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.