October 2024 Connections – Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation


Coke Scholar Receptions

CCSF hit the road in September, visiting Coke Scholars in Boston, New Haven, Princeton, Philadelphia, and Chicago, connecting with over 225 Scholars!

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Boston area Coke Scholars with CCSF Board Member Mark Francoeur, President of Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast.
2024 New Haven Reception 16 2024.09.30
Coke Scholars and future Scholars in New Haven
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Lunch with Coke Scholars in Princeton, NJ
2024 Philadelphia Reception 04 2024.09.30
Philadelphia Coke Scholars Reception
2024 Chicago Reception 13 2024.09.30
Coke Scholars in Chicago

Slices for Scholars

Coke Scholars on campuses across the country connect over pizza and Coke.

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Johns Hopkins Coke Scholars Raghav Tripathi, Omar Reyes, Sara Kaufman, Saumik Das, Daniel Mathew, and Kiara Smith enjoyed pizza together.
Slices for Scholars Auburn 2024.10.10
Auburn University Scholars Ayden Kemp (2018) and Sophia Weber (2024) grabbed Cokes at Whataburger.
Slices for Scholars UMK 2024.10.10
Hiteshi Patel, Ayush Shah, Joel Setya, and Fatima Iqbal enjoyed Cokes together at Jimmy Johns near the University of Missouri – Kansas City.
Slices for Scholars Rice 2024.10.10
Rice University Scholars Vincenzo Damato, Sanjana Kavula, Michael Gonzalez McNeil, Jerron-Michael Arline, Saanya Bhargava, Shivani Gollapudi, Julie Trinh, and Raymar Turangan connected over Cokes at Home Slice Pizza.
Slices for Scholars Columbia 2024.10.10
16 Coke Scholars met up for pizza and Cokes at Columbia University, including Ananya Bhatia (2023), Grant Baxter (2022), Kynnedy Smith (2021), Reesa Venterea (2024), Cara Wreen (2023), Richa Shukla (2024), Yunseo Kim (2023), Laalitya Acharya (2021), Alexander Fan (2022), Zainab Tahir (2016), Kaden Oqueli-White (2022), Aakash Suresh (2024), Gautam Ray (2024), Sofia Polar (2024), Gitika Gorthi (2022), and Maraki Tamrat (2023).
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Yale University Coke Scholars Bernadette Nwokeji, Rena Liu, Irene Kim, Zoey Duan, and Ryan Chen met for a meal at Zeneli Pizzeria in New Haven.

Building Bridges Workshop

Juliana Tafur (2003), Bridging Differences Program Director of The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, led the second of 4 workshops in a series, Compassionate Listening, where Scholars explored the science of finding shared identities without ignoring individuality.

Compassionate Listening group shot

Coke Scholar Meet Ups

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Caroline Ciaramitaro (2018) and Rebecca Wang (2024) posted in Coke Scholars Connect that they were hosting a dinner for local Scholars in San Francisco at the True Ventures office downtown and 60 Coke Scholars showed up!
Connections San Francisco Vanilla Coke Meet Up 2024.10.14
Some 2023 Scholars who couldn’t make the San Francisco meet up just said no to FOMO and got together for Vanilla Cokes!
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Cesar Aviles (2000), John-Paul Adrian (2003) and his wife Amanda, and Carolina Weber (2009) and her husband Chris
attended the Hispanic Heritage Awards in DC at The Kennedy Center
as guests of The Coca-Cola Company.
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2004 Scholars Quinton Lampkin, Geraldine Pierre, and Bryan Nails got together in DC recently as they do every couple months.
Connections Justin Pearson Jane LaQuanda 2024.10.09
Justin J. Pearson (2013) was in Atlanta for a fundraiser, and CCSF’s Jane Hopkins and LaQuanda Prince saw him briefly while he was in town.
Connections Harvard Yale Game 2024.10.09
Scholars met up at the Harvard Brown football game!
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TJ Abrams (2001) and Nekia Hackworth Jones (1995) served together at Buckhead Church in Atlanta.
Connections Raina and Paisley Tabor 2024.10.09
Raina Zuri (2023) and Paisley Tabor (2024) connected over Cherry Coca-Cola Zeros.
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CCSF’s Carolyn Norton visited with Felicia Michael (2003) while she in Atlanta for a conference…
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…and Maria Wilson (2004) in Lexington, KY…
alumni connections Carolyn and Carrie
…and Carrie Regan (1989) in Knoxville, TN!





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