Puffs with Purpose
How J.J. and wife Catherine are preventing childhood food allergies one puff snack at a time
Vision and Advocacy Overcome Lack of Resources
For Mary Kathryn Covert Steel, going to college was far from a certainty. She grew up in a blue-collar family with a dad who drove a bulldozer and a mom who was a secretary. For much of her childhood, the family didn’t have a car. Because she never took college for granted, Mary Kathryn studied…
The Path to Public Service Leads Home
Michael Tubbs, who grew up on the south side of Stockton, CA, with a single mother and a father in prison, became the first Coca-Cola Alumni Legacy Scholar in 2008. “My aspirations for the immediate, near and long term future are to do everything I can to put my community on the right track.” After…
Exceeding High Expectations
In Johana Oviedo’s journey from a port city in northern Colombia to medical school at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, she has had to overcome much more than physical distance. Her mother brought her to Miami, FL, on a tourist visa when she was nine years old and decided they should stay in the…
Someone Saw My Potential
“I took the Coca-Cola Scholars mission of changing the world very seriously and it has translated into every aspect of my life and influenced who I am.” For Philip McAdoo, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has always been like a second family, helping him through tough decisions and sharing his celebrations as an actor, an educator,…
Relentlessly Striving to Give Everyone a Fair Chance
In Sanskrit, the word, “sama,” means “equal” and it’s a fitting prefix for the three organizations Leila Janah has founded: Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA. She even has “sama” tattooed on her wrist as a persistent reminder of what she feels she was put on the earth to do: create a more level playing field that…