Humans of
Global Scholars

“I come from a favela in São Paulo and I grew up here. I didn’t really know a lot about the city until I got a scholarship when I was eleven.”

“I'm more like my father than I am my mother. He was also very much a math person and so was his sister, who I got the math gene from.”

“If I can inspire one kid to believe in themselves, to understand that education and working hard, could save their future, it really matters to me.”

“Growing up in Western Kenya, one of the challenges I observed was that very few people were educated. It was worse for girls.”

“If there is one thing that has kept me going, it’s my mother—probably the most optimistic and hardworking person I know.”

"One thing I realized is that if you're willing to learn something, you can learn it, if you’re willing to work hard."

"I enjoy overcoming struggles, but the process is what I really live for, tackling things that I have no idea how to tackle and gaining experience and intuition."

“I see myself leveraging technology that I've learned over the years to create systems for wide-scale, social impact.”

“I always knew that I wanted to get a good education somewhere else in order to be able to help my country in a better way.”

“My parents grew up on communist rations, so I am one generation away from living on rations. They told me stories.”

“I want to financially support a cohort of students from my community and to provide a mentorship network for them.”