Hathaway Brown Student Named U.S. Presidential Scholar

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH — Each year, a select group of students earn the rare honor of being named U.S. Presidential Scholars. This year, only 161 graduating high school seniors earned that designation and Hathaway Brown School's Yasmine Zein was one of those students.

Zein will be honored through the National Recognition Program and will be a guest of the U.S. Department of Education at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in June. Zein will meet government officials and educators and be greeted by President Donald Trump. During the event, she will receive a U.S. Presidential Scholar medallion.

The Princeton University-bound Zein is also a 2019 inductee into the Cum Laude Society. She's also a Hathaway Brown lifer, having attended the all-girls school starting in kindergarten.

Zein is multilingual, speaking French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic. She recently earned first place in the annual LE CONCOURS de la Maison Francaise de Cleveland, a contest judging participants on their oral proficiency in French.

The graduating senior has been an intern and student liaison with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. She is the founder of Hathaway Brown's Junior Council on World Affairs, co-founder and co-president of the school's Film Club: Cultural Exploration.

Zein also won honorable mention in Scholastic's Art and Writing Awards for her essay, "Immigration: Who Do We Let In."

Hathaway Brown has produced 10 previous U.S. Presidential Scholars: Regan Brady ’17, Lina Ghosh ’17, Isabella Nilsson ’16, Kavya Ravichandran ’16, Alyssa Bryan ’13, Laney Kuenzel ’08, Amy Hollinger ’05, Edith Hines Williams ’00, Caroline Campbell ’98, and Genevieve Mathieson Kilmer ’96.