Our $2000 scholarship winner is Sierra Sitton, who expects to graduate from CSU-Maritime in 2014 with a Bachelor's of Science in International Business and Logistics. Sierra's enthusiasm for logistics and leadership is evidenced in her activities, such as being the Squad Leader Warrant officer in the Corps of Cadets. She plans to travel the world and help companies manage and improve their transportation needs.
The WIL judges were so impressed by the quality of the applicants that we were able to bestow two additional awards of $1000 each to the following students:

Anne Dohler will earn her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis Supply Chain Management and Operations and Enterprise Resource Management in spring 2012 from CSU-East Bay. A recent emigrant from Germany, she is currently working as a purchasing agent and is enthusiastic about working in the globalized world of supply chain management.

Virginia Traxler will earn her MBA in spring 2012 from San Francisco State University with an emphasis in Decision Science and Operations Research originally hails from Venezuela. Not content with being bi-lingual she is also learning Mandarin in her desire to work in international sourcing.

Congratulations to our WIL Scholarship winners for 2010, who each will receive $2000 towards tuition and fees.

Nikolay Stochev originally hails from Bulgaria, where he earned his engineering degree. Since emigrating to the US, he has switched to working in logistics, and he has worked in a variety of sales and operational roles at Clock Freight, Inc. a medium sized shipping company. Nikolay attended CSU Long Beach to earn a designation as a Global Logistics Specialist, and he is currently enrolled in the MBA program at Golden Gate University.

Monica Torres is clearly a driven and hardworking student. Emigrating from El Salvador four years ago, she had to overcome language barriers and held a variety of retail jobs to pay for her schooling at California Maritime Academy, from which she is scheduled to graduate in 2014. Her ambition is to work in maritime shipping, and she plans to use her scholarship moneys to help pay for her training cruise on the Golden Bear next summer.

While we had only five applicants this year, they were all wonderfully qualified. It made the decision a difficult one, and after much back and forth and counting of hanging chads, we decided upon two $2500 and one $1000 winners:

Fiona Fitzgerald: After working for over 14 years the banking industry and raising a family, Fiona has returned to school to earn a BS in Business last year and is now working on an MBA (with an emphasis in Decision Sciences) at SF State. Quite a journey for a lass from a small town in County Waterford, Ireland!

Liam LaFargue: A native of Mill Valley, Liam is currently learning about his major, International Business, firsthand as he teaches English in Buenos Aires this year as apart of a study abroad program by San Diego State. Liam has worked as an intern at the Pasha Group, continuing a family tradition of working in logistics.

Olivia Ortega receives a $1000 runner-up award. Olivia will be graduating with a BS in International Business and Logistics from the California Maritime Academy next spring. She has demonstrated great skills in logistics and leadership alike on her summer training cruise through the Pacific islands.

With our largest pool of applicants yet, the board awarded 3 additional $1000 runner-up awards.

Brigitte Grace Bayemi: MBA, Golden Gate University
Xuejiao Dutton, MBA: SFSU College of Business

$1000 runner up awards:

Devon Krakowski: BA, California Maritime Academy
Tracey Landstrom: Piedmont High School (entering college next fall)
Sandra Laudoniu: BA, SFSU College of Business

Mary Jones: MBA, CSU East Bay
Megan Smirti: Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Due to an especially strong and large pool of applicants, the WIL board of officers voted unanimously to expand our awards to 3 in 2006, even without outside funding.

John Paul (JP) Balucan: MBA, SFSU College of Business
Jessica Cinani: BA, California Maritime Academy
Andrew Warren:BA, California Maritime Academy

Somdutta Biswas: MBA, SFSU College of Business
Brian Dusseault: MBA, SFSU College of Business

Thanks to the generous patronage of Menlo Logistics, we were actually able to award an extra scholarship in 2004.

Maggie Cheng: BA, Golden Gate University
Ryann Cheung: MBA, SFSU College of Business
Ming Xue: MBA, SFSU College of Business