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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

Gregory Payton

Columbia University

Clinical Psychology


Flagship

Merle Aronson Point Scholarship

Diego Paz

Columbia University

Data Science


BIPOC

Malaika Pedzayi-Ferguson

Pace University

Acting


BIPOC

Izzy Pellegrine

Mississippi State University

Sociology


Flagship

Nickole Penaloza Barros

Queensborough Community College

Business


BIPOC

Valli Pendyala

Georgetown University

International Political Economy


BIPOC

Kassidy Penso

Los Angeles Trade Technical College

Fashion Design


Community College

Victoria's Secret & Company Scholarship

Stevan Perea

Santa Monica College

Political Science


Community College

Megan Perez

Front Range Community College

Science


Community College

Jordan Perkins

Western Washington University

Environmental Chemistry


BIPOC

Brandon Perkovich

Harvard University

History of Science


Flagship

Ari Peró

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Urban Studies and Planning, Music


Flagship

Synchrony Foundation Scholarship