Meet this year's Emerging Scholars below.
Ulysses Alvarez
Ricardo Millhouse
Leah Mungai
Abba Ramadan
Changzhen Wang
Airic Hughes
Paola Monterroso Diaz
Niyi Omidire
Ashly Romero
Ishita Tandon
Jordan Alvarez
Sharday Ewell
Munkaila Musah
Kaniz Afroz Tanni
Will Dwayne Thomas
Adania Flemming
Christian Garcia
Marisa Pacheco
Lynsey Saunders
Elder Varela
Huimin Cheng
Damion Dixon
Lọla Fagbami
Alex Morales
Tiago Pereira
Zakary Clements
Pasama Cole-Kweli
JungHee Kang
Erica Macon
Paris Wheeler
Tagimamao Bean
Caitlin Charles
Stacy Imagbe
Sirazum Munira Tisha
Xiaochen Zhao
Alicia Arrington-Thomas
Krishna Chaturvedi
Ashley Jones
Rashun Miles
Sheerah Neal Keith
Destiny Crockett
Frank Ong'ondo
Lianqun Sun
Shonna Tillman
Christian Zamiela
Duke Cruz
Ifeolu David
Austin Lawrence
Carlos Rivera
Rowena Woode
Franklin Gause
Chunyan Li
Parthenia Luke
Marcus Sharper
Amber Wallace
Sean Callahan
Davis Carter
Lucia Elgerud
Natasha Ellis
Melody Huslage
Mustafa Abdelrahman
Mahtab Heydari
Mia Kreitlow
Symone McCollum
Tori Spencer
Maria Lopez Cavestany
Hidahis Mesa
Alexandra Rosado Roman
Indrayani Waghmare
Olawunmi "Taiye" Winful