Nate Berkus Scholarship Recipient
Karina Infante ’21 (MFA1) is First Recipient of Scholarship
Karina Infante
“This scholarship makes me feel like there is a lane for me in the big world of design.”
Infante is an MFA1 student in her final year, a first-generation American of Dominican descent, and a former case manager for children in the foster care system. Trustee Kelly Williams and The Williams Legacy Foundation established the scholarship in 2019 in honor of Nate Berkus, a proponent of socially conscious and charitable work in design. The scholarship is intended for interior design students pursuing a course of study with a demonstrated emphasis on improving the human condition, which Infante is.
Upon hearing she won the scholarship and became the first Nate Berkus scholar, Infante felt her winding path to interior design had been justified. She says, “It feels really good to have my passion for socially conscious design validated. I feel more confident that it might be possible to blend my desire to help people with my creative abilities. This scholarship makes me feel like there is a lane for me in the big world of design.”