Convention Scholarships
Student Scholarship | Diversity Scholarship | Early Career Scholarship | Scholarship Winners
If you are planning on applying or if you have already applied for a scholarship DO NOT register for the 2026 SPA Convention until notifications have been sent out in December. If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact our office at info@personality.org.
As a reminder, your may only be awarded ONE SPA scholarship at a time.
Student Scholarship
September 15, 2025 - November 23, 2025
In an effort to encourage training of students and promote student participation in research and scholarly presentation in the area of personality assessment, SPA has created scholarships opportunities to attend the 2026 SPA Convention and Workshops. This $360.00 USD scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration and one night hotel.
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration and one night in the hotel.
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 16, 2026 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
Diversity Scholarship
September 15, 2025 - November 23, 2025
As part of its overall commitment to diversity, SPA is now offering diversity scholarships of up to $1,150.00 USD to support diverse professionals or students involved in personality assessment who seek to attend the 2026 SPA Convention and Workshops. This scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night hotel, and up to $500 for reimbursable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel, food).
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night in the hotel, and up to $500 in reimbursable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel expenses, food expenses).
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 16, 2026 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
Early-Career Scholarship
September 15, 2025 - November 23, 2025
In an effort to encourage early career participation in the practice, research, and scholarly engagement in the area of personality assessment, SPA has created scholarships opportunities to attend the 2026 SPA Convention and Workshops. This $640.00 USD scholarship award includes a complimentary member early-bird rate registration, up to $150 in reimbursable expenses, and one night hotel.
- Provide complimentary member early-bird rate registration, one night in the hotel, and up to $150 in reimburseable expenses (travel, additional registration fees, additional hotel expenses, food expenses).
- If you are awarded a scholarship, you MUST register by January 16, 2026 at 11:59pm ET otherwise you will responsible for the outstanding balance.
View All Previous Scholarship Winners Below. Please note, only those who gave permission to be listed on our website are found below.
Year | Winners |
2025 | Nikola Doubkova, Sam Henry, Tessa Orellana, and John Thomas Rucker |
2024 | Connor Adams, JJ Boland, Dallas Boyce, Hannah Holmes, Rita Pasion, and Caitlyn Ramberg. |
2023 | JJ Boland, Hilary Lea DeShong, Emily Ann Dowgwillo, Adam Paul Natoli, Tiffany D. Russell, Sylvia Ryszewska, Corby Thompson, and Courtney Wiesepape |
2022 | Francesca Ales, Miles Philip Broadbery, Emily Ann Dowgwillo, Adam Paul Natoli, and Jared Ruchensky. |
Year |
Winners |
2025 |
Hannah Asis, Sarah Birkenholz, Katelyn Bradley, Martina, Camelio, Giulia Cosi, Megan Gallagher, Haley Hintz, Taylor Johnson, Hadley McCartin, Aurora Milesi, Mac Murphy, Savannah Muse, Ludovica Oppici, Brittany Rhodes, Cameron Robins, Nicole Shumaker, Courtney Sinclair, Sydeney Stone, and Camryn Sutton, |
2024 |
Molly Armstrong, Hannah Asis, Martina Camelio, John Cromb, William Foster, Lauren Kennedy, Anne Nickell, and Mattea Parker. |
2023 |
Jen YZ Ang, Sophie Bella, Hannah Benemann, Lorenzo Brienza, Rachel Davenport, Ezra Ellenberg, Ashmita Ghosh, Katie Glauner, Che Harris, Sarah Hernandez, Christine Hujing, Megan Alexis Keen, Michael LeDuc, Brooklyn Lesure, Hadley McCartin, Olivia Nelson, Chloe O'Dell, Elizabeth Papagni, Kirstie Pysher, Abbey Robbins, Chloe Rodriguez, Nicole Shumaker, Shayon Tayebi, Brooke Tompkins, and Lisa Rose Vassiliadis. |
2022 |
Michael Ahrenholtz, Jen YZ Ang, Emily Barni, Grace Boland, Youn Ji Grace Choi, Alison Concannon, Emily Crew, Dominique Ghirardi, Sarah Gottlieb, Natalie Guggino, Keefe Maccarone, Julianna Nails, John Thomas Rucker, Brooke Tompkins, Lisa Rose Vassiliadis, Enrico Vitolo, Rachel Wagner, Allison Warner, Megan Rose Whitman, and Leila Z. Wu. |
2021 |
Year | Winners |
2025 | Riley Abeles, Jen YZ Ang, Tyler Barnes, Alexa Callahan, Cassandra Clayton, Hannah Ethridge, Yasmine Griffin, Sara Hameed, Tyra Jones, Hai-Yan Koenig, Hannah Lee, Brittany Matthews, Mattea Parker, Danna Ramirez, Tiffany Russell, and Christina Wusinich, |
2024 | Essie Asan, Caroline Carmody, ABM Rezbaul Islam, Edleen De Jesus-Sanchez, Peggah Khalili-Tari, Kenneth Montemayor, Tia Nicolas, Danna Ramirez, Zeynap Sen, Krystal Smith, and Ziqi Wu. |
2023 | Anita Batuure, Cristina Culler, Brianna Davis, Sarah Gottlieb, Tina Greene, Shichie Kuribayashi, Casey Lee, Seiji Mabuchi, Ilenia Perez-Palen, Ashlinn Peters, Aakriti Prasai, Danna Ramirez, Bryce Robinson, Prathma Sharma, Stephanie Strong, Taylor Renee Rodriguez, Ethan Xiong, Shangyun Zhou |
2022 | Dalal Alhomaizi, Isra Dar, Raja M. David, Hilary Lea DeShong, Whitney Erby, Amanda Flake, Ashmista Ghosh, Sarah Hernandez, Saba Masood, Ruam Pimentel, Manizeh Raza, Chloe Rodriguez, Vanessa Shafa, Ryan Van Fossen, Shelby Cheyanne Vaughn, Alicia Wilhelmina Villanueva van den Hurk. |