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The Women's Council scholarships are available to applicants that are employed by, or dependents of persons employed by, the members of the two Environmental Industry Associations: NSWMA or WASTEC. Applicants must be seeking undergraduate or graduate education with intent to pursue studies that will promote a career in the environmental industry.

 

2010 Scholarship Winners

The EIA Women’s Council is pleased to announce the 2010 Scholarship winners. The Council awarded four scholarships in 2010 to the following students for the next academic year:

Lindsay Foster-Drago, Portland, Oregon

Anna Oleksiewicz, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
2010 Scholarship winner Foster-Drago
2010 Scholarship winner Oleksiewicz

Lindsay Foster-Drago is the first repeat recipient of an EIA Women’s Council scholarship. She is working full-time for Keith Manufacturing Co. while completing an MBA at Marylhurst University. The granddaughter of the inventor of the Keith Walking Floor System, Lindsay is training to someday take the helm of the family business.

Anna Oleksiewicz is a high school senior who will be attending the University of Illinois studying electrical engineering in the Fall. The child of a Navistar, Inc. engineer, Anna is fluent in three languages, is a distance runner, auto mechanic, and mountain climber. She has already applied for a provisional patent for a collapsible bicycle carrier that can be used for air travel.

Jack Stern, Los Angeles, California

Kristin Van Kampen, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2010 Scholarship winner Stern
2010 Scholarship winner Van Kampen
Jack Stern is a dean’s list student at the University of Southern California where he is studying civil engineering. His mother is a communications manager at Waste Management, Inc. When not in school, Jack fights forest fires and is a certified first responder for Marin County, California’s Fire Department. Kristin Van Kampen is the daughter of a Republic Services, Inc. employee. Finishing her second year in biology and environmental studies at Calvin College in Michigan, Kristin is devoted to protecting worldwide ecology. After studying greenhouse management at her college, she travelled to Costa Rica to study biodiversity and apply her skills.

 

2009 Scholarship Winners

The EIA Women’s Council is pleased to announce the 2009 Scholarship winners. The Council awarded five scholarships in 2009 to the following students for the next academic year:

Lindsay Foster-Drago, Portland, Oregon

Corinne Magnuson, New Hampshire

Lindsay is a systems administrator for Keith Manufacturing, home of the walking-floor trailer. She will be attending an evening MBA-program at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.

As a day student at a New Hampshire boarding school, Cori kept up top grades while taking leading roles in public speaking, music, swimming, and the 4-H Club. Cori intends to become an environmental engineer.

Emily, Robbins, Worcester, Massachusetts

Joshua Sjögren, Grafton, Massachusetts

Emily is a high school senior from Worcester, Massachusetts. She received top grades while working part-time and taking leading roles in student council, year book and the national honor society. She has applied to the University of Michigan environmental program. Josh is a high school senior in Grafton, Massachusetts who reached the rank of Eagle Scout at 15. Deeply involved in sports and volunteer work, he will start an environmental science program in the Fall.

Austin Snyder

  

Austin is going into her junior year in Environmental Resource Management at Penn State University. She interned at Waste Management last summer and has a strong interest in wildlife conservation efforts.

 

2008 Scholarship Winners

The Council awarded four $2,500 scholarships in 2008 to the following four students:

Tonyia Downs, Shelbyville, Indiana

Jenna Harbin, New Washington, Indiana
Tonyia Downs
Jenna Harbin
Tonyia is employed as a salesperson for Republic Services since 2001. In 2006, she was inducted into the “Chairman’s Club” as one of the top sales people in the entire company. The mother of one adult son, Tonyia began her straight-A college career in 2005 at Indiana Wesleyan University, after a 30-year hiatus from higher education. Jenna is the number-one ranked student in her high school class. She intends to attend college in the fall for a degree in environmental studies. Her mother is a salesperson for Republic Services in Louisville, Kentucky.

Drew Landoll, Pierce City, Missouri

Molly Reed, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Drew Landoll
Molly Reed
The son of a regional engineer for Waste Corporation of America, Drew will be completing his studies in civil engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Molly is in her second year of pre-engineering at Middle Tennessee State University and will enroll in the civil engineering program at Tennessee Technological University in the fall. Molly’s father is a supervisor for Allied Waste in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

2007 Scholarship Winners

The Council awarded scholarship of $2,500 to two students during the inaugural year for the program.

David Reed, Owings Mills, Maryland

Victoria Lindsey, Willimantic, Connecticut

David Reed
David Reed has just completed his senior year at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland. During the summers and holidays he works for his family’s business—Cockey’s Enterprises, Inc. His great grandmother took over the hauling business after the death of her husband and eventually handed the reins over to David’s father. Today 3 of the 4 owners are women, including his aunts and mother. David plans on pursuing a degree in business with a minor in environmental studies. Victoria Lindsey has been employed by DeVivo Industries’ Willimantic Waste Paper Company, Inc. of Willimantic, Connecticut since 2000. She is currently employed full time as a sales manager and is on the Dean’s list at East Connecticut State University where she is working towards the completion of her degree in Business Administration.

 

Other Women's Council Information:

Contact:

Executive Director
Peggy Macenas
Tel: 800-679-6269
womens-council@envasns.org