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Meet the Scholarship Team

Meet our amazing, hardworking and dedicated staff!

Everyone in the Scholarships department has access to and reviews the scholarship@elks.org inbox regularly. If you have any questions, please email us at scholarship@elks.org and we would be happy to help!

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Phone: 773/755-4868

Libby Willkomm,
Program Relations Associate, Scholarships

Libby joined the ENF in 2023 as Program Relations Associate after her graduation from Cornell University. She is a 2019 MVS scholar, and as a student, she participated in many service trips and virtual events. Now, she facilitates the scholar relations at the ENF. Libby loves getting to meet scholars from all around the nation, especially as she plans and executes the service trips. She also runs the meet-up and Cornerstone Grant programs, advises the Scholar Advisory Board, and runs the @ElksScholars Instagram. Outside of work, she loves exploring Chicago, traveling, and reading a good thriller.

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Phone: 773/755-7956

Cassidy Chapman
Programs Coordinator, Scholarships

Cassidy Chapman, a University of Michigan alum, has worked for the ENF since 2023 as the Scholarships Programs Coordinator, assisting scholars in navigating fund usage and processing payments to schools. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her cats, playing the piano, and oil painting.

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Hope Wright, Customer Service Assistant, Scholarships

Hope, a William and Mary graduate, is a recipient of the MVS scholarship. She started working with the team in 2021, when she also went back to school for American Sign Language interpretation. She keeps herself busy acting, traveling, reading, marathon running, and spoiling her nephew. She lives in Philadelphia with her piano.

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Phone: 773/755-4870

Claire Schnucker, Senior Associate, Scholarships

Claire Schnucker, a Northern Arizona University alum, has worked for the ENF since 2019 in roles across the organization from managing corporate and workplace donations to building out metrics and goals for each department. In her current role she manages cross-departmental and external relationships for the systems that keep our scholarships running such as the elks.org hosted MVS Portal for application judging, elks.org hosted ScholarWeb for scholar relations, our Access databases, and our MVS application that is externally hosted by ISTS. She makes sure our programs stay running as planned, at their best, and helps build out ways to make them better. She also supports a team of exceptionally busy and talented scholarship staff. In her spare time, she enjoys the chaotic wonder of cats, walking along Lake Michigan and playing video games.