Security Industry Association Announces 2024 RISE Scholarship Awardees
Honorees will receive $3,000 RISE scholarships for continuing education, repayment of student loan debt and professional development.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named 24 recipients for this year’s SIA RISE Scholarship, a program offered through SIA’s RISE community, which “supports the education and career development goals of young industry talent and emerging leaders.”
Through this scholarship program – open to SIA student members and RISE members who are employees at SIA member companies – each awardee will receive a $3,000 scholarship to use toward continuing education and professional development courses, SIA program offerings and/or other academic or education programs, according to the SIA announcement.
Scholarship funds can be used to expand knowledge in the areas of business, human resources, information technology, marketing, sales, project management, security engineering and/or risk management, the announcement says.
“SIA congratulates this year’s class of RISE Scholarship awardees – an impressive, diverse array of security professionals and rising stars who are making their mark on our industry,” says SIA CEO Don Erickson in the association announcement.
“We are proud to present scholarships to more recipients this year than ever before and honored to support these inspiring young leaders as they pursue their educational and career development goals,” he says.
2024 SIA RISE Scholarship Winners
The winners for this year’s RISE Scholarship are:
- Zachary Allen, account executive, Convergint Technologies
- Brianna Bonfondeo, account manager, Traka, ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions
- Joi Brown, control center specialist, Rapid Response Monitoring Services
- Brenda Constantin, account executive, 3Sixty Integrated, a Division of the Cook & Boardman Group
- Jonathan Crabtree, channel sales specialist, Genetec
- Taylor Davenport, HR business partner, i-PRO Americas
- Mason Fanning, end user specialist, ASSA ABLOY
- Natalie Fetsko, customer success manager, dormakaba
- Aishwarya Gandhe, senior channel marketing coordinator, North America, Genetec
- Anish Chandra Jalla, software developer II, Genetec
- Kajaanei Kajenthiran, security guard, City of Toronto, Canada
- Will Knehr, senior manager of information assurance and data privacy, i-PRO Americas
- Ryan Knoll, account executive, Pro-Tec Design
- Chandni Lalwani, DevOps engineer, HID Global
- Vincent Malenfer-Henard, security analyst, Genetec
- Josh Martin, mechanical engineer II, dormakaba
- Bryn Menzel, director of strategic accounts and marketing, 3millID Corporation
- Gabriella Moraniec, contracts manager, GSA Schedules
- Taylor Nevells, digital marketing and content specialist, Wavelynx
- Juan Pelayo, technical support supervisor, i-PRO Americas
- Itzel Portillo, marketing specialist, Allegion
- Joel Searle, program manager, ZBeta
- Maria Sturges, project coordinator and administrator, Northland Controls
- Julie Trinh, SDK specialist, Genetec
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