David Corwin and Rodrigo Velasquez: Recipients of the Hattery Family Foundation-Franki Rutherford Memorial Scholarship

David Corwin and Rodrigo Velasquez: Recipients of the Hattery Family Foundation-Franki Rutherford Memorial Scholarship

David is an MAIS graduate student in Women and Gender Studies. He is currently the graduate assistant at Women and Gender Studies Center and LGBTQ Resources Center. This semester, he served as a teaching assistant for WMST 300-05: Pop Culture, Politics, and Participatory Activism: Navigating Race, Gender, and Sexuality in a Media Based Age.

Rodrigo is a Junior, majoring in Communications with a minor in Women & Gender Studies. He works at the LEAD Office and served as a teacher assistant with WMST 308: Introduction to LGBT Studies. Outside the classroom, Rodrigo is a student facilitator with ODIME and an active member of Mason DREAMers.

The Hattery Family Foundation-Franki Rutherford Scholarship Memorial Scholarship recognizes students who are pursuing a minor in Women & Gender Studies or a Master certificate/concentration in Women & Gender studies. Additionally, it recognizes students who are dedicated to issues of social justice and demonstrates a need for financial support and face other barriers to a college education including, but not limited to:

· Being a first generation college student
· Being an immigrant or the child of immigrants
· Being from the “global south” or other areas in which opportunities for higher education are limited
· Being from a low-income family
· Being a student who receives little support from home due to sexual or gender identity