Clemente Coalition President Veronica Rohtert wins $5000 Scholarship

Clemente Coalition president Veronica Rohtert won a $5000 South Carolina Federal Credit Union scholarship. She plans to pursue a degree in graphic design, which she wants to use to help support the causes she believes in. To win the scholarship, she completed an application and an essay, which you can read here.

Veronica Rohtert is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and moved to Charleston, SC in 2014. She graduated with honors Magna Cum Laude from Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN.

She has worked as a Facility Liaison for Ricoh Americas Corporation where she used her knowledge of copiers and office management to facilitate two buildings for United HealthCare. Veronica started two family businesses and was the Office Manager for both Tennessee Laser Express and Sumner Gun & Supply.  Since moving to South Carolina she decided to dream a new dream and return to college. This new dream is in commercial graphic design and she intends to use this degree to aid nonprofits in advertising, recruiting and attracting funders.  She started at Trident Technical College in 2017 and became the President of the Clemente Coalition and has been paying it forward.  She is actively involved in community service assisting the Charleston Clemente Course, bliss Spiritual Co-op, Florence Crittenton teen program, the Windwood Farm Home for Children and Neighborhood House.  

As the president of the Clemente Coalition she organized and implemented a blanket drive for the Neighborhood House, a book drive for the library at MacDougall Correctional Center, and she volunteers at the PTK Clemente grocery vault at Trident Tech on Palmer Campus.

She says, "I truly love creating beautiful eye-catching works of art that make you stop. When you stop, you will absorb it, read it and come join me.  That is my goal to help those in need with my work and to eradicate hunger and homelessness right here in South Carolina."