Talented High School Seniors Nominated for Class of 2013

We are grateful and honored to have high school counselors, college advisors, and other educators from so many top public, private, and parochial schools take the time to recommend so many worthy candidates. The process of choosing the finalists and the eventual scholarship recipients is extremely difficult given how much potential our applicants have already demonstrated at such a young age.
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The Milken Scholars Program provides support for talented young leaders in college and after they graduate. This February, Milken Scholars Alumni will gather together and discuss opportunities for leadership and advancement at the 2013 Milken Scholars Alumni Symposium.
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Equipping talented young men and women with the resources to become "Lifelong Leaders for a Better World" is goal of Milken Scholars Program
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Change can sometimes be a challenge, but 1994 Milken Scholar, Tulani Thomas, is demonstrating that it can also be an opportunity, as she continues to set an example for positive change personally, professionally and in the wider world.
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Spring is in full swing and the Milken Scholars Program has swung into action. As the school year comes to a close, an exciting summer is coming into focus.
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The Milken Scholars Program is always on the go. All across the country and all throughout the year, Milken Scholars demonstrate our program motto: Lifelong Leaders for a Better World. Whether they are in school, or working in their communities or professions, there is always a way to stay connected with each other and with the program.
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Presented by the Milken Family Foundation, the Milken Scholars program includes a $10,000 scholarship and access to a vast network of career opportunities.
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The Milken Scholars Program is always on the go. All across the country and all throughout the year, Milken Scholars demonstrate our program motto: Lifelong Leaders for a Better World. Whether they are in school, or working in their communities or professions, there is always a way to stay connected with each other and with the program.
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Presented by the Milken Family Foundation, the Milken Scholars program includes a $10,000 scholarship and access to a vast network of career opportunities.
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On April 3rd, the Milken Scholars Program lost a dear member of its family. Roanak Valmik Desai was a person who embodied our program motto, Lifelong Leaders for a Better World, in everything he did.
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2008 Milken Scholar, Morris Vanegas, is a true Renaissance Man. He graduated from the California Academy of Mathematics and Science in Carson having compiled laurels in math, science, and history, as well as earning recognition as a National Hispanic Scholar and National Honor Society Member. After entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall of 2008 to study astronautical engineering, Morris continues to further broaden his horizon.
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Milken Scholars Changing the World Around Them

Following a successful summer retreat featuring over twenty leaders in business, public service, the arts, and sciences to help reinforce the theme of Milken Scholars Changing the World Around Them, the Milken Scholars Program is keeping busy this fall and winter, while it is preparing for the selection of the 2010 class to begin this December.
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Equipping exceptional young men and women with the resources to become "Lifelong Leaders for a Better World" is goal of Milken Scholars Program
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This fall, the Milken Scholars Program traveled across the country for campus tours, group dinners and community service. These visits are a chance for program directors and staff to meet with Scholars in groups and individually to offer support, advice or an empathetic ear.

They also provide Scholars an opportunity to maintain contact and support each other throughout the year. In addition, Scholars came together in both New York and Berkeley to spend the afternoon helping others, and this December, we are joining Project Angel Food at their Hollywood kitchen in conjunction with the Los Angeles annual Holiday Dinner, a special evening where Scholars home can gather, reconnect, and discuss the year ahead.
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A number of outstanding high school seniors have been named 2008 Milken Scholars by the Milken Family Foundation, including three valedictorians. Many are the first in their families to go to college. A majority of the new Scholars are children of immigrants, three of whom were born outside of the United States themselves. Each recipient has a record of excellence in academics, leadership and service, and has triumphed over obstacles. Their myriad accomplishments range from creating an organization to combat genocide in Darfur to conducting an intensive multi-year molecular biology study on breast cancer.
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This spring we will be dining in Manhattan, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and taking Scholar-guided tours of schools such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale. We will step out to Berkeley and Stanford and check in with Scholars attending schools throughout Southern California.
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In 1989, 16 students from A. Philip Randolph High School in Harlem, New York were recognized and rewarded with a scholarship that was hardly typical. Mike and Lori Milken decided that a scholarship program should do more than disburse funds. It should bring together students who have managed to perform at an academically high level despite being faced with substantial obstacles, and provide them with resources for success—both tangible and intangible—that would otherwise be out of their reach. They founded the Milken Scholars Program, an initiative of the Milken Family Foundation, to do just that.
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When it comes to the precision of a pose and the art of prose, few young people are as talented as 2002 Milken Scholar, Jalondra Davis.
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Throughout his demanding college and professional career, Kim Foo Chow, MS '96, has never been too busy give back to the community.
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When she isn't attending classes at Loyola Marymount University, Woodrow Wilson High School alum and 2004 Milken Scholar Bonny Taing doesn't like to sit around.

In addition to graduating this summer with a double major in business administration and political science, she has amassed an impressive record of community service, world travel and campus involvement, and no one expects her to slow down any time soon.
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