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

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