Qingni Lin and John Kovach, President of NEHRA

Qingni Lin, an honors student at Boston Latin School, shares her diversity vision with others. In 2003, dismayed that elementary school art classes were being cancelled due to budget cuts in Boston, Qingni founded an art program for fourth and fifth grade students at Farragut Elementary School.

“One of the main ideas of this program,” Qingni states, “was to provide the elementary students from different backgrounds an equal chance to succeed through art.” She further notes, “I am glad to say that the makeup of the class this year is as diverse as the many facets of the art we teach.” The art projects that Qingni has created with her students include Native American dreamcatchers as well as Chinese watercolor painting and calligraphy.

In addition to her volunteer work at Farragut Elementary School, Qingni is the editor-in-chief of Boston Latin’s school magazine, The Register. She has volunteered at the DNA Diagnostic Lab at Children’s Hospital and the Office of the Inspector General of Massachusetts. This past summer, she was also a volunteer at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

A consistent honor roll student, Qingni is a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student and a National Honor Society inductee.

NEHRA is proud to name Qingni Lin the 2005 Norma Kornegay Clarke Scholarship recipient.