Jordan Vasquez-Evans ’22 is headed for great things. She earned her bachelor’s degree in business management and entrepreneurship in June and, at the age of 20, is on a path to earn a Master of Business Administration degree from EWU.
She was watching an Eagle basketball game when she received notice from the Financial Aid Office that she’d been chosen to receive a Golden Eagle Scholarship.
“I was very surprised and grateful because I’ve been paying for college all by myself. When I got the news, I felt even more motivated and excited to do my program and continue schooling,” she says.
Vasquez-Evans, a first-generation student who is on her own to pay for all of her educational and living expenses, works about 30 hours a week between her jobs at the Eagle Store and nannying for a family in Spokane. In addition, she has a business creating balloon garlands and arches in her hometown of Kennewick, Washington, and here on campus for fraternities and sororities.
Vasquez-Evans, who hopes to someday open a property management company in the Tri-Cities, has a message for the retirees: “Thank you guys so much for recognizing me, and providing that breakfast where I got to go meet everyone, and for making me feel special – and for just taking so much stress off of my schooling here,” she says, “It’s just all appreciated, so thank you so, so much.”
