2023
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Jayleen Hang
Edison Senior High School
$1000
“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.”
-Gusteau, Ratatouillee
Pachia Xiong
Luther Burbank High School
$500
“Life is not like water. Things in like don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
-Haruki Murakami.
Anthony Xiong
Schools of Engineering & Science
$500
"Never settling, but setting every goal high."
-Nipsey hussle
2022
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Anthony King Hang
Aspire Benjamin Holt College Prep Academy
$1000
"Live your life with intention, go out there and make a difference, by being the difference"
- Melanie Koulouris
Tidus Chue Thao
Cesar Chavez High School
$500
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value”
- Albert Einstein
Jacinda Pajchia Lee
Weston Ranch High School
$500
“Be focused. Be determined. Be empowered.”
- Michelle Obama
2021
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Mai Her
SECA
$1000
"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."
- Confucious
Choua Thao
SECA
$500
"Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can."
-Arthur Ashe
Kaylynn Her
Sheldon High School
$500
"All we have is now."
-Unknown
2020
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Darling Yang
SECA
$1000
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
- Coco Chanel""
Brittany Vang
Weston Ranch High School
$500
"Goal: To make an income while making an impact."
-Unknown
Bryan Lor
Edison Senior High
$500
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
2019
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Wa Chang
SECA
$1000
"Humanity is Greater than Status."
- Unknown
Khelsey Her
Ronald McNair High School
$500
"Today can rain, tomorrow will shine."
-Unknown
Kou Vang
SECA
$500
“Like wild flowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
- Unknown
2018
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Alyssa Vang
Sheldon High School
$1000
"Take the sourest lemon life has to offer and turn it into something resembling lemonade."
- This is Us
Cristy Yang
Monterey Trail High School
$500
“You need an attitude of service. You’re not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.”
- David Green
Hazel Thao
Ronald McNair High School
$500
“Challenges are what makes life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
- Joshua J. Marine
2017
Uplift the Human Spirit Scholarship Recipients
Mary Vang
Weston Ranch High School
$1000
David Yang
SECA
$500
