YUWO Scholarship awards six women in the Yale community

Scholarship winners are (left to right) Lonnette Diggs, Bayla Arietta, Stephanie Alderman, Suzana Mutic, Kierra Jackson and Colleen Maguire.

The Yale University Women’s Organization has announced its annual scholarship awards to six women in the Yale community for the 2019-2020 academic year.  This year’s recipients are recognized for their continued commitment and dedication to pursuing their academic careers in spite of difficult delays and interruptions during the course of their lives. Scholarships totaling $25,000 were awarded to Kierra Jackson (Kay Ross Scholarship); Bayla Arietta (Magee Fenn Scholarship); Suzana Mutic (Gustave and Carol Lynn Sirot Scholarship); and Stephanie Alderman, Lonnette Diggs and Colleen Maguire (YUWO Annual Scholarships). The awards support each recipient’s academic career development in a variety of areas that includes nursing, applied laboratory science, museum collections management, healthcare management and business administration.

The YUWO Scholarship Program has awarded scholarships totaling over $427,000 since its inception in 1972. The program helps Yale-affiliated women whose formal post-high school education has been interrupted or delayed, and who wish to continue their studies at a college level or certificate program. Awards in recent years have ranged from $1000 to $6500 for the academic year. For further information, visit the YUWO website.

As their stories reveal, the women receiving these scholarships have worked extremely hard to raise their families, find their own professional career paths, and address the many challenges and obstacles that temporarily delayed or interrupted their education.  They represent the very core of the mission for scholarships offered by this supportive organization, and we wish them all success as they move toward their own, and well deserved opportunity for professional development.

Sandra Greer, YUWO Scholarship Committee