by MBA candidate, Sean Luster
Eva Browning is a senior marketing major at Boise State University and the most recent recipient of the COBEAC scholarship. Growing up in Idaho Falls and being the youngest of six (she has three older sisters and two older brothers who are now scattered around the country and also living abroad), Eva has been striving to do great things since she was young. While attending Skyline High School in her hometown, she was selected to be a Capital Scholar at Boise State University, and she graduated near the top of her class. Coming to Boise to accept her Capital Scholar award made Eva fall in love with the city, the community, the university, and the business college, and she immediately knew where she wanted to pursue her degree after high school.
In the business college, Eva has grown to love various aspects of the marketing field and even had the opportunity to study abroad in Ireland. In particular, she has been intrigued by social media marketing and has developed those skills through internships at Together We Rise (a nonprofit for youth in the foster care system) and Life’s Kitchen (a nonprofit to teach youth life skills), social media work for her father’s law firm, and at St. Paul’s Catholic Student Center. Eva is also the president and events campus minister at St. Paul’s. Through these positions, she has helped coordinate many student events and also had a chance to do a lot of work with social media marketing.
The COBEAC scholarship has contributed to Eva being able to complete her undergraduate education.
“This scholarship has helped me finance this year of school,” she said. “Since I am paying for my education entirely by myself, every bit helps. I am very grateful for the COBEAC scholarship!”
Although she will be sad to leave Boise State University when she graduates in the spring, Eva will look back at her time doing her undergraduate studies as a fantastic experience with amazing professors and opportunities, including the COBEAC scholarship.