The Nilda Vazquez Linger Scholarship honors the memory of Nilda Vazquez Linger, who cared about social justice and especially about issues affecting immigrants and abused women and children. The scholarship provides a free ticket to the full South & Appalachia Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, November 1, 3 & 4, and up to $250 to offset travel, lodging or meal expenses for attending the Summit.
The scholarship is intended to help recipients use creative placemaking strategies to enhance the lives of immigrants, abused women or children, or marginalized people in a place of their choice. Scholarship recipients are expected to gain knowledge or skills that will help them build new or better partnerships, projects, programs or policies, and are expected to prepare a report of their progress by May 2023.
Six recipients will be selected for this opportunity. The deadline is September 23.
About Nilda Vazquez Linger
Nilda Vazquez Linger was a mother, wife, psychologist, artist and former financial executive who came to the United States from Argentina as a girl and grew up in a working-class family in Staten Island, NY. As a bilingual school psychologist in New Jersey, she became an advocate on issues affecting immigrant families and abused women and children. She died of cancer in 2018.
Members of her family will be selecting the recipients for the scholarship, which is managed by Creative Placemaking Communities.
Eligibility
Anyone is eligible to apply for this scholarship. Preference will be given to applicants who are:
Immigrants or first-generation Americans; Black; Hispanic/Latino; Asian-American or Pacific Islander; Native American/Alaska Native/First People, Mixed Race, LGBTQ+, or women
Helping, in a professional or volunteer capacity, improve the lives of people of color, low- and moderate-income people, abused women and children, or that are suffering trauma due to racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, or other kinds of systemic oppression.
Artists, designers or makers in any genre who are using, or want to use, their practice to benefit marginalized or traumatized people.
Deadline
The deadline to apply for this opportunity is September 23. Recipients will be notified by October 1.
Questions? Please contact Leo Vazquez at leo@cpcommunities.org
