Koshland Young Leader Awards

Koshland Young Leader Awards

By recognizing the next generation of leaders in our community with these awards, we hope to encourage these young people to continue on their path to leadership.

The Koshland Young Leader Awards, a scholarship program established by Dr. Daniel Koshland, Jr., provide financial assistance to college-bound San Francisco public high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Koshland Young Leadership Award recipients are high school students who are highly motivated to achieve despite facing formidable challenges in multiple aspects of their lives, such as economic and family responsibilities. They embrace a commitment to supporting their families and communities. It is our hope that the Koshland Young Leader Awards will allow the recipients to focus more on their studies, thereby improving their chances to succeed academically and to pursue their career goals. This is the 17th year these Awards will be presented.

Up to eight San Francisco public high school juniors will receive a two-year award of $7,000 to be used for education-related purchases. Examples of acceptable uses of the scholarship include: academic test fees, computers, books, and supplies for classes.

Nomination Process

Each winter, we invite teachers and counselors to nominate outstanding San Francisco public high school juniors for this award. The 2010 nomination process is now closed. We will be accepting nominations in early 2011. For more information, please contact Tiffany Price at tjp@sff.org or Kristen Angel at 415.733.8585.

Selection Process

Each spring, we invite teachers and counselors to nominate outstanding San Francisco public high school juniors for this award. The 2010 nomination process includes the four parts outlined above. Nominations are then vetted by a committee comprised of San Francisco Foundation staff and Koshland family members. Students selected as finalists are interviewed at the Foundation. Winners will be contacted in May.

2010 Koshland Young Leader Awardees

Guests at 2010 Koshland Young Leader Awards celebration.

We are excited to announce our 2010 Koshland Young Leader Awardees:

• Oscar Alfredo Figueroa-Flores, June Jordan School for Equity
• Emalata Paea, June Jordan School for Equity
• Noe Rivas, Mission High School
• Moneace Smith, June Jordan School for Equity
• Ana Gabriela Avalos Tizol, Mission High School
• Fany Chan Xu, Galileo High School
• Weichao (Steven) Zhuo, Mission High School

Awards Celebrations

We honor the 2010 Koshland Young Leaders at two celebrations. For information about the upcoming Community Leadership Awards event on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, please visit our Calendar page.

Guests at 2010 Koshland Young Leader Awards celebration.

We honored the 2010 Koshland Young Leaders Awardees at The San Francisco Foundation on June 9, 2010. Although incredibly diverse in origins and goals, this year’s awardees are united in their compassion, sheer drive to succeed, and gratefulness to their teachers, friends, families, mentors, and peers – many of whom cheered them on at the celebration. For a photo gallery from the celebration, please click here.

Past Winners

Winners of the 2009 Koshland Young Leader Awards

• Christian Castaing, City Arts and Technology High School
• Rashim Khadka, Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
• Sandra Liu, Raoul Wallenberg High School
• Janette Marquez, City Arts and Technology High School
• Sha'Nice Patterson, City Arts and Technology High School
• Francesca Sadikin, School of the Arts
• Carly Tello, City Arts and Technology High School
• David Wu, Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School

We celebrated these outstanding students at the Community Leadership Awards celebration on September 22, 2009. You can watch a short video profile of them below.

2008 Koshland Young Leader Awardees

• Tanea Lunsford, School of the Arts
• Clever Padilla, Mission High School
• Eduwiges Rivas, Mission High School
• Barbara Shipowo, Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Drakzin Wangmo, Gateway High School
• DongYi Zhao, Thurgood Marshall Academic High School

We celebrated these outstanding students at the Community Leadership Awards celebration on September 23, 2008. You can watch a short video profile of them below.