The Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award is given each year to a Cornell student for making a remarkable, creative, specific contribution to the spirit of humanity.

This annual $1,000 award honors the memory of dearly missed Cornell alum Maribel Garcia ’95, a vital friend and always a creative, inspiring and energetic member of her community. Maribel died tragically in a car accident in 1997, and the award committee hopes to honor her name and build a legacy of giving by rewarding one student each year for a “remarkable contribution to the spirit of humanity.” They believe creative, innovative contributions to the immediate community can spread outward and upward to make the world more unified, healthy and happy place. It is with this spirit that the Maribel Garcia Award is presented to one Cornell student each year, undergraduate or graduate.

Learn more and nominate yourself or another student on the award webpage.