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

Patrick Oathout
Duke University
Philosophy & Public Policy
Flagship
Wells Fargo Scholarship

Kwame Ocran
Hunter College
Philosophy, Politics & Society
Flagship
Emily Odenkirk
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Political Science
BIPOC

Nic Oke
Cornell University
Sociology
Flagship
FedEx Scholarship

Irene Okeke
LaGuardia Community College
Nursing
Community College

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