Nia Byrd

Bowdoin College

Brennan-McKown High Hopes Scholarship

Nia will be graduating from the IB program at BHS. She has a passion for music and plays guitar, ukulele, and played clarinet for the BHS Concert Band. As secretary of the Black Student Union, Nia helped organize several peaceful school protests and was active in the Black Lives Matter movement. Nia also participated in two summer abroad programs. Through the “Amigos de Las Americas program,” she relied on her fluency in Spanish to address Uruguayan employees of the US Embassy. Nia aspires to live abroad and work for the US Embassy.