Our Endowment Partner

USES AND PURPOSES:

This endowment shall be called the Lu Brown Legacy Scholarship and shall be administered as an

endowment subject to the following stipulations:

• 1) Current EWU graduate student in the social work program in field placement
• 2) Minimum GPA 3.0
• 3) Demonstrated financial need
• 4) Preference given to students with proven passion for social justice.

Eligible candidates will be identified through the general University Scholarship application and

forwarded to the School of Social Work selection committee. The selection committee will be

comprised of the current Chair/Director and one faculty member of the EWU School of Social

Work, a community social worker and a member of Lu Brown’s family.

The assigned administrator for this endowment is:

Executive Director

Eastern Washington University Foundation

127 Hargreaves Hall

Cheney, WA 99004

The 2020 Scholarship selection committee members:

Deborah Vangeison Svoboda, M.S.W., Ph.D.   (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Social Work

Affiliated Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies
Eastern Washington University
102 Senior Hall, Cheney, WA 99004

(509) 359-6470 (office) * dsvoboda@ewu.edu 

Jamie Wiggins, MSW

• Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Eastern Washington University
• Director of the CARES Team at City of Spokane Fire Department

Kay C Zahn- Lu's Sister