Scholarships valued at $350 each will be awarded to three students at the Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition awards ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at noon, in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room.
The annual competition welcomes student entries, in the form of writing, speaking, drawing, photography and dancing, that express views and experiences with multiculturalism and the celebration of diversity.
Scholarship recipients are Samantha King of Wingdale, a junior Social Work major, whose wrote the essay “Connection;” Tiffani Robinson of Rochester, N.Y., a junior Dance and Psychology major, who developed the video dance “Sequels,” and Tim Highway-Snider of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who has a major in Interdisciplinary Studies: Ethnic and Gender Studies and a minor in Psychology, who created the graphic display “Discrimination is Against the Law.”
“This year, the Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition included incredibly thought-provoking content. Selecting winners was not an easy task for the judges,” said David White, director, Office of Multicultural Support Services.
Students who achieved honorable mention, Aurelie Audant, Israel Ortiz and Josue Petion, will also be acknowledged.
Established at Fredonia in 1989 by Dr. Vivian Garcia through the Fredonia College Foundation, the Rosa Parks Scholarship gives all students an opportunity to voice their opinion on social injustice, cultural perspective and activism.
Ms. Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist in the 1950s whose act of civil disobedience led to the Montgomery bus boycott and was later heralded by Congress as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.”
The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will be both an in-person event and can also be viewed online on Zoom.
