It’s time to meet another one of our 2021 recipients for the Ascienzo Family Foundation’s annual scholarship: Angel Selenis! Angel graduated from Red Hook High School in June 2021. At the beginning of his senior year he started to look for scholarships opportunities.hen he heard about the AFF’s scholarship, which values past and continuing volunteerism and community engagement, he felt immediately connected with this scholarship opportunity.
Angel has made volunteering a part of his life for a long time, and most recently has been volunteering with Red Hook Responds and national honor society For Red Hook Responds, Angel worked on meal assembly: creating meals which were then delivered to people who were having trouble getting the meals they needed during quarantine.
At Red Hook High School, Angel was involved with several clubs. He also ran the Interact Club, under the Rotary International for two years. The club’s main goal was to raise funds for a disaster box for countries that were experiencing hardships. Interact is open to college students as well!
Angel is now at Suny ESF studying landscape architecture. hoping to learn more about the environment and how to make the community around him more sustainable. Angel is excited to get involved in any Red Hook Responds-like volunteering that may be happening in the SUNY ESF community!