Pictured left to right, Elizabeth Dial Pinkerton, director, President’s Commission on White House Fellowships; Barry Griswell, chairman of the board, Scholarship America; Bob Ballard, CEO, Scholarship America; and Connie Myers, Nelson Mullins policy advisor.

Scholarship America, the nation’s largest nonprofit, private-sector scholarship and education support organization, celebrated 33 Scholarship America Dream Award recipients – students with financial need who have overcome significant barriers to make it to college – at a reception held in the Rotunda Room at Nelson Mullins’ Washington office Tuesday.

Dream Award recipients are from all over the United States and include aspiring engineers, doctors, nurses, scientists, a biochemist, geologist, communication majors, a speech pathologist, and those focused on the television/film industry, finance/accounting, and political science.

Scholarship America is a nonprofit organization that helps students fulfill their college dreams. Since 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $4.2 billion to more than 2.5 million students. The organization works with partners to lower barriers to a college education and give students the support needed to succeed. Learn more at scholarshipamerica.org.