Scholarship recipients Luke Gianni, Talia Kennedy, and Gilberto Ramirez. Photo by Tamara Keith.

$6,000 Earl "Squire" Behrens scholarship is awarded to Luke Gianni, who will be pursuing a degree in journalism at CSUS.   He currently works as a reporter for the Woodland Daily Democrat.

$3,000 Jean Stephens scholarship is awarded to Talia Kennedy, who is a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.   Talia was born and raised in Sacramento.

$1,500 California Chicano News Media Association/Sacramento Press Club scholarship is awarded to Gilberto Ramirez, who will be studying photojournalism at SFSU.   He has been serving in the position of Photo Editor for the Express and Mainline, the campus newspaper and magazine of Sacramento City College.

Scholarship committee leaders Gina Garcia and Edie Lambert. Photo by Adam Gottlieb.

The scholarship committee and recipients with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. Photo by Adam Gottlieb.

The scholarship recipients with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. Photo by Tamara Keith.

The scholarship recipients with SPC president John Myers.