I'm Barbara Sando. I'm an alum of the
University of Washington College of Arts
and Sciences Department of Mathematics. I
hope that my gift to the College of Arts
and Sciences will enable other students
to have a similar opportunity to the
type of opportunity I had as a
first-generation American and the first
person to go to in my family to go to
college. That was a huge opportunity that
opened a lot of doors not only to my
career but to help me foster a broader
perspective on pretty much everything. I
supported the Department of Mathematics
for many years now. I think since the
early 80s. And for the first many years I
never specified how my gift was to be
used for the last several years I have
For six years I co-sponsored a term
professorship that supported the math
professor who started the math day for
high school students and so I've
supported many activities to encourage
young people, especially girls, but both
boys and girls, to continue to study math
and science in high school. And for the
last couple of years I've been
supporting a scholarship to support
first-generation and their families to
go to college.
