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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.

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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.

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Point Foundation Scholars

Nick O’Reilly

Wilbur Wright College

Mechanical Engineering


Community College

John Pachankis

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Clinical Psychology


Flagship

Anthony Pacheco

University of Southern California

Applied and Computational Mathematics


Flagship

Alvin O. McCray & Jason M. Rudman Scholarship

El Pacheco

San Antonio College

American Sign Language: Interpreting Track


Community College

Alvin O. McCray and Jason M. Rudman Community College Scholarship

Fer Pacheco

Miami Dade College

Computer Science


BIPOC

Belén Padilla

Scripps College

Psychology


BIPOC

Rellie Padilla

San Francisco State University

Business Management


BIPOC

Belen Padilla

Scripps College

Psychology


BIPOC

Shawn Padley

Madison Area Technical College

Liberal Arts & Women and Gender Studies


Community College

Christopher Sowa Scholarship Recipient

Leslie Pagel-Alcaraz

Illustration, Studio Arts, or Fine Arts


BIPOC

McKenna Palmer

Santa Monica College

Gender Studies


Community College

Kevin Palomo

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Anthropology


BIPOC