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EQuAL Scholarship

Employee Queers and Allies League supplies annual scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students with a record of service to the LGBTQ community

The awards are based on academic efforts, campus and community activity, financial need, and other outstanding characteristics exhibited by students. Award monies are dispersed during the spring semester. Funding for these awards comes from the generous contributions of OSU faculty, staff, alumni and through our partnership with the OSU Division of Institutional Diversity.

 

Application Qualifications

Recipients of awards must meet the following criteria:

  1. An applicant must be a continuing student who is at least a sophomore (with a minimum of 48 Hours completed at OSU) at time of application. Graduate students may also apply.

  2. Undergraduate applicants must have at least a 2.5 cumulative grad/ret GPA and graduate student applicants must have at least a 3.0 cumulative grad/ret GPA at Oklahoma State University.

  3. Applicants must be enrolled full-time at OSU for Spring 2022 prior to the release of funds.

2021-2022 EQuAL Scholarship Awardees 

white blonde with short hair and nose piercing looking at camera, text reads Cole Milton
white blonde with short hair and nose piercing looking at camera, text reads Cole Milton
Cole Milton is a Doctoral Candidate in Counseling Psychology at OSU. He works in Payne County and beyond supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion, including with the Oklahoma Psychological Association, Payne County Youth Services, and the OKC Veterans Affairs hospital. He has both published and is currently in review for publishing multiple peer-reviewed articles concerning LGBTQ+ health and psychology. At OSU, he serves as part of the DRAG Lab.
Asian individual with short hair standing next to Human Rights = LGBT rights sign, text reads Nate Tanes
Asian individual with short hair standing next to Human Rights = LGBT rights sign, text reads Nate Tanes
Nate Tanes is a candidate for a Masters of Arts in Political Science at OSU. He was the Chairperson of the LGBT Forum of United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica and an active member of the United Nations campaign “Being LGBTs in Asia” since 2015. He also received an honor award from the U.S. Embassy Bangkok for his work on LGBTQ+ representation. At OSU, he has been a graduate teaching assistant for Political Science.

2020-2021 EQuAL Scholarship Awardees 

Filipinx poet with short hair and nose piercing
Filipinx poet with short hair and nose piercing
Dani Putney (they/them) is an English PhD student with an emphasis in poetry. Their dissertation, tentatively titled Mix-Mix, is a poetry collection focused on their mixed-race Filipinx heritage. The collection features, alongside other pieces, poems created from historical documents, such as their late father's Asian romance guidebook and Ancestry.com descriptions. Dani has been published in The Emerson Review, Foglifter, and Gulf Stream Magazine, among others. Their debut full-length poetry collection, Salamat sa Intersectionality, was released in May 2021.
Person with glasses staring off from camera
Person with glasses staring off from camera
AP Poythress (they/them) is an English PhD student studying the roots of queerness in horror texts, as well as looking at the new wave of queer literary horror. The scholarship allows them to focus on finishing their first novel and their position as Treasurer for the Creative Writer's Association. As co-leader of the LGBTQ+ Inquiry Group for the Writing Center, they're working hard to make campus more LGBTQ+ inclusive and safe.
woman smiling and looking at camera
woman smiling and looking at camera
Micah Damon (she/her or they/them) is pursuing a Bachelors in Arts Administration with a minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their current goal is to finish the last year of schooling doing all that they could dream of! They are interning at both the OSU Museum of Art and Modella Art Gallery doing marketing and community outreach work. This scholarship will aid them in creating more inclusive and equitable spaces in the arts.

 

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