2025 Recipients

Alabama
Martin Rodriguez

Alaska
Gail Pokorney

Arizona
Julia Files
Karen Nichols
Karolina D. Perez
Ashini Shah
Sunil Sharma
Mehtab F. Siddiky
Amy Nicole Sussman
Bijin Thajudeen
Emily Tishkoff
Aman Verma

Arkansas
Stacy C. Zimmerman

Bangladesh
Rafiya Afroz
Abul Kalam Azad
Khan Abul Kalam Azad
Md Shafiqul Bari
MA Faiz
Faizah Binte Farid
Md Azizul Haque
Homayra Tahseen Hossain
M. Mosaddek Hossain
Mohammad Belalul Islam
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam
Madhabi Karmaker
Sabrina Monsur
Mamun Mostafi
Nawsabah Noor
Chandanendu Bhushan Sarker
Mahbuba Shabnam
SGT Khwaja Nazim Nazim Uddin
Rubina Yasmin
Mohammad Zahiruddin

California
Likitha Y. Aradhyula
Deepak Asudani
Harsiman Bajwa
Meredith B. Barnes
Nissma Bencheikh
Zea Borok
Daniel L. Bouland
Lana Bridi
John M. Carethers
William Carroll
Luis Castellenos
Irma Luisa Ceja-Martínez
Jacqueline Chow
Natalie Colaneri
Lauren Donovan
Cesar A. Gonzalez
Rajesh Gulati
Paul J. Han
Sharjeel Hassan
Andrew Hwang
Leepakshi Johar
Scott Kubomoto
Mahesh G. Kumar
Brian K. Kwan
Tammy L. Lin
Rakesh Malhotra
Jennifer Poast
David Pugach
Lakshmi K. Puvvula
Karthik Ramesh
Rita M. Rossi-Foulkes
Alfred Sadler
Ashley A. Scanlon
Jonathan H. Scott
Gregory H. Shimizu
Paul F. Speckart
Joanna Sung
Laxmi A. Suthar
Graham Treasure
Howard V. Williams

Caribbean
Christine E. Chin
Elan Harewood-Forde
Johanne A. Marceus
Christian N. Paulsingh
Je-Vaugn S. Wynter

Central America
Juan D. Barrios

Chile
Christian I. Von Muhlenbrock

Colorado
Teresa Braden
Mark K. Matthews
Matthew Moles
Robin Richard
Eric Seger
Jennifer Stichman

Connecticut
Benjamin Cherry
Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger
Monica Lockwood
Naseema B. Merchant
Denis Miller
Ruth Weissberger
Anthony Yoder

Delaware
Kunal P. Bhagat
Marci L. Drees
Grace Y. Kwon
Lilian E. Msambichaka
Darshan K. Patel
Theodore F. Saad

District of Columbia
Randi C. Abramson
Ali Ahmed
Katie G.C. Anderson
Caitlin Crowther
Bhumika Gandhi
Gail Kerr
Prashanth Ashok Kumar
Helen Lavelle
Henry Masur
Marco Mercader
Miriam B. Michael
Brad B. Moore
Clint Pettit
Tasha Phillips-Wilson
Rachel Robbins
Andrew Shorr
Sean Whelton
Christa Zerbe

Florida
Jose M. Baez
Zein Barakat
Carmel J. Barrau
Anas Bizanti
Stefanie R. Brown
Juan Carlos Cardenas
Karen A. Echeverria-Beltran
Luis Alberto Isea, Sr.
Olgo Karasik
Todd L. Sack
Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch

Georgia
Lora Denton
Joseph Hayes
Tracey Henry
Sarah Neault
God-dowell Odukudu
Jorge Pimentel
Rafael Ponce-Terashima
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber
Jean Sumner
Antoine Trammell
Reed Tuckson
Feyi Ward

Hawaii
Lisa A. Camara
Brandy Kaneshiro-Yeung
Sandra Loo
Ashley Morisako
Yoshito Nishimura
Helen Sim
Arvin Tan

Idaho
Charles M. Crane
Magni Hamso

Illinois
John M. Flack
Denise Marie A. Francisco
Liza G. Icayan
Josune Natalia Iglesias
Gaurangi Mittal
Peter Phan
Balakrishna Ravella
Ashley Tang
Katherine M. Tynus

India
Sahil Ahmad
Jyoti Bajpai
Smitha Bhat
Ashutosh Chaturvedi
Anupam Dey
Preeti Dhoat
Pallaavi Goel
Aniket V. Inamdar
Deepak Kanayalal Jumani
Anchin Kalia
Amandeep Kaur
Mohammad K. Khan
Mehek Khanuja
Mano Harshadan Kolandasamy
Gokul Krishnan
Ravi Kumar
Satish Kumar
Robin George Manappallil
Vinod Mittal
Alok S. Modi
Muzammil Mohammed
Soumyaranjan Mohanty
Sirshendu Pal
Akash Paruthi
Chandni Radhakrishnan
Sandeep Rai
Mohammed Riyaz
Satrajit Roy
Sidharth S
Renu Saigal
Ambari Firdous Shaikh
S. K. Singh
Suresh Kanna Subramaniam
Jaishree Swain
Amanpreet S. Wasir

Indiana
Jenny Baenziger
Whitney Fraiz
Warren Gavin
Folake O. Ishola
Areeba Yusuf Kara
Samantha Kay
James E. Ong
Maria Parker Spector Robles
Lindsey Temnykh
Claire Willard

Iowa
Rachael R. Dirksen
Michael McLoughlin
Lisa A. Veach

Japan
Kota Minami
Mamiko Ohara
Ayako Tanji

Kansas
Samuel Akidiva
Daniel Dejong
Stephanie Dobler
Nikki Miller
Bridgette Molenda
Benjamin Quick
Raj Shah
Rachel Sigler

Kentucky
Muhammed Alvi
Heba Boustany
Rodrigo Cavallazzi
Riley Crawford
Grace Essandoh
Zachary Fortenberry
Reagan Grider
Brian Nickles
Shannon Ripley
Claire Sanford
Kaitlyn Shrake
Nicholas Stone

Louisiana
Dayton William Daberkow II
Philip A. Haddad
Joseph D. Landers

Maine
Rebecca Hemphill
Hani T. Jarawan
Christopher Wellins

Maryland
Gail Berkenblit
Lauren B. Bernard
Melvin S. Blanchard
Joseph B. Cofrancesco
Evelyn W. Gathecha
Jyotsna B. Gummadi
Christopher J. Haas
Ravitej B. KhunKhun
Christina Koch
Steven J. Kravet
Rameen J. Molavi

Massachusetts
Kannu Bansal
Elisa Choi
Petal L. Elder
Ibrahim Kamel
Jodian Pinkney
Gregory R. Schwartz

Mexico
Juan Carlos Anda
José Halabe Cherem
Luis Enrique Fernández Garza
Ángel González-Romero
Gilberto Hiram Acosta Gutiérrez
Luis Montiel López
Dora Alejandra Leyva Maldonado
Julio Cid Ortiz
Eva María Perusquia
Constantino Ponce
Axel Pedraza, Sr.

Michigan
David Cooke
Corey Dean
Megan Dekker
Josephine Patricia Dhar
Raymond Hilu
John Hunter
John Jarad
Leonard Johnson
William Keimig
Naji Khairallah
Odaliz Abreau Lanfranco
Miriam Levine
John Maurer
Adesuwa Olomu
Cara Poland
Rimma Polevoy-Davis
Jeffrey Rohde
Allison Ruff
Parul Sud
Brittany Tayler

Minnesota
Karthik Ghosh
James S. Montana
Brian Kirti Muthyala
Michael Sundberg
Ben E. Trappey

Mississippi
Joseph S. Moak, Jr.

Missouri
Michael P. Fuller
Sara E. Gardner
Amanda Harrel
Woo J. Moon
Fariha Shafi

Montana
Alexis Albersch

Nebraska
Sophia Cima
Bradley W. DeVrieze
Lauren Dentinger
Gale M. Etherton
Alec Hildenbrand
Carrie Hoarty
Ali Bin Abdul Jabbar
Kathryn M. Kim
Olivia Makos
Ian A. Monroe
Chydubem Nwaiwu
Debra J. Romberger
William A. Shiffermiller
Christopher J. Smith
Samantha Stoupa
Joseph Thirumalareddy
Landon Withrowdan

Nevada
Birjees Ahmed
Edwin Avallone
Kimberly C. Bates
Maia Carter
Amber Champion
Mitchell D. Forman
Sean Kandel
Nicholas Maalouf
Disha Mehta
Jeffrey Murawsky
Shalini Reddy
Pinak Shah
Faizan Sheraz
Scott Silver
Sneh Sonaiya
Sonila Ziu

New Hampshire
Kelly Kieffer

New Jersey
Elizabeth Cerceo
Nayan K. Kothari
Jane Neuman
Kathleen Pergamentash

New Mexico
Betty Chang
Chantel Dockstader
Dana Fotieo
Andrew N. Issa
Michael H. Kaufman
Elizabeth C. Lawrence

New York
Martin Miguel Inocencio Amor
Douglas DeLong
Camile Gooden
Paul Kuperschmid
Cori Salvit
Evan D. Siau
Vasundhara Singh
Kristin Swedish

North Carolina
Debra Bynum
Stephanie A. Call

North Dakota
Anyamaria Edwards
Fadel Nammour

Ohio
LT COL Kathryn Marie Burtson
Douglas J. Federman
Varalakshmi Janamanchi
Mohammad G. Mohmand
James C. Pile

Oklahoma
Michael Weisz

Ontario
Lori Israelian
Suni Johnson
Eric S. Leith
Vipan Nikor

Oregon
Paula Folger
Stephanie Griffith
Mari Kai
Preston Peterson
Jenny Silberger
Karen Weiss

Pennsylvania
Divya Sistla

Prairie Provinces
Neil Gibson
T. Lee-Ann Hawkins
Rahim Kachra
Joel Nkosi
Jeffrey Schaefer

Puerto Rico
Amanda S. Alvelo
Arelis Febles
Hilton Franqui-Rivera
Bryan Monge

Quebec
Pierre McCabe

Rhode Island
Kanishka Uttam Chandani
Mery Deeb
Arkadiy Finn
Erica J. Hardy
Audrey R. Kupchan
Basma Merhi
Harlan G. Rich
Vijairam Selvaraj

Saudi Arabia
Chams Albachir
Mohammed Albitar
Ghada Alghamdi
Ahmed Alhawamdeh
Salwa Aljarayhi
Abeer Alkhawlani
Abdulaziz Alnasser
Maha Alsaiari
Reema Alsweed
Naif Alzamil
Rojina Fathalrahman
Eman Ijaz
Amnah Kashkari
Nida Maryam
Yara Mulia
Ihab Sulaiman

South Carolina
James Adamson
David Giovannini
Sandra L. Weber

South Dakota
Mohammad Ahmed
Martha Holstein
Tina Melanson
Michael Wilde

Tennessee
Chinelo N. Animalu
Rachel K.P. Apple
Michael D. Leahy
Brock T. Mitchell
Liana J. Mosley
Sandra A. Moutsios
Vitrag S. Patel
Janet Purkey
Ashley Sundin
Venkata Vedantam
Robert A. Vegors

Texas
Jerry Fan
John Flores
Alexander Gajewski
Manasi S. Kekan
Roger Khetan
Mariela P. Lane
Lonzetta Newman
Megan Newman
Prasannalaxmi Palabindela
Prabhat Singh

U.S. Air Force
Mark W. True

U.S. Army
Austin Baraki
William Bowers
MAJ Carlie Cerne
MAJ Kimberly Fabyan
Chelsea Garner
MAJ Mary Gasser
COL Joshua Hartzell
MAJ John L. Kiley
COL George R. Mount
CPT Benjamin S. Prewitt
MAJ Lisa C. Townsend
LTC Robert Walter
Peter E. Wikoff
MAJ Matthias Williams

U.S. Navy
Debra Buckland-Coffey
Michael W. Burns Jr.
LCDR James M. Day
CDR (ret) Tri Lac
CDR Peter Z. McIntyre

Utah
Matthew Bryan
Harris L. Carmichael
Darin D. Checketts
Anthony G. Musci
Analisa Taylor
Anna Tidwell

Venezuela
Samir Kabbabe

Vermont
Priscilla W. Carr
Mark E. Pasanen
Elly A. Riser

Virginia
Cayleigh Blumrick
Z. Chris
Danielle Johnson
Timothy V. Johnson
Wendy S. Klein
David C. Lieb
Anthony L. Marino
Grace Prince
Sami G. Tahhan
Eileen C. West

Washington
Caitlin Allen
Logan Bailey
Gary C. Forbes
Divya Gollapudi
Zach Gottschalk
Joseph “Joey” Parker IV
Bindu Nayak
Eric Wien
Christopher J. Wong

West Virginia
Kristen Helmick

Wisconsin
PAVE (Protect, Advocate, Validate, and Educate)
Abdul Wahab Arif
Keshani Bhushan
Shobhina Chheda
Ian Gilson
Laura Hawks
Sophie Kramer
Apurva Popat
Rupesh Prasad
Brian Quinn
Ahmed El Shaer
Jeffrey Smith

Wyoming
Kathleen DiVincenzo