{"id":27108,"date":"2026-08-03T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=27108"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:07:45","slug":"hope-dragseth-at-scripps-college-wins-2500-vegetarian-resource-group-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/03\/hope-dragseth-at-scripps-college-wins-2500-vegetarian-resource-group-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE DRAGSETH AT SCRIPPS COLLEGE WINS $2,500 VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP SCHOLARSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hope-Dragseth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Hope-Dragseth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7207951805msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Hope attends Scripps College, which is part of the Claremont Colleges, a five school consortium. She secured a complete plant-based menu at her college\u2019s annual sustainability summit and organized a\u00a0panel at Stanford\u2019s Food4Thought Conference addressing issues about seafood. Drawing on academic research and her experience as a vegetarian collegiate cross country athlete, she led a teach-in, including a cooking demo, for student athletes concerning a plant-based diet.\u00a0Hope is planning future workshops with registered dietitians to ensure that students have accurate information concerning vegan diets. A reference said, \u201cI am very lucky to work with someone as driven as she is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7207951805msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">For more information about The Vegetarian Resource Group scholarships, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0563c1;\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7207951805msonormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 106%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">To support The Vegetarian Resource Group outreach, join at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0563c1;\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7207951805msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Or donate at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vrg.org\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">vrg.org\/donate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7207951805msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">College scholarships for high school seniors are offered each year. Inquire in January at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:vrg@vrg.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #0563c1;\">vrg@vrg.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"> to ask about application details for students who applied during their high school senior year, but are currently in college. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope attends Scripps College, which is part of the Claremont Colleges, a five school consortium. She secured a complete plant-based menu at her college\u2019s annual sustainability summit and organized a\u00a0panel at Stanford\u2019s Food4Thought Conference addressing issues about seafood. Drawing on academic research and her experience as a vegetarian collegiate cross country athlete, she led a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27110,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27108\/revisions\/27110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}