Scholarship Recipients

Galen is a perfectionist by nature and gets satisfaction in things runing efficiently. As a former law student, he likes to make sure rules are followed and that they are fair and sensible. Such values and skills have made him the perfect president of Hillegass-Parker House. Galen plans to become a lawyer after gradauation, and later return to school to teach law. He truly appreciates the co-op because of the ready-made community of fellow students that has made graduate school much less isolating.

Morgan Crawford

Recipient of the Alumni Association Grant awarded to a co-oper on the basis of need and involvement in the co-ops.

FROM: New York, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas, and California
CO-OPS: Kingman Hall
MEMBER SINCE: Fall 2009
MAJOR Rhetoric:

Morgan values his co-op experience primarily because of the amazing people he has met within it. However, as a food nut who extolls great pleasure from a good meal, the food within the co-ops comes as a close second. Morgan's passion and leadership within the co-op comes from his sense of trust and empathy for others. Morgan currently serves as the Disabled Accessibility Coordinator within the BSC.

Maha Haji

Maha Haji Recipient of the Harper Puziss Scholarship awarded to a UCB student mostly on the basis of coop involvement, then academic achievement, and finally on financial need.

FROM: Pembroke Pines, Florida
CO-OPS: Davis
MEMBER SINCE: Spring 2007
MAJOR: Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics

Maha currently serves as chair of the Information Techinology Committee, currently charged with overhauling the BSC's technology infrasturcture. At her house, Maha's passion turns to cooking. while cooking dinners or baking desserts for snack for the house, Maha receives the satisfaction of working cooperatively with others in a part of the house that affords the most social interaction, as well as enjoying the applause her housemates give her for her delicious efforts. After finishing up her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, Maha hopes to go to on to graduate school to study Ocean Engineering. Ultimately, She would like to design a low-cost device that can harness wave and ocean energy that may bring cheap and clean electricity to developing communities.

Adina Lepp

Recipient of the Alumni Association Grant awarded to a co-oper on the basis of need and involvement in the co-ops.

FROM: Portland, OR
CO-OPS: Oscar Wilde, Kingman Hall
MEMBER SINCE: Spring 2006
MAJOR: English

Outside of her commitment to her co-op community, Adina is active with the Mills cross-country team, the Jewish Student Association, and the queer community. Her contribution to an NPR piece on urban renewal in Oakland won her an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.