2019 American Indian Business Scholarship Award Winners Announced

Press Release

Sep 20, 2019

MESA, AZ – The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (the National Center) recently announced two winners of its 2019 American Indian Business Scholarships. Receiving the scholarships were Jamy Malone and Gabe Garcia. The scholarship recipients were honored at the Native American 40 under 40 Awards Gala, which took place on Saturday, August 24th at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix.

Scholarship winners must be full-time collegiate juniors, seniors, or graduate students majoring in a business-related field. The applicants were evaluated based on grades, community involvement, personal challenges, business experience, and the quality of their personal essay. Jamy Malone is the recipient of the Ongweoweh Scholarship, which is funded by the Ongweoweh Corporation whose President, Justin Bennett, is a former winner himself. Gabe Garcia is the winner of the National Center’s Scholarship.

“Jamy and Gabe are incredibly impressive students and emerging Native American leaders,” said Chris James, President and CEO of the National Center. “We are proud to support them as they strive to reach their educational goals and look forward to their contributions to advancing economic development within Indian Country. It’s appropriate that these students are honored alongside 40 under 40 winners, many of whom were students themselves just a few short years ago. I look forward to following Jamy and Steven’s career development in the years ahead.”

More information about the two winners is below.

Jamy Malone. Jamy is Navajo and majoring in Organizational Leadership and Entrepreneurship at The University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management.

Gabe Garcia is Tohono O’odham and pursuing a Masters in Global Technology and Development at Arizona State University.

For more information on the National Center’s Scholarship program or to learn how to apply next year, please visit http://scholarships.ncaied.org/.

About the National Center: The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. With over 50 years of assisting American Indian Tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development – The National Center has evolved into the largest national Indian specific business organization in the nation serving over 500 clients and providing over $4 million in contracts to its clients. The National Center has nine offices throughout the nation with its home office located in Mesa, Arizona. The National Center is actively engaged in helping Tribal Nations and Native business people realize their business goals and are dedicated to putting the whole of Indian Country to work to better the lives of American Indian people – both now…and for generations to come.

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