Hank Aaron’s Lasting Impact on One UWM Student

Hank Aaron left an incredible legacy on and off the baseball field. Nobody knows this better than UWM senior Hawa Brema.

For the past four years, Brema’s UWM education was funded through gifts to an endowment created by Aaron’s Chasing the Dream Foundation 4 for 4 Scholarship. The scholarship at UWM is in memory of Aaron’s longtime friend and UWM alumnus, the late Joseph Kennedy.

Aaron died on January 22, 2021, at age 86. Like so many people, hit hit Brema hard, and even a few weeks afterward, she wiped away tears while talking about him and what the scholarship has meant.

“He changed my life. He literally changed a lot of people’s lives,” says Brema, a senior majoring in human resources management who was scheduled to grade in May. Brema’s UWM education also included certificates in real estate and cultures and communities.

Hank Aaron’s Lasting Impact