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Scholarship Recipients

W. Bill Williams Trailblazer Scholarship

 

2025 Scholarship Winners


Camila Rosales
Loyola University
Goals – Finance; passionate about comic art, painting, and music.

Morgan Ellis
Siena Heights University
Goals – Nursing and culinary arts

Rihanna Thomas
University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 2025
Goals – Architecture and visual arts

2024 Scholarship Winners


Mikayla Butler
University of Louisville
Goals- Biology Pre-Medical track, minor in Women & Gender studies

Nathan DeLoach
Howard University
Goals – Studying Psychology; hopes to attend medical school to become a psychiatrist

 

Jim Reilly Awards

 

2025 Scholarship Winners


Ozivell (Oz) Eckford
Northwestern University, 2nd-year PhD student
Goals -Transformative arts education, learning sciences, and the role of interdisciplinary arts in community healing and empowerment

Yetunde Oluwu
Malcolm X College
Goals- Nursing and healthcare

Aanicia Sutton
Chicago State University
Goals – Accounting, leadership, and mentoring through the Army Reserve and ROTC

2024 Scholarship Winners


Chaitanya Kumar Vepareddygar
Governor’s State University
Goals- Master of Science in Business Analytics

Jermal Ray
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Goals- Business Administration & Management, Architecture/Psychology
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