Haya Chehada
Haya Chehada is one of 72 recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate
Transfer Scholarship, a highly competitive national scholarship that will provide
Haya with up to $40,000 a year to complete her bachelor’s degree. Originally from
Syria, Haya migrated to the United States in 2016 and started working at 7-Eleven
to help her family. Despite the difficulties she faced as a recent immigrant, she
did not give up her dream of pursuing a degree and enrolled at Cerritos College in
spring 2018. Haya transferred to USC this fall and is pursuing a bachelor’s degree
in business administration with an accounting concentration. Next summer, she will
begin an internship with Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four global accounting firms.
Her career goal is to earn a Certified Public Accountant license and work at a large
public accounting firm.
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