Kawin Nunnery
Kawin Nunnery
If you are a high school senior in rural New Mexico, hear this clearly: The money is out there; yet far too often, we are the ones leaving it on the table. I know because I almost did.
I grew up in Hobbs, and when the Daniels Fund came to present at my high school, I realized this was my chance. For me, the scholarship was not simply a nice opportunity, it was the only path I had to leave my hometown and pursue my dream of going to college. My family did not have the means to send me away to school. This was it. My GPA was not the highest, and my ACT and SAT scores were not impressive. On paper, I did not appear to be the kind of student who would win a major scholarship. Still, I applied. The Daniels Fund saw something in me that I had not yet discovered in myself. Their belief in my potential changed the entire course of my life.
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Kawin Nunnery is a program officer for the JF Maddox Foundation in Hobbs. She attended Grambling State University on a Daniels Scholarship.
Kawin Nunnery
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