At its meeting Wednesday, May 10, the Fairfax County Board of Trustees honored the 2023 Fairfax Library Foundation Scholarship Recipients. This year’s recipients included 17 undergraduate scholarship recipients and five recipients of scholarship for staff development.  

Board of Trustees Chair Brian Engler congratulated each recipient individually and presented each with a plaque. Jennifer Disano of Fairfax Library Foundation Board of Directors and chair of its scholarship committee and Lisa Bryant, executive director of the foundation, were also on hand to congratulate recipients.  

Congratulations to FCPL staff members Logan Counard, Erin Guyer, Shelley Levinson, Bethany Korenic and Carolyn Tirona on receiving staff development scholarships! 

Congratulations to the students who received scholarships for their undergraduate studies: 

• Jocelyn Bliton, Virginia Tech  

• Sophia Brown, Dartmouth  

• Alice Cao-Dao, Virginia Tech  

• Katlyn Calustro, Pohick Friends’ Scholarship, George Mason University  

• Bhargav Garre Venkata  

• Calla Inman, Virginia Tech  

• Akale Kinfe, Myra “Micky” Shullman New American Initiative Scholarship   

• Zayan Meah, Christine Chambers-Chun Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Virginia  

• Liyanna Mohammed, College of William & Mary  

• Charan Narra, Pohick Friends’ Joan and Richard Vaaler Scholarship, Virginia Tech  

• Susan Pirnat, Burke Centre Friends’ Scholarship, Christopher Newport University                 

• Kaitlyn Purvis, George Mason University  

• Lor Ridgway, Pohick Friends’ Scholarship, College of William & Mary  

• Mia Simmons, George Mason University   

• Niamh Sosa, Columbia University   

• Danny Tran, University of Maryland, College Park  

• Lauren Tucker, University of San Diego