Native American Pepperdine Doctoral Student Receives Scholarship

MALIBU, CA — Sasheen Shailee Colegrove Raymond didn't have many Indigenous role models growing up, but using her doctorate in Global Leadership and Change from Pepperdine, Raymond is going to change that.

Raymond received a $10,000 scholarship from the Morongo Indian Reservation for her doctoral program at Pepperdine. She wants to use the skills she gains at Pepperdine to make the education system more inclusive through policy change, the Pepperdine Graphic reported.

Native Americans make up less than one percent of graduate students in the U.S., according to the Graphic.

“As an Indigenous person, there’s not a lot of Indigenous leadership models that are actually out there right now and being utilized,” Raymond told the Graphic. “I’m hoping to continue my studies in that, and then be able to implement that wherever I decide to go in the future.”

Raymond will also do volunteer work with the Indian Tribal and Educational Personnel Program at Humboldt State University, a support program that helps Native American students with their academic programs.

The other recipient of the scholarship, Britney Vargas, will study at Fort Lewis College in Colorado.

Read the full coverage from the Pepperdine Graphic.