A letter from Mary Anne Adams, Executive Director.

"Acknowledged, our dreams can shape the realities of our future, if we arm them with the hard work and scrutiny of now."

- Audre Lorde

Dear Friend:

In September, we achieved a landmark by awarding fifteen $1000 scholarships to an amazing group of gay and lesbian scholars. You are included in the we because you have been supporting this scholarship fund since its inception with your dollars, encouragement and support. The Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund is proud of its continued growth and its record of dispensing $70,000 in scholarship funds over the last few years.

Because we are the only national fund that specifically targets outstanding African-American (out) lesbians and gay men who attend any accredited post secondary institution in the United States; we have become a vital and necessary funding source. Again, your sustenance and generosity allows us not only to administer the fund but to also provide flights, lodging and meals for the scholars in an annual weekend ceremony lauding their achievements.

Please meet our 2003 Scholars*:

• Sadiqua Bey Memorial Award: Kendra G. Mann, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
• Marlon Riggs Social Justice Award funded by David Gillespie: Charles Stephens, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
• Sheryl Burke Award: Leslie Johnson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Crystal Wiley, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA and Tineka Johnson, Ross University, Edison, NJ
• Ronald Moore Humanitarian Award: Melissa Gordon, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
• Sharon Mendon Award: Andreka N. Brundage, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
• Hannah Guishard Award: Hagar Pleasant-Bey, Trinity College, Washington, DC
• Sherry Turner Award: Cristel Serena Miller, Rice University, Houston, TX
• Ruth Ellis Award funded by Wendy Belkin: Clarice Thompson, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS and Sharon Thomas, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA
• Keiron Williams Hero Award funded by Kevin Bynes: Louis Dixon, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
• Tony Daniels Ally Award funded by ADODI Muse members, Duncan E. Teague, Malik M.L. Williams and Anthony Antoine: Skyler Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Cherie Caldwell Award: Shayna Robinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  Special Award- Mary Anne Adams-Edith Biggers Leadership Award: Melissa Gordon, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN

  * Unless, otherwise noted, the 2003 awards are named after the person (s) who donated the scholarship.

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In Community Spirit,

Mary Anne Adams,
Executive Director
ZAMI