by Perla Salazar-Rangel | May 3, 2024 | Scholars
What does the Kessler Scholars Program mean to you? The Kessler Scholars Program has been nothing short of transformative for me during my undergraduate years at the University of Michigan. This program has been a major source of community and provided me with a space...
by Perla Salazar-Rangel | May 2, 2024 | Scholars
What does the Kessler Scholars Program mean to you? Being a Kessler Scholar here at Hopkins has truly enriched my experience, not only by allowing me to form a community with like-minded individuals who have the greater Baltimore community at the forefront of their...
by Gail Gibson | May 2, 2024 | Scholars
What does the Kessler Scholars Program mean to you? The Kessler Scholars Program, especially at Queens College, is a community for me. Queens College is great, but being a commuter school, it doesn’t always give me a sense of belonging. With the Kessler Scholars...
by Perla Salazar-Rangel | May 2, 2024 | Scholars
What does the Kessler Scholars Program mean to you? In high school, I received a letter that said I’d been selected to be a Kessler Scholar. There was nothing on the Syracuse University website yet about being Kessler Scholars because we were the inaugural class. My...
by Perla Salazar-Rangel | May 2, 2024 | Scholars
What does the Kessler Scholars Program mean to you? The Kessler Scholars Program has truly made Cornell feel like home. Not only is it a group of students and staff who care about each other and can relate to each other, it is an opportunity to start college...
by Gail Gibson | May 15, 2023 | Scholars
Sometimes a snap decision, born from a brief window of free time, can change the trajectory of one’s life. For Kessler Scholar and 2023 University of Michigan graduate Herik Garcia, that moment came during his senior year of high school in tiny Hartford, Michigan,...
by Gail Gibson | May 15, 2023 | Scholars
In fall 2019, Argentinian native Olivia Gurfinkiel entered Cornell University as a first-year, first-generation college student, uncertain of where the next four years would lead her. This spring, Olivia and 15 fellow seniors from the first cohort of Kessler Scholars...
by Gail Gibson | May 15, 2023 | Scholars
When she joined the first cohort of Kessler Scholars at Johns Hopkins University in 2020, Lubna Azmi did not foresee the breadth of impact this program would have on her postsecondary experience. She quickly found that the Kessler Scholars program afforded her access...
