Fulvio Dobrich New Americans Scholars  | Yuanjun Gao
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2011-2013
Yuanjun Gao, a native of Hunan, China, is pursuing an electrical engineering major at the Grove School of Engineering. Through this experience, he has developed a passion for immigration-related issues and for communicating with people from different countries and different backgrounds.
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 | Narwan Madani
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
Narwan Madani, a native of Afghanistan, is double-majoring in Jewish studies and international studies. Narwan’s goal is to pursue a law degree and focus on women’s rights and immigration policies to assist vulnerable women in the developing world.
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 | Rinosha Majeed
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2011-2013
Rinosha Majeed, a native of Sri Lanka, is a biomedical engineering student at the Grove School of Engineering. Rinosha’s goal is to build a bridge between engineering and policy-making and to shed light on the importance of biomedical devices in health care.
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 | Paola M. Mercedes
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
Paola M. Mercedes, a native of the Dominican Republic, is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in political science with a concentration in law and policy. She is a fierce advocate for the rights of immigrants and for access to quality education.
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| | Anastasiya Panas
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2010-2012
Anastasiya Panas, a CUNY Baccalaureate student, is pursuing a double major in international and Eastern European studies. A native of the Ukraine, Anastasiya has a particular interest in issues facing Eastern Europeans as a result of the collapse of Soviet Union and the transition to democracy and capitalism.
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 | Tori-Ann Preston
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
Toni-Ann Preston, a native of St. Catherine, Jamaica, is pursuing a dual degree in international studies and political science. In her freshman year of high school, she participated in the Junior State of America program, where for a month she attended classes at Yale University on policy issues, attended weekly policy symposiums, and debated fellow high school students from around the world.
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 | Shantanu Roy
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
A native of Bangladesh, Shantanu Roy is an international studies major and history minor. He came to the United States six years ago, and in 2006 was enrolled at Newcomers High School. There he had the opportunity to integrate himself into a highly diverse environment with students from around the globe, an experience that, he says, helped him to visualize the world from different perspectives.
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 | Alen Sajan Malliath
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2011-2013
Originally from India, Alen Sajan Malliat immigrated to the United States with his family in 2004. A biomedical engineering major and a member of the City College Honors program, Alen plans to attend medical school to become a psychiatrist.
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 | Ahsan Sayed
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2011-2013
Ahsan Sayed, a native of Bangladesh and a student of the Macaulay Honors College, was certain for years that his future lay in the field of medicine. However, he also developed an intense passion for political science, which he refused to acknowledge as a viable career path.
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 | Nisha Tabassum
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
Nisha Tabassum, a native of Bangladesh, is a second-year international studies major in the City College Honors program. Her goal is to address youth development in developing nations, an interest shaped by three years of volunteering with the All Stars Project, Inc., a nonprofit youth organization that provides quality after-school programs for inner city youth.
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 | Tanya Uddin
Dobrich New Americans Scholar, 2012-2014
Tanya Uddin, a native of Bangladesh, is a biomedical engineering student at the Grove School of Engineering. An immigrant to the United States who came to this country when she was 2, Tanya hopes to improve negative views of immigrants living in the United States.
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