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We encourage New Leader Scholarship recipients to maintain contact with fellow recipients, mentors and board members. Click on any recipient or scroll down to see all bios.
2000 Recipients (current as of Autumn 2008) XAVIER CORONA, 34, emigrated from Mexico with his parents and earned a Bachelor's Degree from U.C., Berkeley in 2001 with majors in Peace and Conflict Studies and Chicano Studies. He received a Master's degree in Public Policy in Education from the University of Michigan In his second year of graduate study, he received a "New Student Leadership Award". Xavier returned to San Diego and worked as a community relations officer for a national retail chain until being recruited for a position in Wisconsin as a branch manager for Chase Morgan Stanley in Appleton, Wisconsin. Xavier is now working for Smith Barney as a financial analyst and is simultaneously enrolled in an MBA program at the University of Wisconsin. He has married and has a young son. WILFREDO HERRERA, 29, was born in El Salvador and came to the United States as a teenager in 1992. A graduate of U.C., Berkeley, he received his Master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied the impact of racism in Brazil as his thesis. He went to work for Citibank as a Client Financial Analyst, first in Marin County and then in Austin, Texas. He specialized in helping first-time home owners in the Latin American community. Two years ago, he returned to El Salvador, working as an English teacher in his home village for several months. Subsequently, he taught English in Columbia. Now, back in the United States, he plans to pursue his original goal of becoming a high school or community college teacher. VERONICA KEIFFER NEAL, 33, is a graduate of San Jose State University, with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. She continues her strong interest in diversity and biracial identity at Mills College where she is earning a doctorate in Educational Leadership. She continues to administer the two non-profit organizations which she co-founded with her brother. Veronica spent a year working on the staff of Shanti, before returning to work on her dissertation at Mills College. Veronica has married, has one boy and is currently on maternity leave. |
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