Eliana Marie Winterbauer-Light Endowed Social Justice Psychology Internship Stipend
Eliana Marie Winterbauer-Light Endowed Social Justice Psychology Internship Stipend
In memoriam for Eliana Winterbauer-Light, we are seeking gifts that will support students who could not otherwise participate in a college internship in several of the fields that Eliana cared about. Specifically, the scholarship would support students pursuing an internship with the Psychology and Social Justice Internship Program, which has four clusters:
- Prison reentry/decarceration
- Domestic violence
- LGBTQ support/advocacy
- Faith leaders and social justice
Eliana Winterbauer-Light was a 2017 graduate from Marquette University in the Honors Program, majoring in psychology and minoring in philosophy and French. Eliana was brilliant, creative, and compassionate, and had just begun her career as a mental health professional when her life was cut short by a wrong-way driver in a motor vehicle collision. In her short life, she made a positive impact both on those who knew her and on the community through the many causes she worked on and supported. She cared, with strength of conviction, for causes that promote social justice, support communities, and improve the lives of individuals - especially the disenfranchised.
She wanted her life to have a larger purpose, and her family hopes that by making this scholarship available that others will be enabled to continue her good work. Read her biography here.