ROCKLAND — OUT Maine has awarded scholarships to four Maine students for the 2024-2025 school year, totaling over $42,000 in coverage of college tuition and housing costs.
Two of the four students are second-year college students. OUT Maine awards these scholarships on a yearly basis, renewing them to meet their recipients’ unique financial needs for every year that they attend a higher education institution. The other two awardees are first-year students.
Ty Delong and Sasha Saedan are sophomores at Bennington College in Vermont, and second-year recipients of OUT Maine’s scholarship.
Rose Chaloult, hailing from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, is now a freshman at St. Michael’s College in Vermont benefitting from a scholarship from OUT Maine.
Hunter Hillard is a graduate of Traip Academy in Kittery, and now attends Southern Maine Community College as a first-year student receiving an OUT Maine scholarship.
LGBTQIA2S+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning, intersex, and two-spirit. Allies are folks who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ but have camaraderie with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Cis or cisgender means a person’s gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth match. If gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth do not match, a person may identify as transgender. For more definitions of LGBTQ+ terminology, visit www.outmaine.org/resources/terminology.
OUT Maine has an ambitious goal: to create more welcoming and affirming communities for Maine’s diverse queer youth in all their intersectional identities by changing the very systems that serve them. For more information, please visit www.outmaine.org.
