At its meeting Wednesday, May 14, the Fairfax County Board of Trustees honored the 2025 Fairfax Library Foundation Scholarship Recipients.
This year’s awardees included 16 undergraduate recipients, 7 graduate, and 9 recipients of scholarships for staff development. Congratulations to all the recipients!
Graduate Scholarship Recipients
- Raven Anderson
- Kathleen Cheon
- Rebecca Herrera
- Rebecca Kurylo
- Laura Odegard
- Sahadev Poudel
- Larissa Yates
Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients
- Temni Afework
- Karsten Anderer
- Alice Cao-Dao
- Krishna Chaduruvelly
- Zayan Meah, Savkar-Loser R.E.A.D. Scholarship
- Liyana Mohammed, Pohick Friends Joan & Richard Vaaler Scholarship
- Ibrahim Mujahid, Myra “Micky” Shulman New American Initiative Scholarship
- Susan Pirnat, Friends of the Centreville Library Scholarship
- Cory Potter
- Daniel Purvis, Pohick Friends Dan & Joanne Neckel Scholarship
- Alicia Rebello, Pohick Friends Andrew Pendergrass Scholarship
- Ella Ridgway, Friends of the Burke Centre Library Scholarship
- Amery Stapleton, Pohick Friends Rita Hoskins Scholarship
- Eleanor VanDuyne, Pohick Friends Nancy Vandel Scholarship
- Victoria Wood, Christine Chambers-Chun Scholarship
- Claire Yan, Pohick Friends Mary Storch Scholarship
Staff Development
- Luis Aponte
- Mona Chandan
- Logan Counard
- Sondra Eklund
- Nancy Klein
- David M. Mercer
- Pamela Murrell
- Sara Prohaska
- Jennifer Tchida
Award totals for this year include $22,500 for undergraduate, $24,000 for graduate, and $4,877 for staff development scholarships. To date, the Foundation has awarded a total of $585,000 in scholarships.
A full photo gallery celebrating our scholarship winners can be viewed here: 2025_FLFScholarshipAwardees - Fairfax County Public Library.