East Hampton Resident Wins ESL Scholarship from Peconic Bay Zonta

Julieta Medina won a $350 scholarship from Peconic Bay Zonta, a nonprofit group that works to improve the status of women and girls. The local Zonta group, which covers the East End of Long Island, awards the scholarship twice per year to a female student who successfully completes level 3 of the English as a Second Language program at the Riverhead campus of Suffolk County Community College and is studying to achieve an educational goal.

“This scholarship helps me and others financially, but above all, it is the motivation to continue forward,” Medina wrote in her scholarship application. “My future plans are to continue studying immigration law in order to help the migrant community to solve their legal problems.”

 

Medina, who is employed as a housekeeper, resides in East Hampton with her mother, five brothers, and two daughters. She expects to give birth to a son before the end of 2022. A native of Colombia, Medina has been in the U.S. for almost three years. She studied business and marketing for two years at a university in Colombia and is now interested in pursuing immigration law because she has a great deal of experience in it through helping 16 of her family members to complete all the necessary immigration documents upon entering the U.S. 

Encompassing the East End of Long Island, Peconic Bay Zonta is affiliated with Zonta International, a nonprofit organization that seeks to build a better world for women and girls.