Jon Pope Leadership in Architecture Scholarship Winner, 2025-2026
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Congratulations to Riley Corrigan, the 2025-2026 recipient of the Jon Pope Leadership in Architecture Scholarship.
Riley Corrigan is a second-year graduate student at the University of Minnesota pursuing her Masters of Architecture. She is from the Twin Cities and received her undergraduate degree in architecture from the U of M.
In October, she visited Pope Design Group’s office to have lunch with President Ward Isaacson.
The Jon Pope Leadership in Architecture Scholarship was established in 2016 following Jon Pope’s retirement from the firm, to honor Jon’s legacy for the business of architecture by supporting University of Minnesota architecture students with a similar ambition for design.
Jon devoted the better part of his career to the mentorship of the next generation of architects and designers, instilling in them the same entrepreneurial spirit that drove him to establish the firm so many years ago.
Here is a list of the scholarship recipients:
- 2017-2018 Mauricio Ochoa
- 2018-2019 Tyler Snell
- 2019-2020 Zahra Esmaeilzadehrazlighi
- 2020-2021 Angelo Davalos
- 2021-2022 Karianna Larson
- 2022-2023 Logan Stein
- 2023-2024 Fran Di Caprio
- 2024-2025 Nancy Wang
- 2025-2026 Riley Corrigan
