Help a deserving student in NYC earn a degree

As a 6^th grade math teacher, Lystona is already living her dream. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Kittian father, she always wanted to be a teacher. Her childhood tutor inspired her love for math—making a once complicated subject fun and approachable.

At the urging of her parents, she began college as a pre-nursing student, but after two years, came to the realization that it was not the path for her. It took four more years of working multiple jobs and starting her own tutoring business before she returned to Hunter College to pursue a dual-B.A./M.A. in Adolescent Mathematics Education.

Her scholarship from St. George’s Society funded the entirety of her final year’s tuition.

“When I went back to school, I was working and commuting a lot just to get by. I had a little help along the way, but St. George’s Society was the saving grace I desperately needed.”

Having graduated in the spring of 2018, she now teaches at a pre-college academy in the South Bronx and still runs her tutoring company, Play.Math.Grow. Of her work, she says:

I strive to invest in my community members’ collective well-being so that they can use their healthy energy to transform themselves, their families and their communities. I believe that a classroom should never be limited in its exploration—that personal confidence is an integral component of success, that reciprocity at any scale can change the world, and that respect for self and others promotes peace.

Links:

• Learn more about our Scholarship Program

Since 2008, St. George’s Society’s Scholarship Program has helped low-income, final-year students complete their education and launch their careers. While we currently serve students at Lehman and Hunter Colleges—part of the City University of New York—we remain committed to our goal of expanding to CUNY institutions across all five boroughs of New York.

We hope to foster this expansion through Pathways, a corporate partners initiative launching this year. Pathways will allow companies to take an active part in closing the education gap and ensuring the future of tomorrow’s leaders.

By sponsoring scholarships over a multi-year period, participating companies can eliminate the financial barriers that often prevent low-income, high-achieving students from succeeding. Naming opportunities will be available as well as the ability to select recipients within a particular major.

We hope that companies will recognize their participation as not only a commitment to education, but also as an investment in corporate citizenship, social mobility and—ultimately—the long-term success of our New York community.

Links:

• Learn more about our Scholarship Program
• Download Pathways Corporate Partners brochure

• Pathways Corporate Partners Brochure (PDF)