Meet Our Scholars
Point Foundation is a champion for access and success in higher education. Since our first class of 8 students in 2002, Point’s class size grew past 570 students for the 2023-24 academic year. Among our Flagship, Community College, and BIPOC Program Scholars, more than half are first-generation students, 82% identify as people of color or bi/multiracial, and nearly a quarter identify as transgender or nonbinary.
Below, you can meet our Flagship Scholars, students who are earning their undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degrees.
Point Foundation Scholars
Michael Arellano
Western Michigan University
Dance/Behavioral Science
Flagship
Mateo Arevalo Ortega
University of California, Los Angeles
Film Production
BIPOC
Melissa Arizola
San Joaquin Delta College
Psychology
Community College
California Endowment Scholarship Recipient
Sofia Arlen
Yale University
Economics
Flagship
Barbara Epstein Scholarship
Erin Armstrong
Mills College
Political, Legal and Economic Analysis
Flagship
Aaron Arnold
University of Pittsburgh
Sociology
Flagship
Time Warner Scholarship
Alexis Ask
Bunker Hill Community College
Psychology
Community College
David C. Kleiman Scholarship
Ishan Asokan
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Medicine
Flagship
Janssen Therapeutics Scholarship
Claudia Astorino
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Anthropology
Flagship
Ezra Athar
University of Arizona
Biomedical Engineering
BIPOC
George Aumoithe
Bowdoin College
History and Africana Studies & Gay and Lesbian Studies
Flagship
Desmine Austin
Langston University
Science and Nursing
BIPOC