Alumni News | 05/27/2020

By: Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation

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Making the Great Extraordinary

The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation invests in our future — offering college scholarships to exceptional high school students dedicated to leadership, service, and action that positively affects others. We’ve done it for 31 years, changing the paths of more than 6,150 young people ready to change the world.

Scholar Profiles

We are the Sum Total of Our Actions

Coke Scholars are scientists and politicians. Educators and actors. Technologists, thinkers, doers, and above all, game-changers. You’ll find our visionary leaders refreshing the world achieving all over the globe, and their impact reflected in nearly every sector from business to nonprofit to public service.

When Empathy Goes Viral

Nathan Alexander

2003

How Nathan Alexander is Creating Social Justice Through Mathematics

Meet Joe: The Small Town Scholar Featured in Coke’s New ‘Dear Future’ Ad

“Playing the role of myself, as a Coca-Cola Scholar, helped me reminisce about how special of an experience it was,” Joe said.

Top Five Colleges

Harvard
Stanford
Duke
Yale
Princeton

Gender Ratio

56%

Female

44%

Male

150

Scholarships of

$20,000

Awarded Each Year

2019 At A Glance

Our Scholars take the spotlight, but we also have a lot going on behind the scenes. Take a look at our 2019 stats.

Top Five Career Paths

Business & Finance
Education
Healthcare
Arts, Entertainment & Sports
Legal

$73,800,000

Total Awarded in Scholarships Since 1989 Through

3

Nationally Recognized Programs

Our Scholars Come From

3,861

High Schools in

50

States

#cokescholars

Episode 5 of The SIP is out! Listen using the link

Episode 5 of The SIP is out! Listen using the link in our bio or going to Cokeurl.com/TheSIP.
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Daron K. Roberts (1997), bestselling author and founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership and Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, joins The SIP to host the fifth episode. He interviews Madi Pfaff Edgar (2013), the founder and CEO of two companies – Legesher, her open source project that connects the language we speak to the code we write, and With Madi Co., which empowers people to grow through personal and professional development.
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Daron and Madi discuss her experience as a minority in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math), how COVID-19 may change the way we work together forever, and how she’s creating community through coding and as a co-pastor. (Madi shares a fun surprise about her future, too!)
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The episode is introduced by Justin J. Pearson (2013).
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Mark your calendar - Madi and Daron will be live on our Instagram next Friday, July 10, at noon Eastern!

It was a powerful evening with an incredible panel

It was a powerful evening with an incredible panel for the first #CokeScholarsRealTalk: What it Means to be Black in America. Thank you to Justin J. Pearson (2013), Lillian Singh (2000), Torarie Durden (1994), Angela Harrell (1991), and Quinn Rallins (2004) for sharing your personal experiences so openly and giving the #CokeScholars community the opportunity to learn and grow together. We are so grateful!

Looking forward to learning from these Coke Schola

Looking forward to learning from these Coke Scholars and alumni in the first forum of the new #CokeScholarsRealTalk series, "What it Means to be Black in America: The pride, the struggles, and the fight for racial equality."
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#CokeScholars, register today before spots fill up! Details were emailed on Friday, June 26.
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Featuring:
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Justin J. Pearson (2013), Special Assistant to the CEO of Year Up and the Executive Director & Founder of Camp Hope Summer Program
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Angela Harrell (1991), SVP, Chief Diversity & Corporate Responsibility Officer and Foundation President, Voya Financial
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Quinn Rallins (2004), Director of Justice, Equity and Opportunity Initiatives, Office of Illinois Lieutenant Governor
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Lillian Singh (2000), VP, Racial Wealth Equity, Prosperity Now
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Torarie Durden (1994), Head of Marketing, MyadermCBD
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#CokeScholarsRealTalk is a safe space for the Scholar community to share, learn, and grow together through candid conversations on topics that really matter.
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The Real Talk series is designed to share our collective experiences from varied points of view. Together, we will cover topics like: being Black in America, racial inequality, religion, LGBTQ rights, gender bias in the workplace, and more. Though the conversations may be challenging the goal is the same, to better understand one another.

TUESDAY at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central - meet actress,

In the fourth episode of The SIP, Jolene Loetscher

The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation – inclusive of

The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation – inclusive of our team and our board – affirms that #blacklivesmatter. We, The Coca-Cola Company, and all of our US-based bottling partners stand with those who are speaking out against systemic racism, oppression and violence.