First Place

• Ann Pedtke, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH Read Essay

Second Place

• Darren Beattie, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Laura Mazer, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• Doug Wong, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Third Place

• Jay Bahadur, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Jave Galt-Miller, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
• Antonia Hoyland, Peace College, Raleigh, NC
• Ben O’Neill, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia
• Nicole Pepperl, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Finalist

• Sean Bryen, The University of Sydney, Australia
• Meredith A. E. Collier, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
• Kristen Davis, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC
• Molly Fels, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
• Talyah Gaya, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Elisabeth Gilbert, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Cole Harvey, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Elizabeth Jacobs, New York University, New York City, NY
• Lisa Lipshires, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
• Ji Ma, Texas A&M University–College Station, College Station, TX
• Mark McLaughlin, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• Dwanna L. Munger, Clark State Community College, Springfield, OH
• Joanna Pearson, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
• John Robinson, Yale University, CT
• Cody Rutledge, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• Lucas Salazar, Pace University, New York, NY
• Melissa Schoenberger, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• Seth Shearer, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
• Kyle Steele, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• Peter Zuckerman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Semi-Finalist

• Christian Atkins, Oakland Community College, Royal Oak, MI
• Andrew Bay, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
• Anna Beryozkina, MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
• Rebecca M Blocksome, University of Primorska, Glagljaska, Koper, Slovenia
• Ben Everhart, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
• April Fisher, New York University–Draper Program, New York, NY
• Deahna Fumarol, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Derek Jacobs, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
• Nokwazi Jahde, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
• David James, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• James Kelly, Colby College, Waterville, ME
• Katie Lovell, Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, WA
• Elissa McColl, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
• Cassondra McHugh, Oxford University, Oxford, England
• Brandon Palinski, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Ramona Schroeder, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
• Kara Soderstrom, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• Julia Troutt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Spencer Trueax, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• Rima Turner, Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, NY