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 2019-20.
Thank you, donors!
Through the generosity of our donors, we funded 148 scholarships, 17 honorariums and 36 internships in 2019-2020, distributing over $500,000 in scholarships.
| Anonymous | Wallace Mersereau |
| Gail and Bruce Chizen | Susie and Neal Mielke |
| Google LLC | Cindy and Ron Olander |
| Dawn and Gary Guthart | Liz and Dave Rome |
| Marguerite and Karl Hansen | Jackie and Ben Sigua |
| Heising-Simons Foundation | Shortino Foundation |
| Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation (recommended by Steve Hope) | Jim Strand |
| Cathy and Dick Lampman | Ginny and Rich Strock |
| LinkedIn Corporation | Betsy Templeton |
| Paul Marcos and Barry Albrecht | Los Altos United Methodist Church |
| Risa and Mike Biggar | Geri and Scott Macomber |
| Sandra Lee and John Chang | Liz Price |
| Holly and Andy Cohen | Janet Tornow and Tom Rogers |
| Dee Gibson | Julia and Simon Roy |
| Sue and Ken Greathouse | Susan and Jim Strawbridge |
| Dede and Michael Huffman | Pamela and Edward Taft |
| Kim and Brian Jones | Stephanie and Andrew Towell |
| Los Altos Community Foundation |
| Cindy and Paul Anderson | Janet Gilmore and Geoff McCavitt |
| Anonymous | Cindy and Milton McColl |
| Lisa and David Auerbach | D’Anne and Bruce McFarlane |
| Tim Ayres | Linda and Mike McTeigue |
| Deborah and Paul Baker | Anne and Michael Milliken |
| Carrie and Peter Castro | Kris and Ken Moore |
| Viviane Wildmann and Daniel Cohen | Kathleen Hall and Leslie Murdock |
| Elayne and Philip Dauber | Quyen Nguyen |
| Sue Epstein | Manisha and Rupesh Patel Shah |
| Tamara and Stuart Fagin | Valerie and John Poggi |
| Kathy Frates | Kathy and John Radford |
| Margaret and Ben Gong | Galen Rosenberg |
| Gita and Prabandham Gopal | Sue and Dave Russell |
| Julie and Barry Groves | Santa Cruz County Community Foundation |
| Judy Hannemann | Ellyn Corey and Tom Sartor |
| Jennifer Hawks | Vish Shastry |
| Lalia and Hamilton Helmer | Mike Stanley |
| Nancy and Jerre Hitz | Valori and Gordon Stitt |
| Grace and Alex Hui | Harvard Sung |
| Asif Iqbal | Garret Swart |
| Andrea and Michael Kanda | Valerie and Steven Taglio |
| Becky Bacon and Jude Kirik | Norelle Tavrow |
| Jill and Richard Klein | Elene Terry |
| Therese and Torben Kristensen | Dale and Charlie Tritschler |
| Barbara and Edmond Kyser | Pam Baird and Greg Unangst |
| Cindy Labuda | Reynette Au and Jeanine Valadez |
| Timothy Landhuis | Cathy and Gary Walz |
| Candace and Douglas Lublin | Dennis Young |
| Bill Mason |
| Jeanne and Allen Bates | Chris and Webb McKinney |
| Sheila and Philip Faillace | Jeannie and Wells Richter |
| Betsy and John Fitch | Diane Schmitz |
| Suzanne and Scott Graeser | Lo Siumui |
| Sung Choi and Erik Hendriks | Debra and Seth Strichartz |
| Laura Roberts and Bob Jones | Robin and Mike Teng |
| Mary Takahashi and Karl Kramer | Catherine Vonnegut and Gary Winiger |
| Ana Levan |
| Amy Allebest | Joanne Tornow and Neil Lehrer |
| Anonymous | Ann and George Limbach |
| Patricia and Christopher Beaulieu | Ilona and Chuck Lindauer |
| Ann and Peter Bjorklund | Petrita and David Lipkin |
| Books Inc. | Rui Lu |
| Heather Anne Boyle | Elizabeth and Mike Maciag |
| Peggy Forbes Bremond and Harry Bremond | Nanette Malgesini |
| Betty Burchard | Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian and Pete Manoukian |
| Suzanne and Eric Butler | Joanne Marent |
| Kathy and Mark Camin | Renee and Robert Marshalla |
| Kristine Carter | William McClintock |
| Laura Casas | Betsy and David Mease |
| Ellen and Bill Clark | Joanne and Derek Miyahara |
| Vivien and Stephen D’Andrea | Tom Moran |
| Jean and Andy Danver | Ann Nguyen |
| George Dies | Lisa and Brent Paine |
| Claudia Hevel and Stanley Doty | Alice and Clifford Pence |
| Frances and Bruce Dougherty | Steve Peters |
| Greg Doyas | Alison and Steven Rempel |
| Patricia and Robert Falconer | Daniel Rich |
| Nancy Federman | Megan Marwede and David Rich |
| Sheri and Rich Fischer | Carson Rietveld |
| Carole Flores | Lorelei and Larry Russell |
| Karen Fox | Julie and Douglass Scott |
| Teri Fraught | Syd Sharples |
| Nancy and Steve Gill | Elena and Tom Shea |
| Marci Hanson | Caroline and James Small |
| Kirsten and Kevin Hayes | Marilyn and Al Stratz |
| Pat and Gary Hedden | Kathy Sulaver |
| Paulette and Dick Henning | Michael Trainor |
| Wanny and Mason Hersey | Adrienne and Neil Tuch |
| Sarah Chang and Jerry Hsia | Robin Vroom |
| Susan Imai | Fiona and Todd Walter |
| Joan and David Karlin | Marcia and Randy White |
| Carol Koransky | Paula White-Reddy |
| Vicki and Peter LaBoskey | Peggy Franczyk and Thomas Wilson |
| Pam and Chris Lehner | Martha Yacoe Daly and Marshall Yacoe |
Thank you, corporations and foundations!
Interested in providing a grant?
Contact Sung-Eun Choi, Grants Manager
Thank you, volunteers!
MVLA Scholars is a 100% volunteer-run organization. Our 150+ 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 | Rachel Hastings | Gail Pinkner |
| Barry Albrecht | Mason Hersey | John Poggi |
| Amy Allebest | Wanny Hersey | Liz Price |
| Cindy Anderson | Jennie Ho | Sonal Puri Singh |
| Paul Anderson | Steve Hope | Nikhila Rao |
| Susan Arrillaga | Dede Huffman | Paul Reinhart |
| Claudia Baroni | Linda Hung | Jeannie Richter |
| Karen Becker | Olivia Iancelli | Liz Rome |
| Jill Bertrand | Laurel Iverson | Galen Rosenberg |
| Jon Bingham | Anagha Jain | Julia Roy |
| Rachel Botsford | Sara Jenez | Sue Russell |
| Kristen Bragg | Jennifer Jones | Maria Monica Santi |
| Trang Bui | Barb Keyser | Kanthi Sarkar |
| Betty Burchard | Karl Kramer | Julie Scott |
| Liliana Cabral | Therese Kristensen | Manisha Shah |
| Kathy Camin | Jennifer Lamerdin Dormady | Kim Sheehan |
| Lindsay Carpenter | Sandra Lee | Tom Shou |
| Barbara Carroll | Sara Levine | Julia Singer |
| Jessica Chang | Chuck Lindauer | Caroline Small |
| Sarah Chang | Lynette Liu | Stephanie Spaid |
| Sung-Eun Choi | Kammy Lo | Lekha Srinivasan |
| Peter Chow | Candace Lublin | Mike Stanley |
| John Cognetta | Doug Lublin | Tucker Stanwood |
| Andy Cohen | Daphne Luong | Valori Stitt |
| Dan Cohen | Chris Luu | Debra Stout |
| Holly Cohen | Alyxia Ma | Susan Strawbridge |
| Jim Colton | Jim Malone | Ginny Strock |
| Zoe Conroy | Joanne Marent | Rich Strock |
| Ellyn Corey | Eric Mark | Nancy Strom |
| Maribeth Coyne | Victor Martindale | Sundar Subbarayan |
| Diyamanthi Dahanayaka | Megan Marwede | Tim Taich |
| Stephanie Downey | Bill Mason | Alison Takata |
| Lisa Estrada | Gary Maxey | Norelle Tavrow |
| Betsy Fitch | Cindy McColl | Mike Teng |
| Carole Flores | Bruce McFarlane | Robin Teng |
| Peggy Forbes | Mike McTeigue | Trevor Thompson |
| Brett Ford | Betsy Mease | Janet Tornow |
| Peggy Franczyk | Susi Merhar | Andrew Towell |
| Malar Ganapathiappan | Neal Mielke | Charlie Tritschler |
| Craig Garber | Susie Mielke | Dale Tritschler |
| Pilar Garcia | Stuart Mitchell | Janet Vassar |
| Dee Gibson | Denise Montgomery | Beth Vidakovits |
| Janet Gilmore | Stephanie Moore | Robin Vroom |
| Margaret Gong | Junne Moy | Jenn Walsh |
| Sarah Good | Junne Moy | Cathy Walz |
| Gital Gopal | Nancy NeSmith | Paula White Reddy |
| Andrea Gorman | Kari Niehaus | Ann Wolff |
| Scott Graesser | Daniel Pare | Beth Wolff |
| Barry Groves | Chris Parry | Neil Wolff |
| Judy Hanneman | Jennifer Pence | Marissa Ynez |
| Marci Hanson | Steve Peters | Tracey Young |
| Tabitha Hanson | Ellen Petrill |