2021-2022 Recipients

The Board of Directors of the Iranian-American Scholarship Fund (IASF) is grateful to all who have supported this Scholarship Fund for the past 22 years. Scholarships for the 2021-22 academic year have been awarded to 15 outstanding applicants. This brings our total to 369 scholarships awarded to date. Congratulations to this year’s incredible recipients.

 

2021-22 Undergraduate Recipients

 

Nakisa Barzani Sadeghi, Harvard U – Public Health                         

  • The Massih and Haleh Tayebi Annual Scholarship
  • The Belghys Tayebi Annual Memorial Scholarship (1)
  • The Habib Tayebi Annual Memorial Scholarship (2)                   

 

Jonathan Eyshi, Florida Int. U – Medicine                                        

  • The Behrooz and Nasrin (Owsia) Akbarnia Annual Scholarship            
  • The Mahmood and Fereshteh Mahdavi Annual Scholarship                   

 

Delana Sobhani, Harvard Law                                 

  • The Fred and Gita (Khadiri) Khoroushi Annual Scholarship
  • The Mojdehi Family Scholarship                       
  • The Bahram and Manijeh Manoocheri Annual Scholarship (3)

 

Noah Javan Rofagha, Georgetown U – Public Policy              

  • The Galen A. and Jaleh A. Etemad Family Fund Annual Scholarship

 

Emon Alavi, Philadelphia College – Osteopathic Medicine                   

  • The Khosrow Nasr Memorial Scholarship (4)
  • The Rointun Bunshah Annual Memorial Scholarship (5)                                                   

 

Armaghan Mardashti, Noorda College – Osteopathic Medicine

  • The Jafar Farnam Annual Scholarship           
  • The Hormoz Azar Scholarship                                     

 

Saba Daneshpooy, Rowan U – Medicine               

  • The Shamsedeen Zayanderoudi Annual Memorial Scholarship (6)

 

2021 Undergraduate Recipients

 

Mona Amirseyedian, UC Irvine – Political Science                                         

  • The Farhang Mehr Memorial and Parichehr Mehr Honorary Annual Scholarship (7)
  • The Zarrinkelk Family Scholarship                

 

Deana Moghaddas, UC Los Angeles – Data Theory                                       

  • The Persian Cultural Center and ISSD Annual Scholarship                
  • The AIAP (Association of Iranian-American Professionals) Annual Scholarship
  • The Habib and Sharareh Hariri Annual Scholarship

 

Tarah Anasseri, Florida Int. U – Psychology                           

  • The Hossein Samadi Memorial Scholarship (8)
  • The Hassan Julazadeh Memorial Scholarship (9)
  • The Fereydoon Mehrayin Annual Memorial Scholarship (10)

 

Madelyne Yasameen Etami, George Washington U – Public Health

  • The Zari Loghmani Honorary Scholarship (11)
  • The Payam Scholarship (12)
  • The Peyman and Maryam (Famourzadeh) Farhat Annual Scholarship

 

Sepanta Sarraf, UC Berkeley – History                                

  • The Galen A. and Jaleh A. Etemad Family Fund Annual Scholarship
  • The Jamshidi-Zadeh Annual Scholarship

 

Rojan Javaheri, USC – Neuroscience & Piano                                  

  • The Soheil Nasiri Annual Memorial Scholarship (13)
  • The Golamreza & Mozzaian Bagherzadeh Memorial Scholarship (14)

 

Cyrus Parsa Hatam, Princeton U – Public & International Affairs                    

  • The M. Ali Aghassi Annual Memorial Scholarship (15)            
  • The Susie and Kazem Niamir Annual Memorial Scholarship (16)

 

Kylie Rae Martin, Boise State U – Science Health

  • The Morteza Ansari Memorial Scholarship (17)

 

The scholarships listed by numbers have been established by: (1 & 2) The Tayebi Family (3) Mr. and Mrs.Thomas Kassebaum and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Manoocheri (4) Family and Friends (5) Mrs. Zohreh Firoozabadi Bunshah (6) Mr. & Mrs. Shahyar Zayanderoudi (7) Family and Friends (8) The Samadi Family and Friends (9) The Julazadeh Family (10) Mr. and Mrs. Kourosh Mehrayin (11) The Bagheri and Estakhry/Aghassi Families (12) Ms. Parisa Khosravi and Payam (13) Ms. Roya Parviz and Mr. James Henderson (14) Ms. Lili Forouraghi (15)  Ms. Sarah Aghassi, Esq (16) Mr. & Mrs. Fuller (17) Family and Friends.

 

Our sincere thanks to the following (and those who wish to remain anonymous) for making the 2021-22 Scholarships Possible:  Behrooz and Nasrin (Owsia) Akbarnia, AIAP, Sarah Aghassi, Siavash Akhgarnia, Pouran Amin, Sanam Ansari, Ommid Asbaghi, Kazem Attai, Hormoz Azar, Ghazal Badiozamani, Kaveh and Soraya Bagheri, Kourosh and Mahsheed Bagheri, Baharak, Zohreh F. Bunshah, Capital Group (Michael Triessi), Arsalan and Sholeh Dadkhah, Simin Darian, Ramin Elahi, M. S. Emami, Nicole Entezari, Shahri Estakhry, The Galen A. and Jaleh A. Etemad Family Fund, Aria Fani, Nadia Farjood, Laura Farjood, Jafar Farnam, Roya Fathiamini, Safa Farnam, Lili Forouraghi, Sheryl Frakes, Maryam Niamir and Richard W. Fuller, Mohammad Hassan Ghaed, Ali and Anna Gheissari, Kasaan Hammon, Habib and Sharareh Hariri, Pari Hashemi, James Henderson, Ali Hosseini, ISSD, Mohammad and Jila Jamshidi-Zadeh, Laleh Javanbakht, Sussan Johnsen, Shahrzad Julazadeh, Julazadeh Family, Anahita Kalantar, Thomas and Marjan Kassebaum, Rassoul Ketabian, Yasmin Keyvan, Fred and Gita (Khadiri) Khoroushi, Samira Khazai, Hamid Kheradmandnia, Fereshteh and Mahmood Mahdavi, Paasha Mahdavi, Maheronaghsh Family, Bahram and Manijeh Manoocheri, Michael and Katie Manoocheri, Mehran Mehr, Kourosh and Farnaz Mehrayin, Ali and Haida Mojdehi, Azita Mokhtari, Kamyar Monsef, Reyhane Mostofi, Nahid Nader-Hashemi, Hafez Nasr, Ziba Nasr, Cheryl Navidi, Mehregan Nejat, Network for Good, Vahid and Adeleh Niki, Farnaz Noohi, Roya Parviz, PCC, Pledgeling Foundation, Morteza Rahimi, Isabel Rohani, Negin Sabbaghian, Ali and Ludi Sadr, Manouchehr Salehi, Samadi Family, Mahmood and Fereshteh Sarram, Ali Sasani, SDG&E, Majid and Negar Shahbaz, Behnaz Shahidi, Leila Sharghi, SHINE Coaching and Consulting, Homa Smith, Golsa Soraya, Sara and Kourosh Taghavi, Haleh and Massih Tayebi, Mahsa Vahidi, Virasb Vahidi, Baharak Zali, Mehdi and Mardjan Zarabi, Majid Zarrinkelk, Shahyar and Laleh Zayanderoudi, Sholeh & Bijan Zayer.