Alpha Omicron Pi Prize Scholarship Winner: Jesse Ryan

The Alpha Omicron Pi Prize Scholarship honors students who best represent the combination of very high scholarship and significant participation in social service work.

Jesse Ryan (A21), an Anthropology and American Studies major, is a leader inside and outside of the classroom. Ryan excels in scholarship, engaged in several independent research pursuits, and served as a teaching assistant for two courses. Ryan also played important roles in organizing campaigns that have greatly improved equity and justice on campus. Jesse is lauded by one professor as one of the most “talented scholar-activists that I have encountered on this campus, or on any campus.”