About the scholarship program

Since 2000, Serotonin Surge Charities has sponsored an annual scholarship program for graduating high school seniors who have a parent working for Kaiser Permanente in the Greater Sacramento region (Roseville, Sacramento, South Sacramento medical centers and their associated clinics).  Students are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in academics, extracurricular activities including athletics, leadership, and community service.  Nearly 200 students have each been awarded $1000 to help pursue their higher education at outstanding universities throughout the country.  Beginning in 2014, the scholarship will change its name from the Maggi Carlile Memorial Scholarship to the Serotonin Surge Thrive Scholarship.

Our 2013 scholarship winners

Front row:  Josephine Jang (New York University), Kelly Jiang (George Washington University), Josephine Kao (UC Berkeley), Camille Andre (UC Davis), Julia Dasen (UCLA), Alison Vogelsang (University of Southern California), Chelsea Finch (Sacramento State University), Juli Carlile.  Back row:  Nick Paiva (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Brad Wong (Tufts University), Andrew Towery (UC Berkeley), Andrew Keane (Merchant Marine Academy), Mitchell Rosenberg (University of Washington), Gokul Asokan (UC Berkeley), Kristopher Jolly (UCLA), Natalie Serdahl (University of Southern California), Tony Carlile.

Previous winners:
2012
Jennifer Wirt, Katie Sobeck, Mallory Barnes-Ohlson, Ellie Haugen, Julianna Struthers, Ravi Sharma, Madeline Ochi, Lindsey Wong, Rachael Vasquez, Vineeth Gangaram, Kevin Shi, Logan Thomsen, Jordan Gilles, Kunal Marwaha, Spencer Cho.

2011

Andrew Chen, Dominic DeMarco, Nikita Desai, Stephanie Golahi, Dorothy He, Dayna Isaacs, Ade Jackson, Joyce Lau, Gina Messer, Shane Ransbury, Diana Raveica, Thomas Weber, Stacey Wong.

2010

Pradhan Bhat, Samuel Bloom, Kathryn Bohn, Diane Browne, Corinne Johnston, Joshua Klem, Casey Leong, Emily Lipson, Gavin Moler, Matthew O’Brien, Teresa Palkowski, Cameron Santo, Sharonya Shrivastava

2009

Joshua Bardet, Christina Chow, Rachel Gyorffy, Matthew Jaehn, Alan Le, Robyn Leong, Julia Nguyen, Daniel O’Brien, Tegan Schmidt, Jeffrey Tamaru, Abigail Weber, Elaine West, Yssa Yap

2008

Tyler Chuck, Katie Dailey, Elaine FitzGibbon, Michelle Gloster, Rachel Gutmann, Katherine Henka, Lisa Inouye, Jaron Moler, Alyssa Ransbury, Emily Schoenhoff, Brooke Stevens, Laura Stewart, Brian Wong

2007

Rebecca Bobell, Christina Jenson, Janet Jin, Tyler Kern, Rachel Koh, Shemsa Morkoch, Rebecca Prock, Anthony Puccinelli, Sarah Rawls, Kyle Rimando, Emily Ross, Daniel Schwarz

2006

Lucy FitzGibbon, Brian Friederich, Shawnibr Gogia, Daniel Hart, Rachel Haynes, Shannon Kendal, Kaitlyn Kelly-Reif, Christine Lee, Colleen Lenahan, Keith Lui, Derek McCoy, Kevin Okimura, Keith Schwarz

2005

Jenny Calert, Jenna Chandler, Hannah Edber, Janelle Gyorffy, Jasmina Hamidovic, Susan Harris, Halsey Jakle, Alicia Kidd-Gonzales, Matthew Koh, Christina Maddox, Jason Patel, Jeremy Whiting, Krystine Yu

2004

Timothy Bardet, Samantha Berman, Jeffrey Blair, Anne Chang, Wendy Chiong, Gina DiGusto, Leslie Jacobe, Kimberly Halpin, Lesli Huey, Brian Inouye, Melissa Kirkpatrick, Kristen Palchak, Matthew Traub

2003

Henry Adams, James Astorga, Angela Bartholomew, Adrian Dokey, Mark Evans, Mariko Ferronato, Leah Fine, Terrence Frink, Ryan Hunter, Dana Leong, Charles Rayner, Rajan Sonik

2002

Melissa Allison , Emily Blodget, Caitlin Buggy, Matthew Cropp, Ryan Cummings, Nicole Gomez, Kevin Lui, Elisabeth Turner, Gina Warren, Erin Webb

2001

Eleanor Branch, Corey Cox, Binh Dao, Maureen Kiley, Edward Rayner, Julie Snider, Sonia Sonik, Ashley Svardal, Bethany Williams, Kimberly Yee

2000

James Blomo, Kyle Booterbaugh, Ravinder Gogia, Julie Green, Kilianne Kostlan, Brent Locsin, Bret Loughridge, Kellie Moorison, Eric Ostrem, Carolynn Rosales, Raven Schultz, Katy Steer, John Talaga