MLK Scholarships & Awards

MLK Peace and Service Award

MLK Peace Award

Submit Nomination for the Peace Award here

MLK Peace Award is open to all FIU enrolled students and meant to honor FIU Panthers that promote and represent the ideals of Dr. King

Students must meet the following requirements:

• Have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above
• Be involved in extracurricular activities both on and off campus that promote and represent the ideals of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The award is $250, an MLK Medallion, and Recognition at the MLK Commemorative Celebration. Nominations. Self-nominations are acceptable.

 Winners will be featured in a video and need to sign a Talent Release Waiver.

MLK Service Award

MLK Service Award is open to all FIU faculty and staff and meant to honor individuals that show considerable community service and provide exemplary service. The award is $250 and an MLK Medallion. Self-nominations are acceptable.

To apply for the Service Award click here

FIU Faculty, A&P, and USPS employees must meet the following requirements:

• Exemplify the goals and ideals of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Show considerable involvement in community service

The award is $250, an MLK Medallion, and Recognition at the MLK Commemorative Celebration. Nominations have been will be due on a date to be announced later.

Winners will be featured in a video and need to sign a Talent Release Waiver.

Past winners

• 2023

  2023 MLK Peace Award Winner - Ashley Perez

  2023 MLK Service Award Winner - Judge Phyllis Diane Kotey

• 2022

  2022 MLK Peace Award Winner - Vanessa Rolle

  2022 MLK Service Award Winner - Dr. Carleen Vincent-Robinson

• 2020

  2020 MLK Peace Award Winner - Ti Ti Nguyen

  2020 MLK Service Award Winner - Pamela Lopez Del Carmen
• 2019

  2019 MLK Peace Award Winner - Isra Abrahim Amin

  I am self-nominating myself to share with the committee what I aspire and hope to achieve at FIU, South Florida, and beyond. My name is Isra Amin Ibrahim. I am Muslim Black student, activist, and community organizer. The ideals of social justice promoted by Rev. Martin Luther King speak to the daily struggles and achievements of oppressed people wherever they are and however they come. As an FIU student, I co-founded the first Muslim chaplaincy office, Muslims at FIU, in the state of Florida of a public university. My vision was to provide Muslim student’s access to a Muslim chaplain as part of the Multifaith board. The purpose was to work cohesively with FIU Muslim students, the Muslim World Studies program, and collaborate with the Muslim organizations working to push for civil rights. I was also FIU's 2016 TEDx student speaker where I spoke about the intersections of my identity as a daughter of immigrants, a Black woman, and a Muslim, and illuminating the ways where people connect to advance interfaith and multicultural understandings of one another. I am also a 2018-2019 Young People for (YP4) fellow, a national class of young leaders and activists, working to create Blueprints for Social Justice for civil rights, gender liberation, and spiritual resistance. As an FIU student leader today, it is my wish to create an FIU student social justice coalition on campus to work with the administration and Student Government to communicate the broader needs of our most marginalized student groups for greater resources.