Our Supporters
We are so grateful for the strong support we get from our community. The following donors, corporations, foundations and volunteers were incredibly generous with their time and/or money in 2024-25.
Thank you, donors!
Through the generosity of our donors, we funded 136 scholarships, 9 honorariums and 30 internships/supplemental scholarships in 2024-2025, distributing over $550,000 in scholarships.
| Anonymous (2) | Nancy and Kenneth Becker |
| Carol and Burton Goldfield | Margaret and Ben Gong |
| Chris and Greg Hoberg | Jiye Lee and Wongyoung Kim |
| Cathy and Dick Lampman | Helen and Dale Mersereau |
| Renuka and Kanu Patel | Jackie and Ben Sigua |
| Stephanie and Andrew Towell | Kathryn Uhlir |
| Diane and Jim Bordoni | Gail and Bruce Chizen |
| Esther John and Aart de Geus | Kathy and Raleigh Frates |
| Dede and Michael Huffman | Los Altos United Methodist Church |
| Cindy and Ron Olander | Jim Pollart |
| Elizabeth and David Rome | Richard and Virginia Strock |
| Robyn and Loren Shalinsky | Jim Strand |
| Susan and Jim Strawbridge | Pamela and Edward Taft |
| Town Crier Holiday Fund | Pam and Jim Wilson |
| Anonymous (2) | Kathy and Mark Camin |
| Carrie and Peter Castro | Sandra Lee and John Chang |
| Holly and Andy Cohen | Zoe Conroy |
| Dee Gibson | Sue and Ken Greathouse |
| Marguerite and Karl Hansen | Steve Everett and Sharon Lam |
| Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund | Candace and Douglas Lublin |
| Anita and Mithran Mathew | Anne and Michael Milliken |
| Kathleen Hall and Leslie Murdock | Janet Tornow and Tom Rogers |
| Julia and Simon Roy | Manisha and Rupesh Shah |
| Scott and Allison Tilley |
| Anonymous (6) | Cindy and Paul Anderson |
| Deborah and Paul Baker | Risa and Mike Biggar |
| Rachel and Bryon Botsford | Julie and Ryan Broms |
| Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney and Vikas Butaney | Carla Holmes and Peter Chow |
| Viviane Wildmann and Daniel Cohen | Liz and Jim Cowie |
| Vivian and Bruce Euzent | Linda Fazio |
| Carole Flores | Laurence Fong |
| Karen Fox | Nancy Geschke |
| Gita and Prabandham Gopal | Suzanne and Scott Graeser |
| Kammy Lo and Kowsik Guruswamy | Judy Hannemann |
| Patricia and Gary Hedden | Lynne Heinrich |
| Claire and Paul Hubel | Asif Iqbal |
| Donald and Patricia Kassner | Jay Kidd |
| Becky Bacon and Jude Kirik | Jill and Richard Klein |
| Karl and Elisa Kneip | Therese and Torben Kristensen |
| Cindy Labuda | Joanne Tornow and Neil Lehrer |
| Jennifer Yu and Thomas Li | Geri and Scott Macomber |
| Amy and Rick Magnuson | Joanne Marent |
| Edward and Susan McClammy | Cindy McColl |
| D’Anne and Bruce McFarlane | Linda and Mike McTeigue |
| J. Bart Miaullis | Quyen Nguyen |
| Keith Onodera | Rebecca Patton |
| Ellyn Corey and Tom Sartor | Nancy and Tom Stevens |
| Debra and Seth Strichartz | Kristine Kim and Jay Suh |
| Robin and Mike Teng | Elene Terry |
| Dale and Charlie Tritschler | Pam Baird and Greg Unangst |
| Reynette Au and Jeanine Valadez | Catherine Vonnegut |
| Cathy and Gary Walz |
| Anonymous (3) | Keren Dawson-Bowman |
| Jennifer and David Degraaff | Sheila and Philip Faillace |
| Carol and David Francisco | Carol Casas and Christopher Gove |
| Diana and Fred Heinzmann | Olivier Helleboid |
| Dick Henning | Krysten Hommel |
| Laura Roberts and Bob Jones | Susanne Merhar and Karl Kaiser |
| Adele and Jeffrey Kellman | Mary Takahashi and Karl Kramer |
| Vicki and Peter LaBoskey | Tim and Carolyn LeBaron |
| Donn Levine | Ilona and Chuck Lindauer |
| Lisa and Michael Liu | Elizabeth and Mike Maciag |
| Sara Kopit-Olson and Eric Olson | Sheryl Palting |
| Barbara Pugliese | Jeannie and Wells Richter |
| Laura and Stu Schmidt | Isabel Schreier |
| Kim and John Sheehan | Sally and Rich Slavin |
| Valerie and Steven Taglio | Janet and Richard Vassar |
| Ann and Neil Wolff |
| Anonymous (3) | Gerri Acers |
| Kristine and Erik Bardman | Ann and Peter Bjorklund |
| Suzanne Rocca-Butler and Eric Butler | Gloria Carrig |
| Maria Carrig | Clara Roa and Clarence Chen |
| Bill Clark | Claudia Hevel and Stanley Doty |
| Dawn and David Edgren | Sheri and Rich Fischer |
| Elizabeth and John Fitch | Nancy and Steve Gill |
| Andrea Gorman | Susan and Kim Graham |
| Pepe Hinojosa | Sarah Chang and Jerry Hsia |
| Karen and David Keefer | Carol and Howard Koransky |
| Carol Kuiper | Donna and Mark Lee |
| Rebecca and Matthew Lowell | Patricia and Pete Manoukian |
| Sally Meadows and Ian Massey | Maddy and John McBirney |
| Judy Hanneman and Tom Moran | Joyce Musselman |
| Ruth Norris | Alice and Cliff Pence |
| Ellen Petrill | Judy Atterholt and Christopher Petti |
| Nancy and John Recker | Michelle and Bill Reichert |
| Julie Steury and Peter Reynolds | Dan Rich |
| Anne and Duane Roberts | Vi and Dan Robertson |
| Lorelei and Larry Russell | Wendy and Sanjay Sarathy |
| Sumi Sinha | Kathy Sulaver |
| Emy Thurber | Nomi and Fritz Trapnell |
| Donald Tritschler | Will Tritschler |
| Dalila Hernandez Velasquez | Marcia and Randy White |
| Jean Fong and Jeff Wong | Katie Zoglin |
Thank you, volunteers!
MVLA Scholars is a 100% volunteer-run organization. Our 146 volunteers:
- mentor Scholars and AVID high school students
- provide career guidance through the Career Launch team
- select our Scholars
- produce our website
- train Scholars and mentors
- serve on our Board
| Gerri Acers | Harvey Alcabes | Cindy Anderson |
| Paul Anderson | Erik Bardman | Amy Beare |
| Jill Bertrand | Renu Bhattar | Brian Blatnik |
| Rachel Botsford | Gabriella Bradley | Betty Buchard |
| Barbara Carroll | Michael Cassidy | Hilda Chan |
| Sarah Chang | Carla Chow | Peter Chow |
| Yumi Clark | Carol Cleary-Schultz | Holly Cohen |
| Zoe Conroy | Jim Cowie | Katie DeDominicis |
| Jill Elman | Shari Elmer | Jessica Erickson |
| Lisa Estrada | Linda Fazio | Carole Flores |
| Brett Ford | Susan Friedeberg | Michelle Galbraith |
| Dee Gibson | Carol Goldfield | Margaret Gong |
| Sarah Goode | Andrea Gorman | Kathy Goumas |
| Olivia Green | Jackelyne Guzman Ordaz | Ravi Haksar |
| Kathryn Hanson | Christine Hees | Olivier Helleboid |
| Jennie Ho | Steve Hope | Angela Horine |
| Dede Huffman | Samina Iqbal | Sara Jenez |
| Karen Jones | Elaine Kao | Gulnar Kawas |
| Natasha Keck | Vaishali Khandekar | Jay Kidd |
| Elisa Kneip | Sara Kopit-Olsen | Therese Kristensen |
| Sharon Lam | Jennifer Lamerdin | Carolyn LeBaron |
| Anna Lee | Emily Leong | Chuck Lindauer |
| Mike Liu | Candace Lublin | Daphne Luong |
| Alyxia Ma | Simon Ma | Jim Malone |
| Tomas Margain | Anita Mathew | Bruce McFarlane |
| Mike McTeigue | Seema Mehta | Leslie Micetich |
| Don Michele Moussa | Mike Millikan | Joanne Miyahara |
| Kathie Montgomery | Cathy Moore | Stephanie Moore |
| Mike Morgan | Wen-San Morgan | Junne Moy |
| Carina Muniz | Sue Myers | Dana Nachman |
| Venkatesh Narayanan | Uyen Nguyen | Ruth Norris |
| Jill Onodera | Keith Onodera | Jennifer Pence |
| Ellen Petrill | Jennifer Piercey | Tracy Piombo |
| Liz Price | Barbara Pugliese | Saumya Rajan |
| Rebecca Ramko | Nikhila Rao | Lia Rensin |
| Jeannie Richter | Liz Rome | Yesinia Rosa |
| Tim Ross | Julia Roy | Kanthi Sarkar |
| Prateek Sarkar | John Schiffhauer | Laura Schmidt |
| Kimberly Schwarzhoff | Julie Scott | Manisha Shah |
| Robyn Shalinsky | Suresh Shanmugham | Kim Sheehan |
| Priya Shirahatti | Tom Shou | Sumi Sinha |
| Tracy Stone | Ginny Strock | Jill Tajima |
| Alison Takata | Norelle Tavrow | Monica Teicher |
| Kathy Thompson | Janet Tornow | Andrew Towell |
| Laura Tran | Dale Tritschler | Janet Vassar |
| Robin Vroom | Jennifer Walsh | Matthias Weber |
| Kim Wellborn | Ann Wolff | Leslie Wu |
| Barak Yenier | David Young | Tracy Young |
| Jennifer Yu | Susan Yung | Katie Zoglin |