Our Story
In 2006, our founders, a group of Midwest natives who had the opportunity to attend colleges such as Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Brown, got together with the goal of providing talented young women from the Midwest with these same kinds of educational opportunities.
They created the Joyce Ivy Foundation and launched the Summer Scholars program to give talented young women from the Midwest the chance to venture from home and experience life on the college campuses of our partners first-hand.
Read MoreWhat we do
We raise the college aspirations of the next generation of female leaders by:
- Providing scholarships to participate in pre college summer programs
- Empowering young women with college information at high-quality, free events across the Midwest and virtually
- Leveraging financial aid resources at partner colleges and universities
- Maximizing our network of college counseling and admission professionals
- Connecting young women to a supportive community of mentors, advocates and friends
- Igniting the potential and passion that exists in each young woman
Where we are
To date, the Joyce Ivy Foundation has named 972 Scholars from Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota. These Scholars go on to attend college throughout the Midwest and around the country.


Class of 2021 College Matriculations
- Augustana College
- Baylor University
- Belmont University
- Brown University (4)
- Case Western Reserve University (2)
- Columbia University (2)
- Cooper Union
- Cornell University
- Creighton University
- George Washington University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Grand Valley State University
- Harvard University (8)
- Hillsdale College (2)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lawrence University
- The Ohio State University (2)
- Princeton University (2)
- Purdue University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Saginaw Valley State University
- Smith College
- Stanford University
- University of Chicago
- University of Dayton
- University of Michigan (12)
- University of Nebraska Lincoln (2)
- University of Nebraska Omaha
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2)
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania (2)
- University of South Carolina
- University of Southern California
- University of Toledo
- Washington University in St Louis (2)
- Wayne State University (2)
- Wellesley College
- Xavier University
- Yale University (2)

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Brittany Knight
Executive Director
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Oluwakemi Dauda, JIF '16
Director of Programming
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Eva McCord, JIF '19
Director of Fellows
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Nadia Schreiber
Vice President of External Relations
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Jeremy Weprich
Chief Design Officer
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Erich Bagen
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Fred Blanck
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Valerie Brader
Board Vice Chair
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Erica Cameron
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Allyson Carpenter, JIF '12
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Audrey DiMarzo
Board Secretary
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Kim Easter
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S. Caroline Kerr
Board Chair
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Greg Lewis
Board Treasurer
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Michael Pritula
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Emily Taylor
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Tiffany Taylor
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Aditi Adhikari, JIF '14
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Katharine Janes, JIF '12
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Emma Taylor Philip, JIF '15
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Ashley Lane, JIF '15
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Abril Rangel Pacheco, JIF '13
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Jasmyn Samaroo, JIF '08
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Abby Waugh, JIF '15
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Michelle Zabat, JIF '13
Fellows
The Joyce Ivy Foundation Fellows are high school and college students who are passionate about making college more accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds. Fellows are alumnae of the Joyce Ivy Foundation Summer Scholars program who wish to pay it forward. They contribute to the Foundation by serving as mentors, planning committee members, project leaders, advisors, and innovators.
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Chisimdi Aguwa, JIF '20
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Hannah Ajogbeje, JIF '21
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Cady Barterian, JIF '20
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Lexi Born, JIF '20
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Saloni Chaurasia, JIF '21
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Rana Elladki, JIF '18
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Abigail Elwell, JIF '17
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Sarah Erickson, JIF '20
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Elise Essenmacher, JIF '20
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Jillian Evans, JIF '21
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Bhagee Ganesan, JIF '16
Co Head of Podcast
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Faith Griffiths, JIF '19
Co Head of Podcast
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Disha Iyengar
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Mosammad Jahan, JIF '20
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Jada Lee, JIF '20
Head of Outreach
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Youngseo Lee, JIF '19
Co Head of Alumnae Giving
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Maggie Lin, JIF '21
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Izzy Luca, JIF '20
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Taylor Lucas, JIF '20
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Emma McIntyre, JIF '20
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Riley Mehall, JIF '21
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Shubhra Mishra, JIF '20
Co Head of Fellow Relations
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Michaela Polley, JIF '18
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Shamrin Salam, JIF '21
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Mira Sanghvi, JIF '14
Head of Data
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Cecile Schreidah, JIF '19
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Autumn Shelton, JIF '17
Co Head of Fellow Relations
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Jennifer Shim, JIF '21
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Louisa Stuhec, JIF '21
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Natalie Trakanrungsi, JIF '19
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Carly Wheeler, JIF '20
Co Head of Alumnae Giving
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Himani Yarlagadda, JIF '21