2025 Liz Koch Memorial Scholarship recipients announced
Ten recipients have been selected for the DALE Foundation’s 2025 Liz Koch Memorial Scholarship. These recipients were chosen from hundreds of applicants across the country.
For more than a decade, the Liz Koch Memorial Scholarship has helped aspiring and current dental professionals advance their education and achieve their career goals. Each recipient received between $250 and $1,000 for professional development activities, such as continuing education courses, DANB exams and certifications, college courses, and dental conferences.
Congratulations to the 2025 Liz Koch Scholarship Recipients
Pictured from top left to right in the photo.
Emily Brown of Jefferson, South Carolina
Natasha Carl-Hawkins of Twin Falls, Idaho
Omar Flores of Chicago, Illinois
Jinae Jang of Rochester Hills, Michigan
Jorge Luna of Phoenix, Arizona
Crystal Mercedes of Reading, Pennsylvania
Jamaya Morgan of Alexandria, Virginia
Ashley Perez of Las Vegas, Nevada
Ana Puga-Flores of Guerneville, California
Erick I. Román Rodríguez of Orocovis, Puerto Rico
About the Liz Koch Memorial Scholarship
The DALE Foundation launched the Liz Koch Memorial Scholarship in 2014 to honor Liz Koch, who served as Chief Operating Officer of DANB and the DALE Foundation before her untimely passing in 2011. This scholarship honors Liz Koch’s dedication to encouraging and elevating dental assistants at all stages of their careers.
The scholarship is open to all dental assistants, DANB certificants, and other oral healthcare professionals, to support the professional development of dental auxiliaries. Scholarship recipients are selected based on their professional development plans for oral healthcare career development, and mentoring others in ways that promote oral health or the oral healthcare professions.
Learn more about DANB and DALE Foundation scholarships.