The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights would like to announce Adonis Cherry and Nyemah West as the first recipients of the Mimi Soltysik Memorial Scholarship Fund. 

Adonis Cherry just graduated  high school in Las Vegas, NV. He will be attending the Sage Colleges in New York. He has been active in a local food bank, the Special Olympics, and the Miracle Baseball League. 

Nyemah West just graduated high school in Connecticut. She is a member of the NAACP, the Minority Student Coalition, and, March for Education Foundation.  

This scholarship is present in the honor of Mimi Soltysik. In addition to being an Educator for the Maggie Phair Institute, Mimi was a community activist and presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, USA in 2016.