Alejandra Sanchez

Alejandra Sanchez of Paterson, N.J. is an International Studies major with a double minor in Latin American Studies and Human Rights & Genocides Studies. She has a 3.7 GPA and has been inducted into Sigma Iota Rho Honors Society for International Studies, and into Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honors Society.

At Ramapo, Alejandra has been active in the Association of Latino Moving Ahead, where she has served as Treasurer and President and also with the organization of Global Roadrunners, where she has served as an E-Board member. Through these positions she has coordinated fundraisers on campus, particularly the Refugee Clothing Drive.

Off-campus, Alejandra studied abroad for a full semester in Santiago, Chile. She also interned abroad at the Alianza Francesa as a Cultural Orientation Intern in Puebla, Mexico. Additionally, Alejandra will be interning in the Center for Safety and Change as a Bilingual Legal Translator.

“Upon graduation, I plan to obtain a paralegal certification and eventually pursue law school in order to become an immigration attorney.”

Awarded Scholarships

2019

Aronsohn, Ernst Memorial Scholarship

Ernst Aronsohn was born in 1917 in the town of Posen, in what is now Poland.  At the onset of World War ll he was in school in Italy, and because of his Jewish faith could not return home to his family, who later perished under the Nazis.  Instead, Mr. Aronsohn went to Denmark to work on a farm with other young Jews displaced by the War.  It was here he met his wife, Erna Meier.  When the Nazis invaded Denmark, the Aronsohns were ferried to Sweden by Danish fishermen.  At the end of the war, they went to Israel.  It was in Israel that Mr. Aronsohn was recruited by the United States to return to Germany to help find Nazi war criminals.

In 1958 the Aronsohns moved to the United States with other Holocaust survivors and settled in Queens, N.Y.  Mr. Aronsohn had a successful career in finance.  After his wife’s death in 1989 Mr. Aronsohn was visiting a friend in Florida.  The friend introduced him to Jane Yanowitz, and they remained constant companions for 25 years.  At Mr. Aronsohn’s death in 2015, the Yanowitz family created this scholarship to honor his memory.