Eight Fil-Am college students earn McDonald’s scholarships
McDonald’s announced this year’s APIA Scholarship recipients, which include eight Filipino Americans.
Since its inception in 2019, the McDonald’s/APIA Scholarship has awarded over $2 million to 150-plus underserved Asian Pacific American students from diverse underrepresented Asian subsegments. The following are this year’s Filipino scholarship recipients:
- Ava Amparo Anderson from Norfolk, Virginia, attending North Carolina State University
- Ilia PavelRezucha from Alameda, California, attending San Francisco StateUniversity
- Jacob AnthonyOlaguir from Albuquerque, New Mexico, attending University of New Mexico
- John Gabriel Espinas Flora from Saipan, CNMI, attending University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- JoshuaUy from Dededo, Guam, attending Santa Monica College
- Raechelle Audrey AguinaldoPidone, from Olympia, Washington, attending Whitworth University
- Ryah Abang fromEwa Beach, Hawaii attending Grand Canyon University
- Ysabel David from Berkeley, California attending Scripps College
Since its inception in 2019, the McDonald’s/APIA Scholarship has awarded over $2 million to 150-plus underserved Asian Pacific American students from diverse underrepresented Asian subsegments.
McDonald’s and APIA Scholars, the leading non-profit organization focused on college scholarships for Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S., joined forces to create the McDonald’s/APIA Scholarship in 2019, aware of the misconception that Asian and Pacific Islander Americans are a monolithic group, which causes some communities to be overlooked, particularly when it comes to financial aid.
