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Savannah Petty is another 2019 scholarship recipient who applied through the Buford A. Johnson Chapter in Riverside, California. Savannah will be attending the U. S. Air Force Academy majoring in physics and training to be a pilot. She attended Ramona High School where she earned a 4.03 (weighted) grade point average (GPA). Weighted GPA is often used by high schools to better represent student's academic accomplishments. The weighted GPA takes into account course difficulty rather than providing the same letter grade to GPA conversion for every student.

Raised primarily by her mother in an environment of self-reliance, Savannah says "Within our household, the environment was to overachieve everyone and anyone, and not succumb to distractions." Savannah describes herself as assertive, proud and "woke," and her counselor sees her as intelligent, passionate, and overwhelmingly humble. “Savannah loves people and is a genuinely super person,” writes her school counselor.

Savannah was a four-year basketball starter, president of the Black Student Union and served as the Publicity Officer for Ramona's Model United Nations Club. Her athletic and academic honors include Lady Ram of the Year, Girls State Elected Controller, All-Team Tourney Ramona Winter Classic, and Arts Magnet Student of the Month. To be certain that she would have enough money to meet her personal expenses, Savannah recently took on a part-time job at Jamba Juice.

Savannah was selected as the student speaker to close out the Riverside County Office of Education's Excellence through Equity conference and spoke to over 900 educators. She received a standing ovation at the end of her speech. It was reportedly described by one educator as "bringing great insight to those from the classroom to the board room who could shape, develop, rethink, and further develop educational equity and access for all students, particularly, students of color.