{"id":785,"date":"2022-12-11T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aig.alumni.virginia.edu\/bolivar\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:56:30","slug":"awards-brunch-release-winter-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/bolivar\/events-news\/press-releases\/awards-brunch-release-winter-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Brunch Release (Winter 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For immediate release \u2013 December 9th, 2022<\/p>\n

Contacts:<\/span> The Bol\u00edvar Network<\/b> – <\/span>TheBolivarNetwork@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bol\u00edvar Network Celebrates its 25th Anniversary and hosts 2022 Award Brunch at Alumni Hall honoring three undergraduate students and one graduate student with the annual Book Scholarships, Frank Valdez with the Pablo J. Davis Award, and Zachary Rios with the First-Year Scholarship\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

On Saturday, December 3 at 11:00 am, the Bol\u00edvar Network, the University of Virginia\u2019s (UVA) network for Hispanic\/Latinx\/Latino alumni, hosted its annual Awards Brunch at the Manning Pavilion in Alumni Hall honoring the recipients of the annual <\/span>Book Scholarship Award<\/span><\/a>s, the <\/span>Pablo J. Davis Award<\/span><\/a>, and the <\/span>First-Year Scholarship<\/span><\/a>. This year\u2019s Awards Brunch coincided with the Bol\u00edvar Network\u2019s 25th Anniversary. In line with this momentous occasion, the Bol\u00edvar Network launched a new logo earlier this year marking its commitment to the Network\u2019s mission. Marked by a feather, a symbol of cultural significance to our Hispanic and Latino communities, the emboldened lettering solidifies the Network\u2019s dedication to the past, present, and future strength of alumni at UVA. In tandem with the rebrand, the Bol\u00edvar Network also launched its $25,000 Anniversary Campaign. Alumni, administration, faculty, families, and community members can make a campaign <\/span>donation online<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The morning\u2019s Awards Brunch was kicked off with remarks by Claudia Quintero, the Bol\u00edvar Network\u2019s Board Chair followed by presentations by Mariana Braz\u00e3o, Vice-Chair for Social Media & Communications; Claudia Bonilla, Vice-Chair for Alumni Community Engagement; Alejandro Nava Moncada, Vice-Chair for Professional Development; and Gina M. Flores Stumpf, Vice-Chair for Fundraising & Development. Professor Ricardo Padr\u00f3n from the University of Virginia’s Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese gave a talk on the history of Fernando Bol\u00edvar and the Bol\u00edvar legacy at the University. Vice-Chair for Scholarship & Awards, Hannah \u201cMel\u201d Borja, opened the Awards portion of the evening by thanking her Scholarships & Awards committee and presented the Pablo J. Davis Award. Previous Bol\u00edvar Network Board Chair, seed funder of the First-Year Scholarship, and current Scholarship & Awards Committee member Hernando Herrera (\u201889) presented both the Graduate and Undergraduate Book Scholarships. Long-time supporter of the Bol\u00edvar Network and seed funder of the First Year-Scholarship, Jenny Willier Murphy (\u201889), presented the First-Year Scholarship Award. Prior to the Awards Brunch, the Bol\u00edvar Network\u2019s Board met in Alumni Hall\u2019s Board Room to strategize for the upcoming year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bol\u00edvar Network is excited to announce that this year, four Latinx students, three undergraduate students and one graduate student, received the Bol\u00edvar Network Book Scholarship for the 2022-2023 cycle. In 2008, the Bol\u00edvar Network Board expanded the Book Scholarships to graduate students. In both 2009 and 2010 two graduate students were awarded a book scholarship. We successfully revived the graduate student Book Scholarship again this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations to our Undergraduate Book Scholarship Recipients: <\/span>Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Corval\u00e1n Caba\u00f1as<\/b>, Class of 2023; <\/span>Anthony Guevara<\/b>, Class of 2023; and <\/span>Paola Linares<\/b>, Class of 2023. Congratulations to our Graduate Book Scholarship Recipient: <\/span>Fernando Casarotti<\/b>, Darden Class of 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bol\u00edvar Network\u2019s annual Pablo J. Davis Award seeks to identify a UVA staff member, alumnus, faculty member, or Charlottesville resident whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of the Latinx\/Hispanic community. The 2022-2023 Recipient of the Pablo J. Davis Award is <\/span>Frank Valdez<\/b>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bol\u00edvar Network is also pleased to announce the second\u00a0 recipient of the First-Year Scholarship, <\/span>Zachary Rios<\/b>, Class of 2026. The Bol\u00edvar Network\u2019s First-Year Scholarship provides funds for an exceptional Hispanic\/Latinx high school student from the Commonwealth of Virginia to incentivize them to attend the University of Virginia. Founded on the core principles of leadership and service to the Hispanic and Latinx community, this Scholarship recognizes the extraordinary talent of students in our community and their ability to create a lasting impact on the University, the surrounding Charlottesville community, and their future post-graduate plans. Currently a one-time scholarship awarded to an incoming student entering their first year, the scholarship committee plans to grow both the number of scholarships and amount awarded each year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about the Bol\u00edvar Network and these awards please visit our <\/span>website<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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AWARDEE BIOS<\/b><\/p>\n

Anthony Guevara<\/b>\u00a0 is a Salvadoran-Honduran member of the Class of 2023 majoring in Latin American Studies and minoring in Latinx Studies. His many organizational involvements include Central Americans for Empowerment at UVA (CAFE), the Latinx Peer Mentoring Program (PMP), and the Afro-Latinx Student Organization (ALSO). They also spearheaded change at the Native American Student Organization (NASU) by advocating for the inclusion of Southern Native students and their perspectives. Anthony is passionate about media representation. He hopes to work with Latinos in both the United States and Latin America \u2013 especially those often ignored by the general public such as Indigenous Latin Americans, rural-living Latin Americans, Black Latin Americans, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Paola Linares<\/b>\u00a0 is a Puerto Rican and Peruvian student of the Class of 2023. She is an Echols Scholar majoring in Political & Social Thought in the College and minoring in Public Policy and Leadership in Batten. She is currently working on a thesis about the sterilization of Puerto Rican women and how it is being remembered. In addition to being a Lawn Room Resident, she works as a Rotunda Student Ambassador and serves as the Co-President of the immigrant rights organization undocuUVA and the President of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated \u2013 which she helped revive alongside four other strong women at UVA. Her goal is to eventually go to law school to pursue her interests in immigration, family, or entertainment law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Corval\u00e1n Caba\u00f1as<\/b>\u00a0 is a member of the Class of 2023. She is majoring in Economics in the College, minoring in Foreign Affairs, AND she is ALSO pursuing her Master\u2019s in Public Policy at the Batten School! MJ was born and raised in Paraguay, and came to the States when she was 13 years old. She serves as the Spanish Translation Editor for The Cavalier Daily, where she expanded the Spanish translation section so translators can also write original content articles in Spanish on topics exclusively relevant to the Latinx community that could later be translated to English for wider access. She joined the Cavalier Daily team because she is passionate about the importance of combatting disinformation in Latinx communities. She is also a Education Policy Associate at the Virginia Policy Partnership Collaborative, an Economics Tutor, a member of the Batten Latinx Network Executive team, and a leader in Kappa Alpha Theta.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernando Casarotti <\/b>\u00a0is a member of the Class of 2024 at the Darden School of Business, where he is pursuing his MBA. Fernando was born in the countryside of Brazil. In addition to serving as a volunteer professor in his home country, he also worked with incarcerated minors in Brazil. He also managed an initiative to produce and distribute 1,000+ masks to families in the Brazilian countryside during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is involved with the Latin American Student Association at Darden (LASA) and the Consulting Club. He is also highly involved with the Darden Admissions Teams, where he seeks to support his peers and enhance their Darden experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Valdez <\/b>graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Global Development Studies in May 2021. He currently works at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville as a Youth Justice Program Organizer, where he works on a variety of issues including child welfare\/foster care and parent representation, education access and school discipline, and youth incarceration and juvenile justice. In the Charlottesville community, he is also part of Creciendo Juntos, a Latinx based community organization, through their high school mentorship program. Throughout his time at UVA, he was heavily involved with a variety of organizations including the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc., PLUMAS at UVA, the Hispanic\/Latinx Peer Mentoring Program, and The Virginia Youth Solidarity with Migrant\/Immigrant Workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zachary Rios <\/b>is a member of the Class of 2026 and\u00a0 is a talented math student, guitarist, and athlete. A current first-year at the University of Virginia, Zachary plans to double major with mathematics and astrophysics and after graduating wants to pursue a PhD for graduate school. A dream job of Zachary’s is to become an aerospace engineer. In Zacahary’s free time, you can find him fishing, wrestling, playing soccer, or hanging out with friends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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