2025 ARE Scholarship Winners!

Congrats to our three 2025 scholarship award recipients of VANOMA’s FIRST annual Diversity ARE Scholarship: Kamar Shafeeha Shagul Hameed, Prakhyaa Mukesh Jain, and Gerardo Hernández Trias. 

The $750 award funds exams and study materials to support each licensure journey. From all of us in the Professional Development Committee (PDC), kudos on this achievement and may these scholarships help to illuminate the path ahead.

VA NOMA is committed to increasing the number of licensed minority Architects within the industry, and the purpose of this scholarship is to support minority associates and underrepresented emerging professionals with financial assistance to complete their exams. Lookout for the scholarship to reopen in March 2026 and apply! Learn more at vanoma.org/are-scholarship.

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