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Amarillo NAACP Names Scholarship Recipients

The Amarillo Branch NAACP has named its 2019 scholarship recipients.

According to the NAACP, the organization will honor the recipients at a reception on May 9th, at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza. At the same time as the scholarship awards, the group will also honor teachers of the year Kami Collins and Aaron Phillips, along with a special recognition award to be given to Coach A.J. Johnson.

Scholarship recipients are listed below in alphabetical order. Recipients with an asterisk by their names indicate NAACP Community Scholars.

  • Wafaa Abdalqader - Tascosa High School

  • Ana Aguilar* - Palo Duro High School

  • Javian Allen - Palo Duro High School

  • Bennie Anderson II - Tascosa High School

  • Irene Arroyo* - Palo Duro High School

  • Elsabet Ayalew - Tascosa High School

  • Andrew Boggs* - Caprock High School

  • Lauren Burrell - Tascosa High School

  • Alan Castorena - Tascosa High School

  • Jacob Contreraz* - Caprock High School

  • Jade Crowder* - Caprock High School

  • Joaquin Cruz - Caprock High School

  • Savanna Darnell - Amarillo High School

  • Ana Duron - Palo Duro High School

  • Hunter Easton - Palo Duro High School

  • Paw Law Eh - Palo Duro High School

  • Emily Balderas-Escobar - Palo Duro High School

  • Nathalie Fernandez - Palo Duro High School

  • Nyah Gonzalez - Caprock High School

  • Zammeryque Greene - Palo Duro High School

  • Jonathan Guerrero - Caprock High School

  • McKenna Guiterrez - Tascosa High School

  • Jacinda Hawk - Caprock High School

  • Phillip Hearn - Caprock High School

  • Kevin Hua - Tascosa High School

  • Devan Reck-Irvin - Tascosa High School

  • Ruth Lerma - Palo Duro High School

  • Yenci Lopez - Caprock High School

  • Chloe Marmitt - Tascosa High School

  • Karina Martinez* - Palo Duro High School

  • Kali McDonald - Tascosa High School

  • Valarie Miles* - Amarillo High School

  • Bishro Muhumed - Palo Duro High School

  • Alan Munoz - Palo Duro High School

  • Aloni Ndihokubwayo* - Palo Duro High School

  • Caroline Nolen - UTSA

  • Jimi Nshimirimana* - Caprock High School

  • Tyson Ortiz - Tascosa High School

  • Paola Patino* - Palo Duro High School

  • Joe Perez - Palo Duro High School

  • Kashynna Polite* - Tascosa High School

  • Jade Ramos - Caprock High School

  • Ethen Rattana - Palo Duro High School

  • Alessandra Rendon* - Tascosa High School

  • Alyssa Robinson - Tascosa High School

  • Kenyon Shaffer - Tascosa High School

  • Andres Soria - Caprock High School

  • Ciarra Thurmon - Caprock High School

  • Charles Ware - Palo Duro High School

  • Bailey Woodard - Tascosa High School

  • Brittany Wilhelm - Amarillo High School

  • James Virgen - Tascosa High School

  • Ah Mee Yah - Palo Duro High School

Photo by NAACP Amarillo

Photo by NAACP Amarillo

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