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2024 College Bound Scholarship

Andy Shen, San Luis Obispo, CA, Stanford University

Arthur Murray, New York, NY, Vassar College

Charli Strawn, Glencoe, AL,  Auburn University

Jack Lamson, Cato, NY, Rochester Institute of Technology

Jamila Conde, Bronx, NY, NYU College of Arts and Science

Lynn Wu,* Las Flores, CA, Stanford University

Madeline Mau, Plainsboro, NJ, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Mercy Rao, Columbia, MD, Elizabethtown College

Patrick Flaherty, Austin, TX, The University of Texas at Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering

Raveena Alli, Atlanta, GA, ­­­­­­Georgia Institute of Technology

* Recipient of the Dr. Neil S. Patel Memorial Scholarship

2024 Graduate School Scholarship

Angelica Martini, Atlanta, GA, Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business

Arie Farnam, La Grande, OR, Eastern Oregon University

Bhavya Shah, Stanford, CA, Stanford University

Kamran Vora, JD, Plano, TX, Texas A&M University School of Medicine

Ronak Patel, Baltimore, MD, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Treasa Praino, Morris Plains, NY, Syracuse University

Past Scholarship Recipients

I yearn to pay forward at the support of Lighthouse Guild by empowering future generations of blind students to strive for lives filled with opportunities and curiosity.”

Andy Shen, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

I hope that, through becoming a lawyer, I can add a disabled perspective to a field that is often quite harsh on people like me."

Arthur Murray, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

Adversity is the fuel that has driven me to be the person I am today. As the first and only blind student at my rural high school, I am used to facing challenges, problem-solving, and paving the way for others. I have excelled in challenging classes that would have been almost impossible for a blind student to access just a decade ago.”

Charli Strawn, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

Living with impaired vision will likely be different in college than it was for me in high school. I am learning to advocate for my own needs and accommodations that lessen the barriers to my educational and personal goals."

Jack Lamson, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

I wholeheartedly believe that obtaining higher education will better prepare me to serve my community."

Jamila Conde, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

The Lighthouse Guild scholarship truly means the world to me because it allows me to pursue my passion and dreams in college of inventing software and devices to empower different disadvantaged communities around the world.”

Lynn Wu, 2024 Dr. Neil S. Patel Memorial Scholarship Recipient

Through higher education, I hope to become a better musician, music educator, and product designer, both uplifting musicians in my community and creating accessible music-making devices and materials. Through understanding the experiences and needs of disabled musicians like myself, I realized that I want to improve how we experience musical spaces."

Madeline Mau, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

This scholarship award will go toward some of the tuition and allow me to focus more on my studies than worrying about the cost of attendance."

Mercy Rao, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

This scholarship means more than just helping me get an education. It will help me massively, both in ease of mind of the expenses directly related to college, and the expenses related to the transition from high school to college.”

Patrick Flaherty, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

I remain captivated by connection through service and the hope of being able to make a difference with big problems, one person at a time. My goal is to pursue Public Policy and Human Rights Law to continue to scale the small changes I am making now into more sustainable and equitable policy change.”

Raveena Alli, 2024 College Bound Scholarship Recipient

My journey is a testament to overcoming adversity, showcasing my dedication to addressing misconceptions and advocating for disability inclusion in the workplace. My immediate and long-term career mission involves actively promoting respect for individuals with disabilities and their valuable contributions to organizational success.”

Angelica L Martini, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

The scholarship will certainly help me to complete my education. With that degree I will be able to teach at the university level, as well as to publish, and I hope that through publishing I can help to empower people with vision impairments and other types of disabilities."

Arie Farnam, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

Whether it is through debunking the sixth sense myth with sass on my blog, or by excelling in precisely those activities that people say are 'too visual' for me, my desire to correct mistaken beliefs and exceed expectation lives on."

Bhavya Shah, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

I made the decision to pursue a profession in medicine … [During] this time, I lost the majority of my vision and became legally blind. I personally experienced the incredibly challenging journey of accessing healthcare to find a diagnosis as an uninsured patient, continuously re-learning how to approach routine tasks, confronting social isolation, and an entire slew of similar challenges related to legal blindness.”

Kamran Vora, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

This Lighthouse Guild scholarship will help me pursue my dreams in a top ranked MBA education and it will help to cover tuition expenses, but most importantly it will help me to further build community and network amongst the Lighthouse Guild community."

Ronak Patel, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

This award is actually going to help me fund my research in South Africa as I’ll be conducting my dissertation over there this summer and the monies will help me afford my flights, my transportation while I am abroad, translators, and people to transcribe interviews."

Treasa Praino, 2024 Graduate School Scholarship Recipient

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