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Gzeonie Hampton, a McConnell Scholar and a Porter Scholar, is one of UofL s 2021 grads.
Gzeonie Hampton felt like she was coming home when she enrolled at UofL as a McConnell Scholar and a Porter Scholar.
The North Hardin High School graduate’s exposure to UofL classrooms started about a decade prior when her aunt, Tanisha Thompson ’06, ’14, hauled her along to her courses in Strickler Hall and elsewhere.
Now Hampton’s aunt and the rest of her extended family will be celebrating with her May 7, when she graduates with an undergraduate degree in political science and English and with a long-term dream of working in Middle Eastern foreign relations for the U.S. State Department.
Giavanna Combs and Leah Hazelwood.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Derby Festival Royal Court is the same for 2021 as it was in 2020, meaning UofL students Giavanna Combs and Leah Hazelwood will once again represent the city of Louisville as official ambassadors for the festival.
Combs, a senior majoring in psychology with a minor in Pan-African Studies, is a Porter Scholar and a Denny Crum Scholar who is also active in several campus and community organizations. She is the vice president of the Caring Of New students Experiencing College Transition (Conect) Peer Mentoring Program, participated in the medical companion program with the Louisville VA Medical Center and worked with the Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program.