August 2025 Scholar Accolades
Celebrating Crystal Sanders (2001), Lydia Hollon (2017), Mukta Dharmapurikar (2022), Shiva Rajbhandari (2023), Cordelia Van der Veer (2022), Joelle Murchison (1991), David Spicer (2019), Nzinga Tull (1993),
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July 2025 Scholar Accolades
Coke Scholar Accolades featuring Natosha Reid Rice (1989), Ariona Cook (2023), Vivian Nguyen (2023), Nathan Alexander (2003), & Talia Fradkin (2016).
Celebrating Coke Scholar College Graduates
Congratulations to our Coke Scholar Grads! See where they are headed next.
June 2025 Scholar Accolades
Jackson Blackwell (2017) was selected to represent Alaska at the 2025 Western Governors’ Association Leadership Institute and Shine Gerkariah (2024) received the David Nicklas Organ Donor Awareness Foundation Award for their advocacy and research in ethical innovation and health equity.
May 2025 Scholar Accolades
Joel Bervell (2013) won a Peabody Award; Tim McCallum (1991) was elected Mayor of Rockwall, Texas; and Soy Kim (2010) was named one of 5 AAPI Music Executives Making an Impact in 2025 by Variety magazine.
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January 2018 Accolades
James Ho (1991) has been nominated to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the former Solicitor General of Texas. Scott Jennings (1996) has been appointed as a spring resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, where he will develop and lead a…
December 2017 Accolades
Heather Tell (1992) and Angela Orange (1998) were both elected to the Georgia School Board Association, and Derrius Quarles (2009) was accepted into the newest class of TED residents.
December 2017 Connections
Wesli Jones (2012) – producer at CNN, cancer survivor, and voice of the #CocaColaRenew campaign – came by CCSF to say hello, and The Coca-Cola Company invited our New York Scholars to the National Forest Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Dinner.
November 2017 Connections
Scholars got together on campus at Brown, UPenn, Cornell, and the University of Southern California, and alumni met up in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.