Scholarship Recipients

Victory Johnson is a 2019 graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts (Birmingham). She received our December 2018 $1000.00 scholarship.  Ms. Victory Johnson is pursuing a degree in the Arts at the University of Hartford in Conneticut. and a $1500.00 scholarship to Ms. Chantilyn Carson who completed her degree at Faulkner University in Management of Human Resources. 

Desiree Owens received our 2019 scholarship. She is an adult nursing student at Jefferson State Community College (Birmingham Campus). Desiree made some bad decision when she was younger and dropped out of school causing her GPA to drop. Due to a low GPA, she was no longer eligible for financial aide. Desiree made a decision she was going to go back to school and get her Bachelors in Nursing no matter the cost. So she went back taking one course at a time, paying out-of-pocket. When she had been accepted into the nursing program, she applied for DBRN's scholarship and was awarded $1000.00. 

Chantilyn Carson is one of two 2018 scholarship recipients. She was awarded a $1500.00 scholarship. Chantilyn is a single parent of two teenagers. Although she had completed the required curriculum, she could not receive her degree due to financial hardship. DBRN stepped in and negotiated the payable balance with the school. She received a Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management from Faulkner University, Birmingham Campus. (click the arrow to hear her story.)

Toree Billingsley is our 2017 Scholarship recipient. Toree and her family were displaced by the tornado in January 2012 in the middle of her Sophomore year of high school. She graduated in 2014 and attended Southern Union University on a one year Cheerleading Scholarship. After that she transferred to Troy University where her mother was not financially able to manage.  Toree quit school to work and is pursuing a career in real estate.

Birmingham's own Harris Sextuplets were the recipients of our 2020 scholarships. Five of them received $500.00 awards to their designated colleges. Kobe and Kaylynne Harris are students at Alabama State University, Kaleb and Kieran are students at Alabama A&M University and Kiera is a student at Paul Mitchell The School Birmingham.  We wish them all great sucess as they embark upon college life and adulthood.

Kimberly Baker, a graduate student at Huntington College in Montgomery AL is our 2022 recipient. Kimberly received two $1000.00 scholarships one in the Summer Term and the other in the Winter Term. She will receive her master's degree in athletic training in the spring of 2023. Congratulations Kimberly!