Name: Taqwa Surapati

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2014

School Name: Graduate Theological Union

Major: Islamic Studies

Description: Taqwa completed her chaplain residency at Stanford Health Care, before going to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut for a Graduate Certification in Islamic Chaplaincy in 2014. Prior to that, Taqwa served for a decade as a Spiritual Care volunteer at Stanford and other local hospitals in the San Jose area. She obtained her Master of Art in Islamic Studies from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Taqwa’s interests include oncology chaplaincy, how people of faith think of end-of-life situations and advance health care planning. Taqwa came to the US in 1998 from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sponsor: Muslim Community Association of the Bay Area (MCA) Scholarship