I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northern Kentucky University with my Bachelor of Science in Accounting in May 2015. As an accounting major, becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) was an academic/career goal I had set for myself. Immediately following graduation I began studying for the four part Uniform CPA Examination. I passed each section of the exam by December 2015.

In January 2016 I began my career as a Tax Staff Accountant with Ernst & Young in Cincinnati, OH. Today I am a licensed CPA and a Senior Tax Accountant within Ernst & Young’s Global Compliance & Reporting practice.

I am thankful for the financial assistance received through the John F. Miller Scholarship Program and the impact it had on both my academic and career goals/achievements.

I attended Arizona State University (ASU) from 2010 through 2015, graduating summa cum laude with my Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy and a minor in Communications in 2014, and completing my Master of Accountancy degree in 2015. I have been an active CPA licensed in the state of Arizona since 2016.
These achievements would not have been possible without the financial assistance of foundations or programs like the John F. Miller Scholarship Program. Such assistance paved the way for me to pursue my academic and athletic goals without losing sleep over how I was going to pay for my education, or worrying that I might have to give up my athletic dreams so that I could find a job or place more focus on my academic priorities

I attended Ohio State from 2008 to 2013, first majoring in biochemistry, then evolution and ecology, which is the degree I graduated with. I later became interested in the legal aspects of the pharmaceutical industry after enrolling in a Pharmaceutical Science program the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. I am extremely grateful to Tecta America and it’s generosity in allowing me to use the John F. Miller Scholarship to reduce my college loan amount. I finished with a high GPA (~3.6+) in graduate school and am doing similarly well in law school.

Receiving the John F. Miller scholarship has aided me in my college career. I had the opportunity to travel abroad in Botswana Africa where I worked at a local hospital and lived at the university for a month I was also co-founder of The Purple Gala, and raised money for those affected by the opiod crisis in southeastern, OH. In May of 2018, I graduated from Ohio University’s School of Nursing and that summer I started my first job as a nurse on the Organ Transplant unit at Ohio University. In arly 2019 I transferred to the Medical Surgical Unit at Mercy West Hospital. I am incredibly thankful to Tecta America in helping me get here.