*The Residing Legends Basis (LLF) expands its music scholarship packages to African American college students at Traditionally Black Schools and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominately White Establishments (PWIs) who studied throughout the 2022-2023 college time period at George Mason College, Pomona Faculty, Hampton College, College of Southern California, and Yale College. Based 32 years in the past, the LLF is presenting $2,000 scholarships to every of 5 well-qualified recipients. Earlier scholarships by the inspiration have been introduced to Texas Southern College and Shaw College, amongst others.
“This yr’s Residing Legends Basis Scholarship and Awards recipients replicate the group’s mission and function,” says Shannon A. Henderson, board member, and scholarship and awards co-chair of the Residing Legends Basis. “Every of the 2023 college students has earned this distinct honor of recognition. The scholarships are supplied to boost their instructional journey.”
Amongst this yr’s scholarship recipients is George Mason College freshman Cheyenne DeGross, who’s a communication main with a 3.8 GPA and an anticipated commencement date in 2026. She has interned at WJLA-TV in Arlington, Virginia, and is a broadcast trainee at Mason Cable Community in Fairfax, Virginia. “My profession purpose is to acquire employment quickly after I go away faculty,” says DeGross, the president of the Tartans Minds Matter Membership, the place she served as a volunteer and neighborhood service employee. “I took a journalism class in my sophomore yr of highschool and fell in love. This led me to take an internship at WJLA-TV for my highschool’s senior undertaking. It was a fantastic alternative the place I acquired to study broadcast information.”
Freshman Jazzmin Duncan, a media research main at Pomona Faculty in Claremont, California, has a 3.4 GPA and an anticipated commencement date in 2026. She is a contributor to The Publish Newspaper of Galveston County in Texas and has been printed in Mild and Shadow Literary journal. Her Congressional Awards embody a Bronze Certificates. As well as, Duncan was named a Questbridge Scholar and is a recipient of a Scholastic Artwork and Writing Award. “I want to share the cathartic sensation of being heard, by video journalism particularly. In an business rising extra digital, I plan to market myself as an up-and-coming digital media and tradition journalist, documenting the strong underbellies of society, bodily and digital,” Duncan explains. “My final purpose is to say one thing for the individuals who can’t and to assist others discover their phrases. Whereas persevering with to work in direction of change on behalf of underrepresented residents in my neighborhood, I hope to create an exquisite cacophony of tales, telling mine and opening the doorways for others to do the identical.”
Freshman Jordyn Kaila Isaacs is a journalism main at Hampton College, in Hampton, Virginia, the place she can be on the Dean’s Record with a 3.34 GPA. She is a author and reporter with Hampton’s WHOV-TV, a workers author with Hampton Script newspaper, and a reporter for the college’s radio station, WHOV-FM. “My management expertise have allowed me to make a constructive affect at Hampton College,” says Isaacs. “I’ve discovered that it’s okay to continuously try to be higher as a result of the sky’s the restrict. By striving for greatness, you’ll be able to set an instance for others round you. Leaders encourage individuals and inspire them to carry out at the next stage whereas embodying firm values and tradition.”
Maximillion Shearod is a Cognitive Science main with a deal with Musical Cognition at Yale College. He has a 3.73 GPA and an anticipated commencement date in 2025. He was an intern and mentee with Power2Inspire and a programming assistant with Silence The Disgrace. He’s a Gates Scholar, Ron Brown Scholar, Jack Kent Cooke Basis Faculty Scholar, and a Questbridge Nationwide Faculty Match Finalist. “I’ve discovered that music performs a big position in psychological well being, which piques my curiosity,” says Shearod. “The mind is the important thing to what makes music vital to not solely us as people, however your entire tradition, and I need to delve into the music business whereas I study extra about these matters.”
Junior Joshua Wilson of the College of Southern California is a Common Music Efficiency main with a minor in Sports activities Media. His anticipated commencement date is Could 2024. For 4 consecutive semesters, he has made the USC’s Dean’s Record. He has labored as a roadie and journey assistant with The Love Music Group, LLC, and as an intern with VGN Bae Music Studios. His volunteer and neighborhood work included a job as a pupil ambassador on the USC Thornton Faculty of Music. He participated in a recent widespread music examine undertaking in London; has carried out in a 60-member choir with Pentatonix on the Hollywood Bowl; and has additionally carried out a musical tribute to a number of Grammy Award-winning recording artist Babyface. “For so long as I can bear in mind, I’ve been aware about and part of music creation,” says Wilson. “The enterprise of music and leisure is woven into the material of my on a regular basis life. I consider what I’ve is a distinguishable backdrop for my want to be within the leisure business in addition to a front-row seat to the hunt to create music whereas navigating the fluid terrain of the business.”
The LLF’s Henderson provides that the brand new cohort of scholarship recipients represents a constructive growth and course for the scholarship program. “Every recipient demonstrated integrity, revolutionary pondering, and the strategic capabilities to perform their life-long targets to reach the leisure business,” she notes. “It’s obvious that these younger college students are nicely on their approach to turning into future emulators in a world society that expects imminent success and to maneuver the essence of the Residing Legends Basis ahead. We salute this yr’s awardees and congratulate them individually and collectively.”
“Lots of our board and advisory board members have attended traditionally Black Schools and Universities or Predominately White Establishments,” concludes David C. Linton, the Chairman of the Residing Legends Basis. “As alumni, we’re proud to pay it ahead to the brand new generations of music and leisure professionals. Our targets within the subsequent 5 years are to extend our fundraising efforts and to arrange interactive mentorship alternatives for the scholars to replicate the ever-evolving adjustments in know-how.”
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