Where the mission meets the real world
OUR WORK
Here’s what we’ve been up to. More to come.
Our First Partnership - Howard University Medical Alumni Association
HUMAA manages over 100 endowed scholarships, distributing more than $350,000 annually to the next generation of medical professionals. We partnered with their scholarship team to help identify and fund four outstanding students - a small investment with a long reach.
Award Recipients
Scholarship Award presented by Dr. Annette Bey Shaw and Chris Chowquan at the 2026 HUMAA Awards. Jasmine is a Howard University College of Medicine student pursuing emergency medicine - summa cum laude, Class President, and researcher at both Children's National Hospital and Mount Sinai. Her work centers on health equity and social determinants of care.
Scholarship Award - Alexandria is pre-med student with a focus on neurosurgery, who brings hands-on research experience as a research technologist at Johns Hopkins University - building the scientific foundation to match her surgical ambitions.
Scholarship Award - Danae is Howard University researcher with deep roots in academic medicine. She has spent over three years across the GI and Urology Research Interest Groups - and completed a Mayo Clinic Summer Research Fellowship in 2023. Her record reflects a sustained commitment to research long before most students begin.
Scholarship Award - Samar is Howard University College of Medicine student pursuing pediatric surgery — with a focus on trauma and neonatal subspecialties. A former research assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital under Dr. Rohit Bakshi, her neuroimaging work on multiple sclerosis has led to co-author publications in Nature Mental Health, Neonatal Network, the Journal of Neuroimaging, and the Journal of Neurosciences. An American University alumna with volunteer experience at St. Jude's Cancer Center in Beirut and Cooley Dickinson Health Care in Massachusetts.