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Mia Hamilton

6x

Finalist

2x

Winner

General information

Gender
Female
Ethnicity
Black/African

Hobbies & Interests

  • Graphic Design
  • Marketing
  • Clarinet
  • Nursing
  • Music
  • Jewelry Making
  • Journaling
  • digital art
  • Volunteering
  • Church
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Beading
  • Swahili
  • YouTube
  • Poetry
  • Health Sciences
  • Saxophone
  • African American Studies
  • Art
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bible Study
  • Community Service And Volunteering
  • Advocacy And Activism
  • Anatomy
  • Ballet
  • Real Estate
  • Studying
  • Cheerleading

Reading

  • Academic
  • Business
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Young Adult
  • Education
  • Christianity
  • How-To
  • Christian Fiction
  • Economics
  • Health

I read books multiple times a week.

Bio

I am a first-year nursing student currently working as a CNA in the ICU, where I see every day how compassion, advocacy, and attentiveness can change outcomes for patients and families. Working at the bedside in such a high-acuity environment has strengthened my resilience, discipline, and commitment to becoming a nurse who provides skilled, compassionate care. Becoming a mother to my baby girl, Olivia, transformed my sense of purpose. During labor and delivery, the care I received from Black nurses was life-changing. They made me feel seen, protected, and respected during one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. Their presence showed me how powerful representation in healthcare truly is and helped me discover my calling. While I was once unsure what specialty I wanted to pursue, I now know I want to work in labor and delivery so I can advocate for mothers and provide the same comfort and reassurance I received. I am a strong fit for this scholarship because I am dedicated to my education, grounded in real-world clinical experience, and motivated to give back. While I am grateful to have one non-renewable scholarship covering my tuition this semester, I must continue applying for funding to remain in the program. Scholarship support would be used toward tuition, books, clinical supplies, and childcare, allowing me to focus fully on my studies while continuing to work toward becoming a registered nurse. These funds would directly support my ability to persist, succeed, and ultimately serve my community through compassionate maternal care.

Education

Penn Foster College

Associate's degree program

2025 – 2027

Majors:
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions
  • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General
  • Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other
  • Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services
GPA4.0 GPA

Skagit Valley College

Bachelor's degree program

2023 – 2029

Majors:
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services
  • Health/Medical Preparatory Programs
  • Health Professions Education, Ethics, and Humanities
  • Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other
  • Medicine
  • Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
Minors:
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General
GPA3.0 GPA

Oak Harbor High School

High School

2020 – 2027

GPA3.8 GPA

Miscellaneous

Desired degree level:
Bachelor's degree program
Majors of interest:
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing, Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other, Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services, Medicine, Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
Desired degree modality:
Full-Time, Hybrid, In-Person
Medical school interest:
Yes
English as first language:
Yes
Homeschooled:
No
Test scores:
  • SAT1600
  • PSAT1400

Career

  • Social media manger

    Marketing and Advertising · soroptimist

    Jan 2026 – Present

  • CNA

    Hospital & Health Care · Whidbey Health

    Jan 2026 – Present

  • PCT

    Hospital & Health Care · Island Hospital

    Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

  • CNA

    Hospital & Health Care · Home Health

    Jan 2023 – Present

  • CNA

    Hospital & Health Care · Plautium Care 365

    Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Hospital & Health Care, Mental Health Care, Nursing, Healthcare Administration
Dream career goals:
Travel the world and help safe lives
Work experience:
5 years
Has nursing license:
No
Leadership experience:
Yes

Future Interests

  • Advocacy
  • Volunteering
  • Philanthropy
  • Entrepreneurship
G.A. Johnston Memorial Scholarship
Painting is always a form of expression for me and a haven from the trauma of stressful moments in my life. Even though I am a nursing student, art, and more specifically watercolor and acrylic-style painting, has since been an important way to work to express myself creatively. Art helps me slow down and think it all in order to get down to feelings of grief and sadness that aren’t necessarily something I can convey in words. It makes me calmer and more reflective, and reminds me that even amidst hard seasons, there’s still beauty, that things change — even in the hard times, and that hope is alive. Nursing is the career in which I want to contribute positively to people’s lives with compassion, care, and advocacy. I have watched as a Certified Nursing Assistant and future nurse observe the need of emotional comfort and human relationships in moments of sensitivity. In many aspects, both art and nursing demand empathy, patience, and attention to detail. In each of these two, their main purposes were to understand the emotions and also comfort others through a person's care. However, this first painting was an art painting I uploaded by myself based on the sunflower and was inspired by resilience and the struggle to grow up. Sunflowers naturally bend toward sunlight, and, for me, they represent hope in rough times. From my personal life I used to have so many commitments and struggles which I wanted to write this piece. The petals falling symbolizes struggles and hardships people go through, so the flower itself keeps standing tall yet. A good painting I desired would tell people that they can still grow despite the overwhelming situation they find themselves in. The second painting, with abstract flowers and bright colors, speaks to freedom, creativity, and the pursuit of emotional expression.
Ruthie Brown Scholarship
I am working around the clock to terminate my future student debt. All tho it's been hard very anitexy but I have been pushing through and not telling be me just a softmore has a issure to not apply/think about colloge and scolorships.Hopefully, putting be in a better position after completing my bachelor's to bring generational wealth to my family so that not only have I been a fit, but my doing can one day have a domino effect on other generations. In addition, I am also currently helping my BIPOC students at my local high school do so. My action plan in doing so has been improving my knowledge of financial literacy, mainly because this isn't taught in most black communities in school. Through this research, I am currently studying the Disparities of African Americans regarding Financial Literacy and some of the roadblocks in place for BICPOC when it comes to Higher Education. With that; I found that financial literacy is essential,,,, yes! Learning and educating yourself and others within the BIPOC community increase percentages for success, but America is a paper-pen society. Without well-documented calculated steps, you wouldn't be able to achieve your goals. Ways I am helping slowly dismantle the racial wealth gap in my community. Talking to BIPOC students in my high school and shared tips about how I start my small business. How they too can create their own company. How to get scholarships, the different types of scholarships, and any advice or resources I do have, I help share so that they do have a fighting chance of higher education and are as close to debt free as possible. What drives me and fuels my passion for financial literacy and looking at and being able to my debt free after my education are two powerful accepts. It would be my mother's vision and determination and learning about the statistics behind how many black students actually are pretty discouraging and extremely low. From that meager amount, only about 45.9% pursue higher education, and one reason is that it's too expensive. That should be a reason not to be able to go to college. Through my research, I discovered patterns of one person in a family where it is an older brother or sister, maybe even mom drops out, and then that individual is more likely to or does follow the same pattern. My mother is a first-generation student and obtained a full-ride athlete scholarship to Idaho University in track and field. Seeing it was not only it was possible not achieve able to be debt free after high school. I hope to get a full ride or pay my tuition.
Mia Hamilton Student Profile | Bold.org