SPRING 2016

The latest information on how Point Foundation empowers change through education, mentorship, community service, and leadership development for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students of merit.

More than 400 people joined us at the iconic New York Public Library for our annual Point Honors gala in New York, April 11. The evening included the presentation of the Point Legend Award to Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis, who had just learned that his iconic image will appear on a box in the Wheaties Legends Series. Fellow Olympian Gus Kenworthy introduced Louganis and presented the award to him.

Pete Nowalk, Creator and Producer of ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder” received the Point Leadership Award, presented to him by Conrad Ricamora and Jack Falahee, who appear in the hit TV series.

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APPLICATIONS OVERVIEW

As the late January deadline approached for submitting the Point Foundation Scholarship application, the numbers kept climbing; 2,000 applications, then 2,100 and finally 2,215 completed applications were submitted! From there, 556 applicants advanced to become semifinalists. Thousands of hours have gone into reading applications, phone interviews and preparing for the in-person interviews with finalists at the end of April. The announcement of the 2016 Point Scholar class will be in June.

POINT HONORSNEW YORK

Pete Nowalk (L) was awarded the Leadership Award and Greg Louganis

received the Legend Awardat Point Honors.

Dear Friends,

Speaking in public, in front of hundreds of people, can be very scary. It takes courage, something Point Scholars and Alumni have in abundance. Point Alum Derrick Miller-Handley, and KPMG Point Scholar Tiffany Barillas, spoke to over 400 people who joined us for our Point Honors gala in New York in April. If they were nervous, it did not show. Their forthright voices resonated with the audi-ence and made us proud. Here are excerpts from their remarks.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

POINT ALUM DERRICK MILLER-HANDLEY:

What I would like to do is share with you a few of the things that I have learned being a part of the Point family: Take no one for granted. We need each other. At Point, this means that every member of this family has value and impact. Every scholar, alum, mentor, staff, board member and trustee is a resource, a leader, a shoulder you can lean on.

When I left the bay area to attend school in New York, Point Alumni immediately reached out to help make that transition a smooth one. When I needed support getting my community service project off the ground I knew who to go to. And during one thorny semester when I was having something of an exi- stential crisis, I called my mentor, Grant Shaffer.

Which leads me to something else I have learned: don’t wait to figure out who you are—just get started. Meaning you don’t have to have all the answers, especially to the big questions, in order to self-actualize.

Point, through the tremendous accomplishments of its scholars—each with their own story—has taught me to practice possibility with the intention of accomplishing great things in spite of whatever pain and self-doubt may surface.

TIFFANY BARILLAS

DERRICK MILLER-HANDLEY

KPMG POINT SCHOLAR TIFFANY BARILLAS:

Thanks to one of my mentors I decided to pursue a graduate de-gree. There are not many Latinos, first generation, gender-non conforming individuals in these graduate programs. So it be-came one of my personal goals to continue to break barriers.

I first learned about Point when I was trying to figure out how I was going to pay for grad school. Once I submitted my initial application, the entire Point staff and many others were very helpful in leading me through the rest of the application process and now as a scholar.

Two of my current mentors and role models are also part of the Point family: Jennifer Barbetta and Chris Crespo are individu-als I aspire to be in the business world…

Now I am also a mentor: my mentee Shantel is 16 aspires to also be the first in her family to graduate high school. She identifies as gender fluid, and I’ve been able to help guide her thru the challenges this poses with her family. I’ve also been able to help her plan for the college application process. Her identity and struggles reminds me of mine and I am extremely happy to help her in any way I can.

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We are grateful to all our event sponsors, attendees, and volunteers who helped make Point Honors an inspiring evening in support of our scholars.

Point is excited to launch a new program for community college students. The Point Community College Program inspires LGBTQ community college students to fulfill their ambitions of attending a four-year college or university. Students accepted into Point’s Community College Program will receive up to a $3,700 tuition scholarship, professional coaching to apply to four-year institutions, opportunities to network with the Point community, and invitations to attend conferences. The first class of Point Community College Scholarship recipients from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York, will be announced in June, making for a great LGBTQ Pride Month!

Top: Miss America 2013, Mallory Hagan holding the box of Wheaties with Louganis’s image.

Left: Point Foundation Board Co-Chairs James Cummings (L) and Kevin Chase.

Above: Our wonderful Point Scholars and Alumni.

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Left: 2016 Honors New York, Point

Legend Award honoree Greg Louganis

with Conrad Ricamora.

Below: 2016 Los Angeles Valedictorian

Society Event attendees Point Alumni

Brett Bruhanski, Zach Zyskowski,

Jennifer Wohlner, and Zach Lundin.

Above: New York Valedictorian Society

event, (R to L) Point Alumni Caroline Cox

Orrell and James Alexander with friends.

Right: Palm Springs Cornerstone Society

Event, Civil rights leader and author

David Mixner (2nd from left) with Point

supporters.

Left: San Francisco Point LEAD Consortium on Health and Medicine, Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) Executive Director Scott P. Campbell (center) with Point Scholars who received internships thanks to EJAF support.

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Two Point Scholars planning on pursuing careers in the financial services industry are bullish about their upcoming experiences at Goldman Sachs. Wells Fargo Point Scholar Angela Filley will be joining Goldman Sachs full-time in New York and Kevin Hummer Point Scholar Morgan Cheatham will also be interning this summer in New York.

Filley, who will graduate this semester from Columbia University with a BS in Computer Science, will be starting her full-time position as an analyst in the Technology Division supporting Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. Cheatham is studying Neuroeconomics at Brown University and will be interning in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division.

Point family currently at Goldman Sachs include Jennifer Barbetta, Vice Chair of Point’s Board of Directors, who is a Partner & Managing Director at Goldman Sachs within the Investment Management Division. Christopher Kawasaki, a Point Alum, is a Vice President on the Management and Strategy team in Goldman Sachs’ Securities Division. The company is a sponsor of Point’s summer 2016 National Leadership Conference and was also a sponsor of Point Honors in April.

“The focus of diversity recruiting at Goldman Sachs goes beyond race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or military service records,” said Johann Shudlick, Global Head of Diversity Recruiting at Goldman Sachs. “We are searching for candidates whose life experiences, educational credentials, personal challenges, and differentiated skills position them to uniquely and exceptionally contribute to the service of our clients, which is why Point Foundation is such a natural partnership for us.”

SPOTLIGHT ON PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY:

GOLDMAN SACHS

Point Scholar Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya will be Individual Community Grand Marshall of San Francisco’s June Pride celebrations. As explained on the San Francisco Pride website, “…Pride selects these groups and individuals as Grand Marshals in order to honor the work they have put

into furthering the causes of LGBT people.”

Point Board Member and Alum, Ryan A. Miller, received the 2016 Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award from NASPA, the national organization for Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Miller is Director for Inclusion and Equity at The University of Texas at Austin.

Fellow Point Board Member and Alum, Kim Hackford- Peer, received the 2016 Linda K. Amos Award

for Distinguished Service to Women from the University of Utah. Hackford-Peer

is the associate director of the University’s Gender Studies Program.

Kim Hackford-Peer

Ryan A. Miller

Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya

MorganCheatham

AngelaFilley

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Membership in the Cornerstone Society consists of

a group of dedicated individuals who annually sup-

port the important work of Point Foundation with a

minimum contribution of $500. Learn more about the

benefits of becoming a Cornerstone Society member

at www.pointfoundation.org/cornerstonesociety

The following list of donors reflects non-event contri-

butions to Point’s Cornerstone Society for the period

of July 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016. If you would like to

update the way your name is currently listed, please

email info@pointfoundation.org

$25,000 +Eric Carlson & Jonathan Eaton

Shelley Freeman & Joni Rim

Wendy E. Jordan

William J. Levy

Seth M. Rosen & Dr. Jacob Goertz

Douglas Wurth

$10,000 -$24,999Anonymous

Dr. Neal Baer & Gerrie Smith

Claudia Caine & Linda Naylor

John M. DeCiccio

Dana Dukelow

Blake Hunter

John Pritchard & Don Cummins

Robin Roberts

Edward W. Snowdon, Jr.

$5,000 - $9,999Anonymous

David Bailey & Ron Shalowitz

George Benes, MD & Michael Mallee, EdD

John Bockelmann

Dr. James M. Campbell

Bob Chambers

Jeffrey W. Davis & Michael T. Miller

Joanne Herman

Glenn Hessel & Mark Smith

Peter D. Lease & Edward J. Wood

Laurence Leive & Manuel Pereiras

Kirk Lester

Matthew Marks & Jack Bankowsky

Andy R. Ortiz

Stephen Parahus

John G. Pence

Brian Selznick & David Serlin

Karen A. Simonsen & Linda J. Sherline

Neil Spidell

Dan Stiffler & Kenneth Sullivan

Dierck Casselman & Scott Van Hove

$2,500 - $4,999Therese Bakker & Phyllis Carlson

Karl Baltes

Paul Blake

Michael Lowe

Joseph A. McCormack & Gary D. Hunter

Timothy W. McCormick & Jeffrey L.

Brizzi Scott & Janice McElhone

Nicholas McGegan & David Bowles

Tamara A. Menke

Dean Pitchford & Michael Mealiffe

Paul S. Prokop

Richard N. Sager & Family

David Seaman & Hugh Faulkner, Jr.

C. Grant Simmons

Blaze A. Stancampiano

E.H. Traynor

Robert Lee Troxler

Scott A. Webster & Peter Black

John P. Wolfarth & Kevin W. Powers

John F. Yee, MD

$1,000 - $2,499Anonymous (7)

Douglas K. Anderson

Jason E. Archambault & Neil Berenson

Jan Aronson

Austin Baidas

Jerry Balest

Richard Bannister

Sheryl A. Battit

Dennis M. Bauer

Emanuel Berger

Robert Boarman

Russell G. Bogue & Peter Lovello

Gary Booher

Kyrsten Bourdon

Grace Bowden

Chris Boyle

Mark R. Braun

Stephen Brockman

Malcolm Bruni & Richard Mortorff

Hayden Byerly

Dennis Carey & Bruce Taylor

Patty K. Cavey

Brian A. Cesario

Kevin Chase & Paulo Murillo

Timothy J. Bause & Martin S. Checov

Michael A. Cipresso

Timothy Collins

Brian C. Cooper

Douglas Cooper-Fleming

Alexander Cox

Therese Cresanti-Daknis

Cory Cruser

James Cummings & Justin Mohatt

Scott H. Dean & Ron D. Calvert

Erick Devine

Rochelle A. Diamond & Barbara Belmont

Kellie Dieudonne

Joseph DiVito

Thomas L. Enders & Donnie Garner

William Eppel

Edward Eskdale & Glenn L. Minton

Dennis Esposito

Dr. Ron Falcon & Chad Klasna

David J. Feldman

Michael F. Ferguson

Douglas Fiebelkorn

Richard Franceschini

Connor Franta

Domenic P. Gaeta

Edward Gatta, Jr. & Jonathan Vaccaro, MD

Gayle J. Gibson & Denise Beck

Orlando Gonzales

Daniel GullerCharles Hagstrom

Michael Hanel & Steve Linder

Richard Hanson & David Cillo

Jeff Harms & Pete MacLean

Ann Harty & Christa Hartmann

H. Benjamin Harvey

Gene Hawkins

Richard L. Hay

Jackson Hicks

Gary Hirshberg

Nace Hopple, Jr.

David K. Jordan

Edward H. Kaplan

Alvin TJ Kho

Keith King

Tim Kittleson & Michael C. Donaldson

David W. Knapp

Mark Kuehnert & Kevin Foltz

Sarah Laibstain

Dr. George M. Langlois & Clem Taylor

Stephen Lazar

Dr. Stephen Ledbetter

Griff C. Lee III

Aaron P. Leifer

Eugene R. Leyval & Daniel R. Varela

Nathan Lindstrom

D. Locklear

Elliott J. Mackle

Jordan Markwith

Susan Masters

Michael J. McGaughey

CC, Niles, Cindy & Gavin McQuiston

Troye Mellet

Jeremy L. Mickel

David Mixner

Jim Murdaugh

Jeffrey Nanney

David & Nancy Napalo

Allan Nault & Robert Nance

Paul Neumann

Jeffrey Newton & Jonathan Starcovic

Timothy E. O’Connell & Larry Little

Sean O’Connell

John O’Leary

Richard J. Olesko

Stephen Oremus

Lynn & Martha Pease

Brett Peeler

Clay Petre

Chip Pierson & Don Camarda

Michael D. Poirier

Joseph T. Realmuto, Jr. & Paul Korenberg

Peter S. Reichertz

N. David Roberts, Jr.

David S. Roberts

Douglas O. Robson

Howard Roffman

Steve Rostine & Tom Burke

Scott W. Rotella

Ronald Rutherford & Ronald Triche

Casey P. Ryan

Jack L. Sapolsky, MD & Richard H. Bordeaux

William Sargent

Dick Schwarz & Tom Massey

Victor Shargai

Joseph Shreve

Matthew W. Staman & Marin Alan Quezada

Francine Stein

Daniel R. Stephen

Brian Stevens

Ken Thaxton

Donald R. Traser & Thomas W. Reid

William A. Trotter III

Michael Uetz & Nick Rave

Scott Vaughan & Rene Amaral

Tom & Kelli Viloria

Charles Walsh

Doug Wasitis

Roger F. Wery & Rolf DeVegt

Gary White

Blake E. Wilcox

Thomas P. Wilczak & Steven R. Quinkert

William Wilder & Charles Kelley

Jeff Willard & Steve Mahan

James Williams & Marc Wenderoff

John Young

John S. Yuille

Dr. Joseph Zibrak & Chris George

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$500 - $999Anonymous (6)

Jill Adler & Dr. David Adler

Douglas Amarelo

William J. Anderson, Ph.D.

B. Douglas Anderson

Timothy Paul Andre

Anthony Archambault

Joel & Pamela Aronson

Steven & Jay Backhaus

Gary A. Baier

Richard Bankowitz

Rohan Barrett

Neil Beecher & Vern Richards

Eric Beesemyer & Randy Barone

Jeremy P. Birnholtz

Michael W. Bridges

Thomas Broderick

Ross E. Bryan

David Buchan

Jeffrey Buczynski

Jack Butler & John VanderLinden

Joseph Cacciola & Thomas Trykowski

Carla A. Caesar & Nora M. King

Troy M. Calkins & Dr. Robert I. Liem

Edward Campanero & Alan Weisberg

Thomas Carmichael

Thomas Carpenter

Judge Tom Chiola (Ret.)

Christian J. Clayton & Paul Baumann

Henry Cofield

Chris Coleman & Matthew Turner

Andrew Colleran

Walter Combs

Jason R. Conyard

Ron Coonelly

Thomas F. Cornell

Mark Crewson

John Cummiskey

Ron F. D’Alonzo

Andrew Daulton

Pamela E. Davis

Jeffrey Demma

Adam T. Derrick

Duane M. DesParte & John C. Schneider

Eric Dingler

Steven Dion

Lauren Drinkwater

John Ducote & Kenneth W. Barnes

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

John Evans

David Ewing & Marc Ockerman

Dr. Robert M. Farner

MJ Feuster

Brent Fisher & Jim Rinnert

Jeffrey Fishman & Daniel Carter

Leo Flynn

Robert Fountain

Greg Franzer & Christopher Casey

Brian Frasier

Dr. Lawrence Frateschi

Kevin J. Frisch

Evan C. Futterman & Lonnie Moon

Maria L. Garcia-Moliner & Clifford V. Gayley

Robert Garris

Wendell J. Garwood

Robert Gaskins

Jay W. Gendron

D. Grant Gilbert, MD

Edwin F. Gladbach & Kevin O’Brien

Andrea & Martin Glenn

Len & Nanci Glogauer

Robert Goldberg

Tony & Judy Goldman

Dr. Joseph Gordon

Noel Gordon

David Gray

Gregg Greenough & Vaughn Waters

Mark Groshek, MD & Carl Clark, MD

Robert A. Hacker

John Hall

Julian Hamer

Philip N. Hamric

Michael Harding

Carolyn & William Harper

Frank Hartley

Muhammad Hasan & Jennie Virgilio

Eileen P. Heinrich

Mark E. Hemling

Herbert Bruce Hensley

Derral R. Herbst

John Edward Hill & Luis Laviena

Kevin K. Hill

David Hood

Andrew Hornbrook

Casey J. Horton

William A. Houlette

J. Myrick Howard

Steven Howley

Jay Huemmer

Jack Huffman

David Jablonowski & John Peller

The Honorable Jack N. Jacobson

Kevin R. Janes

Wil J. Jobse

Michael W. Johnson & Michael Justice

Thomas Johnson & Bruce Genaro

Dennis Jory & Michael Smith

Martin M. Kamen

Peter Kapinos

Peter Kearns & Dan Egerter

George H. Keller

S. Patrick Kelly

Mary Jo Kennett

Matt Kessler & Darren Doutt

Dr. Bruce King

Guy W. Kirk

John Klai & Jon Sparer

Glenn D. Koch & Scott Scott

Charles B. Krenzler

Dr. Susan Kubica

Daniel Lass

Lawrence Levine & Herbert Glaser

David Levithan

Andrew Z. Linsky

Alexander J. Lisicky

Randy Lowe

Eric J. Lynn & Scott R. Kenney

Robert R. MacDonald, Jr., MD

Chris MacLean

Steven Maginnis

Camryn Magness

Gregory Maguire

Scott & Fiona Malzahn

James W. Mann

Steven Martin

Lisa Maska

Michael Maulano

Edward May

David J. McChesney & Thomas G. Roberts

Brian McComak

Kirk McKusick & Eric Allman

Michael E. McManus

Gary M. McNamara

Randy Mears

David Merrill, Jr.

Mary Metaxas

Jonathan Metrick

Lisa Middleton & Cheryl O’Callaghan

Davis Mikaels

Dr. Ryan A. Miller

Jason Molchanow & Mark Zipperer

Robert Moon & Robert Hammack

Mr. Bob Myre

Raghuvar Nadig

Liza & Billy Near

Daniel S. Newton & Christopher L. Flynn

Richard Nilo

Kevin C. O’Neill & Kevin J. Burns

Lida Orzeck

Steven J. Paggioli

George Pao & George Schulman

Bonnie Park & Jackie Ryan

Michael Patrick

Donald Patterson

Stephanie & Stacey Peel

Dr. Laura Peracchio

Brian Peterson

Timothy Peterson & Richard Gerrig

Benjamin & Kathryn Pfaff

Kip O. Plaisted

Greg Plowe

William A. Pohlchuck

Scott D. Pomfret

David Prindable

Dr. Ivan Pulinkala

Sandra Raffealli

Irwin M. Rappaport

John Reay

Matt Reitsma

Jonathan Ressler

Thomas Retan

Brian Reyes

Clifford Richner

Richard L. Rogers

Kristina Romero

Robert Rook

Rian Rooney

Eric Rubin

Ron Rudolph

Robert Safro

Ken M. Sanchez

Robert C. Sash

Leslie Schafer

Audrey Schlaepfer & Judith Bennis

Brian Schneider & Rob Lieberman

John Schwartz

Ronald Schwarz

Curtis L. Scribner

Sean P. Seamster & Hardy L. Daniel

Dr. Lindsay Sears-Tam

Marlene Share

Peter W. Sheil & Bruce Batchelor

Richard H. Shoemaker & James E. Ruud

Mitchell C. Siegel & Jeffrey T. Overman

John L. Simmons

Dr. Rae Siporin

Kenneth Smith

Paul So

Jennifer Sobieski

Alejandro Soejarto

Ivia Somerville

Terry Sonterre & Rodney Lawrence

Alan & Pamela Sorkin

Richard P. Stahl

Peter Steckelman

Lisa & Robert Stevens

Robert E. Stevenson

Kenneth Sullivan

Maria M. Sutter & Maura C. Shannon

Ralph Tardugno & Dave Corbin

Mathew S. Thoennes

Albert Thompson

Ty Robert Thornton

The Somaini Family

John & Kathleen Tierney

Geoffrey W. Tuba

H. James Vesterby

Christopher Francis Vicente (in loving memory)

Ron Wallen, in memory of Tom Carrollo

Clifford Watts

Harold Weidman

Gary Weinstein

Ralph L. Pellecchio & James C. Wernz, M.D.

Professor William Wesbrooks

Geoffrey Westergaard

Bruce Churchill & Scott White

Jay S. Wiley

Paul M. Wilson & David E. Settje

Scott Wilson

Stefan J. Wysocki & Irwin H. Zolcover

John Yang

Robert G. Young & Mario Gallego

Gregory Yu

Richard Ziegelasch & Patrick Campion

Joseph Zipkin

Zach Zyskowski

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July 21 - 24, 2016 in Washington D.C.

WWW.POINTFOUNDATION.ORG/NLC2016

May 12 Washington D.C. Cornerstone Society reception

May 12 Denver Cornerstone Society reception

Jun 5 Los Angeles Cornerstone Society reception

Jun 21 San Francisco Cornerstone Society reception

Jul 20-21 LEAD on Policy & Law, Washington D.C.

Jul 22 Leadership Dinner, Washington D.C.

Aug 6 Hamptons Cornerstone Society reception

Oct 1 Los Angeles Honors

Oct 27 Chicago Cornerstone Society receptionE

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