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Philip Mackie
Philip Mackie Philip Mackie earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at the University of Florida Biography Philip Mackie, a native of the Tampa-Clearwater area of Florida, was raised by parents who worked as physical therapists. His early exposure to healthcare sparked an interest in the young Mackie. Initially torn between medicine and engineering, Philip…
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Yingzhi Ye Yingzhi Ye earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Johns Hopkins University Biography Yingzhi Ye was born in Hangzhou, China, located in the Zhejiang province. Hangzhou is noted globally for its contributions to science. Ye is proud to be from Hangzhou and on her own journey to make a mark on the…
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Marcelle Dina Zita Marcelle Dina Zita earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Johns Hopkins University Biography Marcelle Dina Zita was born and raised in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Her mother is a retired teacher and her father, who passed away when she was only two, was a member of the Cameroon Armed Forces. Dr. Dina…
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Jackson Mace Jackson Mace earned the 2023 Toffler Scholar Award at Johns Hopkins University Biography Jackson Mace was born in Santa Cruz, California, to a family of scientists and engineers—problem solvers, in other words. His older brother went to the University of Pennsylvania and still lives in the state today, working in the biomedical engineering…
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Valerie Arboleda Valerie Arboleda earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at UCLA Biography Valerie Arboleda was born in Los Angeles, California, to immigrant parents from the Philippines. Her parents were trained as physicians and moved to California to pursue board certifications and a better life. Dr. Arboleda spent the first year of her life…
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Kimberly Kwei Kimberly Kwei earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Columbia University Biography The daughter of two Taiwanese immigrants, Kimberly Kwei was born in Stanford, California. Dr. Kwei’s parents initially came to the United States so that her father could study and work, but they decided to stay when they realized they were…
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Jie Chen Jie Chen earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Florida State University. Biography Jie Chen is from a small village in central China with only a few hundred people. He was a curious child, always asking questions about how things work and why things are the way they are. He spent a…
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Ashley Carey Ashley Carey earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Temple University Biography Ashley Carey was born in northern New Jersey and lived there until third grade, when she and her family relocated to Monroe, a large suburban town in the central part of the state. The oldest of three children, Carey has…
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Ted Zwang Ted Zwang earned the Toffler Scholar Award in 2023 at Harvard Biography Ted Zwang was born in Danbury, Connecticut, where he and his family lived for three years before they relocated to Houston, Texas. When Dr. Zwang was in middle school, the family moved once more — this time to a small rural…
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