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 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

Nic Oke
Cornell University
Sociology
Flagship
FedEx Scholarship

Dominic Okonkwo Jr.
Nursing
BIPOC

Elise Oleksiak
LaGuardia Community College
Occupational Therapy
Community College
Lands’ End Scholarship

Christina Olivares
Columbia University
English Education
BIPOC

Nicholas Orozco
UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program
Medicine
Flagship
Minton-Spidell Point Scholarship

Alma Orozco
Colorado State University
Women and Gender Studies
Community College
Alvin O. McCray & Jason M. Rudman Scholarship

Casey Orozco-Poore
Harvard University
Education
Flagship

Alexis Orr
Virginia Commonwealth University
Psychology
BIPOC
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