Scholarship

To Empower Our Youth

Cecilia Montaner-Vargas Award

The Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County announces the opportunity for Latinx graduating high school seniors and for Latinx non-traditional students to be awarded a scholarship totaling $800. This scholarship is to be used for any future academic or occupational training program.
Interested students must complete all sections of the electronic application, and send additional documents. Please contact the LCA if a hard copy of the application is required.
Application link: https://form.jotform.com/211058279623053
ELIGIBILITY
The Latino Civic Association will consider:

High School students - Latinx seniors in good academic standing, who demonstrate community service involvement and who are graduating from any Tompkins County school district at the end of the 2021 school year;

and

Non-traditional students – Latinx individuals who demonstrate community service involvement and who are returning to school, whether for an occupational training program or for college.

SUBMITTAL
Deadline: The deadline for submission is May 1, 2021. Please send required documents
You May Submit

By email to

lcaoftompkinscounty@gmail.com
Reference letters and other required documents must be scanned if necessary and attached as a .pdf document if the submittal is emailed. Pdfs must be no larger than 5 MB.

Or by mail:

Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County
PO Box 6532
Ithaca, NY 14851
The submittal application by mail is due postmarked no later than May 1, 2021.
Required documents, including reference letters, must be sent to this address. Please provide it to your letter writers when you request a reference from them.

For more information about the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County and the Cecilia Montaner-Vargas Award visit our website: https://www.lca-of-tc.org/
Please share this information with your students. If you have any questions, please contact us at lcaoftompkinscounty@gmail.com

Previous Winners

2010
Angela Ochoa (University of Vermont)

2011
Brendalise Rosado (Tompkins Cortland Community College)
Maia Rodriguez Semp (Brandeis University)

2012
Austin Nielsen-Reagan (Middlebury College, Harvard Law School in progress)
Marisol E. Solomon

2013
Julia de Aragon (New College of Florida, Vanderbilt Peabody College M.Ed.)
Savan de Souza (Skidmore College)

2014
Vanessa Navarro (Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in progress)

2015
Olivia Colón (Swarthmore College)

2018
Joaquin Fontanez-Vargas (University at Buffalo)
Charles Thomson (Ithaca College)

2019
Karimah Adib (SUNY Buffalo)
Jasmine Cuevas (SUNY Binghamton)

2020
Evelyn Ochoa (University at Buffalo)

Office
110 N Tioga St., 2nd floor
Ithaca, NY 14850
Please send correspondence to
P. O. Box 6532
Ithaca, NY 14851

Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County

lcaoftompkinscounty@gmail.com