The American Institute of CPAs Foundation has granted 2021 Minority Doctoral Fellowships to 25 doctoral students, as part of its effort to boost the representation of diverse accounting educators across the country.
Funding is provided by the Minority Doctoral Fellowship program, offering $12,000 to each student. Fellowships are renewable for up to an additional four years, assuming students continue to meet the proper eligibility requirements.
“The AICPA believes that increasing the number of diverse CPAs in the classroom is an important component to building a more equitable and inclusive accounting profession,” said Mike Decker, vice president of CPA examination and pipeline at the AICPA and CIMA, in a statement. “We look forward to seeing these scholars progress through their doctoral programs and ultimately help educate future generations of CPAs.”
All Minority Doctoral Fellows must be ethnic minorities and U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have earned a master’s degree or worked at least three years full-time in the accounting profession.
The 2021-22 Minority Doctoral Fellowship recipients, as well as the doctoral programs they are attending, are as follows:
- Mary Adebukola Adenle, The University of Texas at Austin;
- Christiana Antwi-Obimpeh, University of Texas - San Antonio;
- Jose Nicolas Arguello, University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
- David Gabriel Caceres, Florida International University;
- Moniquca Chappell, Florida State University;
- Asabe Adama Mairama Danpollo, Cornell University;
- Jewel Onyx Evans, University of Chicago
- LaToya Flint, University of Mississippi;
- Roberto Gonzales, University of Texas at Arlington;
- Paige Harrell, Emory University;
- Brittani Shantel Jackson, Indiana University;
- Devon Jefferson, Virginia Commonwealth University;
- Monica Kabutey, University of North Texas;
- Carissa Malone, Virginia Tech University;
- Tendai Masaya, Yale University;
- Timothy Edward Messenger, University of Oregon;
- Iguehi Rajsky, Temple University;
- Jeremy Richardson, Texas Tech University;
- Vernan Orlando Rivera, University of Connecticut;
- Edgar Rodriguez-Vazquez, University of Washington;
- Jessica Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
- Andrea Tillet, Florida State University;
- Raul Villamil-Otero, University of South Florida;
- Lawrence D'Andrea Williams, Florida Atlantic University; and
- Isaac Lord Yamoah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The 2022-23 application will be available on March 1, 2022. More information is available on ThisWaytoCPA's
