Doors open at 6 pm. Light food and non-alcoholic drinks will be served.

The program will start just after 6:30 pm and wrap up by 8 pm.

Five aspiring college journalists will receive scholarships from the Northwest Journalists of Color, a consortium of four minority journalist groups in Washington. The 2013 recipients include Western Washington University students: Joella Charis Ortega, Charmaine Riley, Elyse Tan, and Seattle University student, Holly Martinez. Joseph Park from Highline Community College will be awarded the Founder’s Scholarship, which covers a student registration for the 2013 AAJA National Convention in New York City.

Mónica Guzmán, a digital life columnist for The Seattle Times and Northwest tech news site GeekWire, will be the keynote speaker for the evening.

Come enjoy food and drink, meet this year's Northwest Journalists of Color scholarship winners and support students trying to make their dreams come true!

This year's sponsor is Comcast, who will be presenting the Comcast Multimedia Scholarship to one of the NJC winners.

About Mónica Guzmán

In addition to her work for the Seattle Times and GeekWire, Guzmán emcees Ignite Seattle, a community-fueled speaker series and dissects media tech trends on the PBS MediaShift’s Mediatwits podcast. Other highlights from her career include running the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Big Blog from 2007 to 2010 and serving on the boards of the Western Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the University of Washington iSchool's Masters in Science and Information Management program.

About Northwest Journalists of Color

Northwest Journalists of Color (NJC) is a nonprofit umbrella group comprised of working journalists in print, broadcast, radio and online and includes the Seattle chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Seattle Association of Black Journalists.

The NJC Scholarship is a 27-year-old program that helps talented Washington students who want to pursue a career in journalism attend college. Our mission is to ensure that the journalists reporting the news -- on television, in newspapers, on the radio and online -- reflect the diversity of the community they serve.

Past winners include PBS NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, Seattle Times technology reporter Janet Tu, KDVR-TV (Denver) reporter Chris Jose, Phillip Lucas of the Associated Press and more. We have helped more than 100 students of all backgrounds attend college and awarded more than $100,000 in scholarship money.

The NJC scholarships are funded through annual fundraisers and the organization's endowment. The scholarship is run by the Seattle chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.