Jimmy Le Memorial Scholarship

Jimmy Le was a peace activist at Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento who’s life motto revolved around the saying, “smiles make the world go round.” He was a violence peer mediator and served on multiple youth committees for the South Sacramento Coalition and Building Healthy Communities initiatives. Additionally, he volunteered for WEAVE, served as a youth facilitator for Challenge Day, and was a mentor for Family Youth Connection. He was also an exemplary community scholar and role model at HJHS, who was a beloved member of student government and the cross country/track team during his time there.

Jimmy’s family and friends remembered him for how he breathed life into people. They remembered him for the hope he embodied and the resiliency he had when it came to achieving his goals and helping out his friends. Regardless of the environment around him, he believed in the best of people and the idea that we can all make the world a better place, even with an action that was as simple as smiling. He had the greatest joy in bringing out the smile out of everyone he met and was quite the jester at times, but that’s how he expressed his uplifting and positive energy to everyone. His family and friends all saw the remarkable potential he had in his ambition to succeed and drive for his community in all of the extracurricular activities he was involved in. Ultimately, his life’s dream was to graduate from UC San Diego to make his family proud and come back to his community bringing forth positive change.

Unfortunately, his noble dream was cut short at only 16 years of age as he was an innocent victim caught in a random drive by incident in 2010. It’s been almost ten years since his tragic passing and although he was just a junior at the time, his legacy has continued to impact his community at HJHS and in South Sacramento to this day. The class of 2010 at HJHS and his closest family and friends want to commemorate his life and continue to further his legacy by creating a memorial scholarship in his name to support current HJHS students in their own pursuit of higher education today. Please consider donating to this fundraiser and help us achieve our goal in honoring our fallen brother.

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Who is this scholarship going to?

-We are planning on providing this scholarship to current graduating HJHS Seniors going to city college or university this fall.

How will you select the scholarship winner?

-There will be an essay contest 6/14 - 6/28. A select panel of judges will be judging essays from the following prompt:

“What is an issue that your community is currently facing? How is this issue personally relatable to you and what would you do to solve it if you had all of the reasonable tools and resources to do it?”