{"id":144,"date":"2024-11-13T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:19:51","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Generation Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First-Generation Scholars is a program for high school students who will be the first generation in their families to attend college or who come from under-served communities. We pair these local high school students with a mentor here at Sinai to provide individualized professional &amp; personal advice. Our Mount Sinai mentors will assist their mentees with: academic preparation, college application process, personal statement essay writing, search for scholarship opportunities, financial aid applications, letter of recommendations to support college applications or other extracurricular opportunities, and resume building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who We Are<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gia Tolins, gia.tolins@icahn.mssm.edu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claudia Valenzuela, claudia.valenzuela@icahn.mssm.edu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Suzannah De Almeida, suzannah.dealmeida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ayris Izmirli, ayris.izmirli@icahn.mssm.edu <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chenyu Liu, chenyu.liu@icahn.mssm.edu <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alison Salinas, alison.salinas@icahn.mssm.edu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faculty\/Staff Advisor:<\/strong> Ann-Gel Palermo, ann-gel.palermo@mssm.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact us: 1stgenerationcollege@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: All students are welcome to join any Mount Sinai student organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us First-Generation Scholars is a program for high school students who will be the first generation in their families to attend college or who come from under-served communities. We pair these local high school students with a mentor here at Sinai to provide individualized professional &amp; personal advice. Our Mount Sinai mentors will assist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcommons.mssm.edu\/firstgenerationscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}