvon is featured amongst the top undergraduate business majors from 55 undergraduate business schools across the country. Inclusion on Poets & Quants's "Best and Brightest" is a national introduction to America's top business leaders. During his time at Penn, Kayvon has had the opportunity to learn outside of the classroom in both the music industry and in the business world. As a hip-hop …
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