Current Scholarship Recipients
SIM is proud to announce its new Becoming Beloved Community scholars for the 2021-2022 Academic Year who are each answering the call to leadership in a New Church for a New World. We look forward to their companionship over the next three years and to the contributions they will each make to the life of the church. Their unique commitments to compassion and justice are the lifeblood of this organization and also of the Body of Christ.
They are joined by 13 other current outstanding SIM scholars across eight seminaries.
Our newest recipents are:
Rosa L. Briones, Escuela de Diáconos Latinos EDOW, '22
Kaley Elaine Casenheiser, Yale/Berkeley Divinity School, '24
Brendan Francis Nee, Episcopal Divinity School at Union, '24
Mary Caitlin Frazier, Seminary of the Southwest, '24
Reginald L. Hayes, Virginia Theological Seminary, '23
David Eli Patino Mejia, Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation, '23
Yururia ("Yuri") Rodriguez-Laureani, School of Theology, University of the South, '23
Audra Elisa Ryes, School of Theology, University of the South, '24
Francisco deJesus Serrano, Escuela de Diáconos Latinos EDOW, '23
Herschel VonEdward Wade, Virginia Theological Seminary, '23
Demarius Jarron Walker, Boston University School of Theology, '23
Tommy Lee, Jr. Watson, Yale/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music, '24
Creamilda-Shirley W.N. Yoda, Virginia Theological Seminary, '22
Alyssa Stebbing
Seminary of the Southwest
Class of 2022
Amanda Taylor Montoya
Church Divinity
School of the Pacific
Class of 2022
Amy Peterson
Duke Divinity School
Class of 2022
Anthony Suggs
Seminary of the Southwest
Class of 2023
Audra Ryes
School of Theology,
University of the South
Class of 2024
Brendan Nee
Episcopal Divinity School at Union
Class of 2024
Creamilda-Shirley W.N. Yoda
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2022
David Patino Mejia
Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation
Class of 2023
Demarius Walker
Boston University School of Theology
Class of 2023
Francisco Serrano
Escuela de Diáconos Latinos,
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Class of 2023
Herschel VonEdward Wade
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2023
Julie Rodriguez
Seminary of the Southwest
Class of 2022
Kaley Casenheisher
Yale/Berkeley Divinity School
Class of 2024
Mary Caitlin Frazier
Seminary of the Southwest
Class of 2024
Megan Carlson
Seminary of the Southwest
Class of 2023
Mitchell Felton
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2023
Reggie Hayes
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2023
Rosa Briones III
Escuela de Diáconos Latinos,
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Class of 2022
Salmoon Bashir
Candler School of Theology
Class of 2022
Sarah Stonesifer
Peabody College
Vanderbilt University
Class of 2022
Suresh Shanthakumar
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2023
Tommy Watson Jr.
Yale/Berkeley Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music
Class of 2024
Yaa Addison
Virginia Theological Seminary
Class of 2023
Yuri Rodriguez
School of Theology,
University of the South
Class of 2023