Kiran Alvi

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“I have always believed that an ignorant society is a dysfunctional one.”

  • Program: 2008 Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Recipient
  • Resides: Chino Hills, CA
  • Hometown: Pomona, CA
  • Age: 20

Biography

PROFILE: Kiran Alvi has a passion for broadcast journalism and a powerful will to succeed. At the same time, she has been tireless in encouraging others with the message that they, too, can succeed. As Honors Ambassador at Mt. San Antonio College, she visits classrooms all over campus and at local high schools to inspire students to join the honors program.
Surprisingly, this 4.0 high achiever once hated school. She felt useless because she was not helping others with her time and potential. “So I did something about it.” That is when Kiran became actively involved in the honors program, joining the leadership team in recruitment by encouraging others with a simple message: ‘yes, you can.’
Her passion for broadcast journalism comes from a desire to teach: “My way of giving back to the world that has given me so much is to be an educator through journalism.”
INSPIRATION: Kiran understands the sacrifices that her immigrant parents had to make for her and her sister. “Knowing that makes me want to give back to them the best way I know how. I want to make them proud, and reassure them that all their sacrifices were never made in vain.”
ASPIRATION: Kiran aspires to be the next Oprah: “The first female, Pakistani-American, Muslim reporter representing the face of American news.”
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: As president of her Phi Theta Kappa chapter, Kiran and her team created “Hearts on Fire,” an initiative to raise funds for the Red Cross to help California fire victims. She also decided to join the Muslim Student Association in order to educate and help teach a side to her faith that “is so misrepresented in our media.”
ACCOLADES: In addition to receiving the Academic Student of Distinction Award, Kiran was the 2008 Mt. San Antonio College Inspiring Woman, as well as Forensics National Champion in communication analysis. At the campus newspaper she served first as arts and entertainment editor and later as managing editor.
INTERESTING FACT: Kiran speaks Urdu and French and is learning Arabic.

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