We are excited to have both old and new friends join us in this meaningful fundraising campaign to help recruit Pilipino students to UCLA. UCLA PAA has had a long history of not only supporting Pilipino students through financial support--but also through mentorship.
From ZAMA high school in Japan to UCLA to LMU to a career at UCLA to her personalized handmade holiday and birthday cards, she loved UCLA and helping others. While in the hospital fighting for her life, she would say to her husband Hooman, "I'm still saving the world" with tears in her eyes. She always put others first, and in that spirit, we ask you to put additional Bruins and students first by helping them offset the educational expenses of attending UCLA.
In 2005 UCLA PAA established a $50,000 scholarship endowment fund, which provides, in perpetuity, financial support to deserving UCLA students. In 2014-15, the UCLA PAA Scholarship Program was renamed the UCLA Pilipino Alumni/Lovell Sevilla Scholarship Program in honor of the late Lovell Sevilla, a former PAA Scholarship Director and one of the guiding lights in establishing the endowment. Lovell served as a counselor at the UCLA Honors program for over two decades, and become director of counseling in 2011. She also made a lasting impact as UCLA PAA Scholarship Director from 1995-2000. Lovell grew the program from one $500 scholarship a year to 10+ scholarships totaling over $10,000 annually.
Lovell Sevilla, who served as a UCLA student counselor for more than two decades, passed away on Aug. 10 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after battling acute myeloid leukemia for nine months. Lovell is remembered for her fierce “warrior” spirit and sincere interest in bettering other peoples’ lives.
Lovell went to UCLA and earned a bachelor’s degree in history, then a master’s degree in counseling from Loyola Marymount University.From there, she began working as an assistant and then as a counselor at UCLA Honors Programs. In 2010, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award for expanding diversity in the Honors Programs and became the director of counseling in 2011.
Aside from her formal position at UCLA, she served as a mentor, a confidant, an aunt, a sister, a friend--to so many Pilipino students during there time at UCLA.
To read more about Lovell, visit here.
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Founded in 1991, UCLA Pilipino Alumni’s mission is to create an environment for current students, alumni, and community members to network, both socially and professionally, as well as raise monies to support its initiatives, which include philanthropic causes such as scholarships for incoming high school, undergraduate, and graduate students at UCLA. UCLA Pilipino Alumni provides a vehicle through which alumni may provide career resources to students and alumni and establish valuable networks with other alumni professionals.
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