Over 700 IUSD Seniors Awarded the Seal of Biliteracy

Seal of Biliteracy Recipients

Graduating California public high school students earn the biliteracy gold seal, which is affixed to their diplomas, for achieving proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, or signing in one or more languages in addition to English.

This year, 711 IUSD seniors have been awarded the State Seal of Biliteracy across 9 languages:

  • American Sign Language
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latin
  • Spanish

Nearly 25% percent of the 2024 graduating class has demonstrated their biliteracy or triliteracy. In fact, 20 IUSD seniors will receive two seals for demonstrating their triliteracy.

IUSD is proud to recognize and celebrate our students and our World Language teachers for their teaching and proficiency in multiple languages. Congratulations!

Below are the names of the 711 students, listed by school, who earned this honor:

  • Eshika Abbaraju
  • Zaynab Ahmed
  • Jaesang An
  • Jeremy Azoulay
  • Anna Beloshapkina
  • Aryan Birajdar
  • Joseph Brenner
  • Roma Burman
  • Natalia Casiano
  • Robert Casu
  • Owen Chang
  • Linda Chang
  • Paul Chau
  • Jiayu Chen
  • Heather Chen
  • Erle Chen
  • Situ Chintakunta
  • Ashley Cho
  • Benjamin Clark
  • Kathleen Curran
  • Nathan Dong
  • Sadie Dudley
  • Yuki Egawa
  • Shinwoo Eom
  • Parmis Ferasati
  • Dhalis Gambino
  • Alexis Garcia
  • Grace Guo
  • Gunnar Hanson
  • Tiancheng Hao
  • Christine Hattar
  • Sebastian Hernandez
  • Aijun Hou*
  • Xiuyue Hu
  • Christine Huang
  • Mungunzul Jambal
  • Kiana James
  • Jiwon Jeong
  • Zimo Jiang
  • Kalia Kau
  • Nayun Kim
  • Alexis Kim
  • Elizabeth Kim
  • Ivane Law
  • Ryan Lee
  • Shelby Lee
  • Haoxuan Li
  • Peiyang Li
  • Bryan Liao*
  • Phoebe Lin
  • Zihao Liu
  • Gloria Lopez
  • Jola Keani Machinek
  • Raaga Mahesh
  • Rojine Mahmoudi
  • Esteban Mathurent
  • Nicole Medina
  • Isaiah Mendez
  • Leovaughn Minasian
  • Yash Mittal
  • Safeeya Mohamed Ali
  • Kinley Moshenko
  • Zachary Nagy
  • Sari Nakajima
  • Amanda Negro Velasco
  • Xiao Ya Ni
  • Sofia Nieves
  • Runa Ogasawara
  • Chowon Oh
  • Mia Olea
  • Larry Ong
  • David Palacios
  • Nathan Pang
  • Axel Papin
  • Nicholas Paredes
  • Chelsea Park
  • Gargi Patel
  • Gianna Pena
  • Miu Sakamoto
  • Suhur Salah
  • Dina Samadi
  • Alex Sanchez
  • Krish Sangle
  • Rakshana Sasikumar
  • Shota Seshimo
  • Jordan Setiawan
  • Nakshatra Srinivasan
  • Nahyun Sung
  • Isabelle Suzukawa
  • Aika Takahashi*
  • Alexis Tran
  • Robert Tufford
  • Sai Varanasi
  • Santino Villarruel Acosta
  • Sofia Wadsworth
  • Charlene Wang
  • Michelle Wang
  • Isabella Wang
  • Keira Wheeler
  • Chelsea Won
  • Towako Wunsch
  • Sean Yeh
  • Arjun Zaveri
  • Selena Zheng
  • Alisha Zuberi

  • Ariadni Alexandrou Barcelo
  • Anika Aloni
  • Kibbeum Bae
  • Jason Beshara
  • Alyssa Bowman
  • Karen Bruce
  • Marisa Chacon
  • Nicolas Chan*
  • Jasmine Chee
  • Siyuan Chen
  • Hongqiao Chen
  • Yiheng Chen
  • Anthony Chin
  • Hannah Choi
  • Kevin Chu
  • William Deng
  • Rylie Do
  • Leyna Doan
  • Sophia Gabrielle Empalmado
  • Laura Estrada Sanchez
  • Evan Fu
  • Keshav Gaddam
  • Nisha Ganesan
  • Adarsh Ganeshram
  • Andrew Gao*
  • Shlok Garg
  • Julia Geng
  • Dante Ghazizadeh
  • David Gima
  • Ryan Goh
  • Zheng Gong
  • Zhuoyi Guo
  • Irem Gursoy
  • Palwasha Hasan
  • Jaycee Hendrickson
  • Unna Hotchkiss
  • Ellie Hsueh
  • Wei Hu*
  • Madeline Huang
  • Isabella Hulbert
  • Inaya Jaffer
  • Olivia James
  • Pedram Jokar
  • Sara Kabbara
  • Lakshmi Bharathi Kaliraj Shanmugapriya
  • Nachiket Kashalkar
  • Yutong Ke
  • Nicholas Keith
  • Tanmay Kommalapati
  • Isabella Krasnow
  • Adeti Krishnan
  • Pratik Kulkarni
  • Gavin Lai
  • Johann Lam
  • Derek Lee
  • Isaac Lee
  • Audrey Lee*
  • Elson Lee*
  • TzuHsien Lee
  • Kristen Lew
  • Zhiwei Li
  • Lexuan Li
  • Cheryl Lin
  • Ethan Lin
  • Max Lin
  • Anneliese Lu
  • Megan Luu
  • Alexandra Maloney
  • Aryan Mascarenhas
  • Neeva Mehta
  • Ishaan Mittal
  • Kai Mo
  • Lina Moammar
  • Matthew Morikawa
  • Alexa Mshiu
  • Cynthia Nakano
  • Mia Nelson
  • Andrew Ngo
  • Emi Nguyen
  • Pranavi Oduru
  • Justin Oh
  • Josue Olague
  • Vansh Parekh
  • Jay Parikh
  • Jeet Parikh
  • Irene Park
  • Aaliyah Perez
  • Daniella Pierce
  • Kyra Pithawala
  • Maryam Quraishi
  • Saadhvi Ramkumar
  • Kamelia Rezai
  • Stephanie Rouleau-Tang
  • Nikhil Sachdeva
  • Shikhar Sahaai
  • Felicia Schultz
  • Ananth Seshadri
  • Chloe Sexton
  • Samin Shahrabian
  • Cody Shiang
  • Avishi Singh
  • Anita Smith
  • Horim Song
  • Tanyamon Sriprapundh
  • Madeleine Su
  • Mina Sun
  • Saleh Syed
  • Elise Tam
  • Chenyang Tang
  • Katie Tieu
  • Sophi Tong
  • Kristina Tu
  • Eman Umer
  • Mallory Venezia
  • Izabel Vicente
  • Sang Wang
  • Kyle Wang
  • Melia Wong
  • Huibing Xie
  • Sarah Xie
  • Amy Xie
  • Haowei Xu
  • Hanmo Yang
  • Rohan Yarlagadda
  • Nurefsan Yildiz
  • Julie Yu
  • Wai Yuen
  • Sarah Zaidi
  • Mingliang Zhao
  • Kenneth Zheng

  • Niki Abbaszadeh
  • Ryan Abdollahi
  • Injila Adil
  • Kareem Airood
  • Nadia Alikani
  • Zoe Altarac
  • Ryan Aminloo
  • Maheen Asif
  • Luke Atienza
  • Cobe Badar
  • Adam Bashandy
  • Julian Bashawaty
  • Zaara Batla
  • Santiago Becerril
  • Koyna Bhagat
  • Anirudh Boppana
  • Jeremy Chae
  • Claire Chan
  • Ethan Chang
  • Ali Charara
  • Yasmine Cheng
  • Ethan Cherry
  • Nia Chhen Stewart
  • Lena Cho
  • Madison Choi
  • Dylan Chung
  • Bradin Chung
  • Camille Clement
  • Sarah Collins
  • Elizabeth Davis
  • Emma De Felippo
  • Jesse De Leon
  • Bruno De Oliveira
  • Miles Dela Cusack
  • Roshen Desai
  • Keo Dick
  • Madelene Dinn
  • Avery Doo
  • Raef Dulay
  • Sanah Durrani
  • Ava Ebtesam
  • Nour ElBahrawi
  • Lindsay Elliott*
  • Emaleena Elson
  • Madison Ertan
  • Vaughn Espe
  • Erik Fukushima
  • Elizabeth Gao
  • Noam Garibi
  • Maya Godett
  • Ashwin Goel
  • Justin Hahn
  • Aiden Han
  • Ismaeel Harsolia
  • Deyanna Hashemi Tari
  • Haniya Hassaan
  • Madison Hataishi
  • Jialu He
  • Tse-Shiun Ho
  • Mason Hosokawa
  • Deko Hsiao
  • Ethan Hsu
  • Guanyu Huang
  • Zhihui Huang
  • Claire Hung
  • Bernice Hung
  • Muhammad Ismail
  • Vishak Iyer
  • Dayeon Jeong
  • Ashley Jiang
  • Atharv Joshi
  • Inika Joshi
  • Ennes Kahf
  • Lauren Kang
  • Hannah Karabian
  • Heidi Kim
  • Junghoon Kim
  • Joan Kim
  • Hunter Kim
  • Jaewon Kim
  • Sean Kim
  • Anne Kim
  • Geonwoo Kim
  • Jonathan Kim
  • Kayleen Kim
  • Lisa Kim
  • Rachel Kim
  • Christian Kim
  • Malisha Kong
  • Ria Krish
  • Tyler Le
  • Josiah Lee
  • Yune Jee Lee
  • Do-Kyoung Lee
  • Jewelia Libejas-Suarez
  • Alison Lin
  • Ernest Lin
  • JiJia Liu
  • Sarah Liu
  • Skyller Liu
  • Dayma Lopez Hernandez
  • Lana Lu
  • Sophia Lyu
  • Dina Maddi
  • Aditya Mahesh
  • Mishaal Mahmood
  • Pieer Malaty
  • Miabella Marouche
  • Daniil Matso
  • Shengyu Mei
  • Rory Miller
  • Noa Mizuno
  • Claire Mo
  • Yousof Mohammed
  • Zoe Mohr
  • Vincent Mojica
  • Erin Moody
  • Lauren Mikhayla Mora
  • Gabriel Mutsvangwa
  • Nilan Narenthiran
  • Aarani Narenthiran
  • Sean Needham
  • Belan Ngo
  • Naomi Nguyen
  • Anh-Thu Nguyen
  • Minh-An Nguyen
  • Allyse Nguyen
  • Jesper Nguyen
  • Jonathan Nguyen
  • Sebastian Nieto
  • Sanika Nihalani
  • Jade Niu
  • Katherine Nuth
  • Owen Ouchi
  • Rocky Palacio
  • Noah Paniagua
  • Ellie Park
  • Gabrielle Parrott
  • Heet Patel
  • Tabatha Perdomo Ballon
  • Hasini Peyyala
  • Vianna Pineda
  • Brooke Portillo
  • Olivia Quach
  • Maxwell Raskin
  • Saveer Rawat
  • Jaedon Reyes
  • Elianna Reyes Serrano
  • Andrea Ruiz
  • Anna Salko
  • Aanya Sanan
  • Aaron Sato
  • Sophia Schneider
  • Ellany Scott
  • Julia Sebali
  • Sehaj Sethi
  • Ameera Shaaban
  • Shahob Shahmirzadi
  • Ayaan Sheikh
  • Junjie Shen
  • Taisho Shiono
  • Yenaal Shirwany
  • David Sloan
  • Ching Ka So
  • Andrew Solomon
  • Kay Su
  • Bo Yang Michael Sun
  • Ziyan Sun
  • Marcus Sung
  • Selina Syed
  • Ashley Tabayoyong
  • Taylor Takeda
  • Nicholas Tan
  • Kadence Tanael
  • Jiaqi Tang
  • Ava Torab
  • Beverlyn Tsai
  • Jeremy Tsao
  • Jacob Valencia
  • Elana Vernon-Chavez
  • Kexiang Wang
  • Yifan Wang
  • Ellie Wolf
  • Arianna Wong
  • Natalie Wong
  • Guanlin Yan
  • Jaewon Yi
  • Hanwen Ying
  • Sol Ha Yoo
  • Qingyang Yu
  • Audrey Yung
  • Zonglin Zhang

  • Gel Crystal Acabal
  • Laila Alshwiki
  • Khoo Yun Yi Ang
  • Patrick Ball
  • Austen Barnett
  • Alvaro Bolanos
  • Jarom Bosworth
  • Gabriel Campos
  • Wendy Cao
  • Amber Cao
  • Cody Nicon Cascalla
  • Tristan Jacob Castaneda
  • Sophia Chen
  • Mohan Chen
  • Jessie Chen
  • Hyungeun Choi
  • Sophia Choi
  • Elizabeth Choi
  • Tara Choudhary
  • Eune Chu
  • Jackson Cruz
  • Camryn Cummings
  • Baran Daliri
  • Angad Deodhar
  • Nathan Dishon
  • Diangy Dominguez
  • Max Dreben
  • Xinjun Du
  • Ayla Eagar
  • Leily Eghbali
  • Ziyan Fang
  • Mariam Faraj
  • Delband Farzaneh
  • Moses Fleischman
  • Yuze Gao
  • Jiayu Gao
  • Sophie Ghezelayagh
  • Maryam Gish
  • Lily Gonzalez
  • Arjun Gupta
  • Shaheen Habibi
  • Alexander Hackett
  • Nathan Handa
  • Bryson Harris
  • Daichi Hiraoka
  • Vivian Huang
  • Jihyun Hwang
  • Mari Igarashi
  • SangHyuk Im
  • Aidan Jang
  • Howard Ji
  • Ali Kalhor
  • Om Kamat
  • Diya Karthikeyan
  • Linda Khalfa
  • Irene Kim
  • Lauren Kim
  • SooAhn Kim
  • Shilin Kong
  • Sorelle Kreter
  • Sudarshanagopal Kunnavakkam
  • Mackenzie Lee
  • Zoe Lee
  • Sophia Li
  • Jiarong Liang
  • Alex Liu
  • Zhenyu Liu
  • Daniel Loaiza Santiago
  • Emily Lu
  • Wesley Lu
  • Kristine Lu
  • Ruiyang Luo
  • Yi Ching Man
  • Nabeel Mazhar
  • Evan McBride
  • John McPhie
  • Paola Medrano Granados
  • Luca Meinardi
  • Alexa Mills
  • Chase Morse
  • Adrian Motoshige
  • Julia Murdock
  • Brendan Nguyen
  • Ryan Nguyen
  • Kazuma Okada
  • D'artagnan Osier
  • Nathan Ouyang
  • Tanush Paradeshi
  • Sungeun Park
  • Nicholas Park
  • Lauren Peng
  • Annie Qu
  • Ryan Raisrohani
  • Alberto Ramos Escamilla Hernandez
  • Alanee Reyes
  • Jonathan Rho
  • Chiara Rignot*
  • Rivin Ruhunage
  • Juan Manuel Gerard Say
  • Leah Schulman
  • Joshua Serrano
  • Barsam Shafanehpour
  • Ayla Shamsnia
  • James Shi
  • Zaynab Siddiqui
  • Jihoon Son
  • Heidi Sorbille Aroca
  • Sonia Su
  • Ai Taguchi
  • Yuning Tian
  • Mariajose Tirado
  • Jocelyn Tsai
  • Andrew Vargas
  • Jialin Wang
  • Xueming Wang
  • Selena Wang
  • Brina Wang
  • Chuyi Wang
  • Mika Warschauer
  • Noah Warschauer
  • Ningxuan Wei
  • Abigail Weiland
  • Rachel Wong
  • Julianne Wu
  • Qi Xu
  • Roger Xu
  • Lok Yiu Xue
  • Biqing Yang
  • John Yang
  • Brooke Yeh
  • Seawoo Yoo
  • Jinru Yu
  • Tony Yu
  • Yuxian Zhai
  • Wanting Zhang
  • Yulin Zhang
  • Kairui Zhang
  • Yutong Zhao
  • Haoran Zhou
  • Luotong Zhou
  • Eric Zhu

  • Angelina Abraham
  • Faraz Ahmad
  • Hamza Aijaz
  • Joao Pedro Alcantara
  • Dakota Allison
  • Ferhat Ansari
  • Naomi Arragon
  • Alexandria Attia
  • Anisha Bhatnagar
  • Tyler Brooks
  • Keren Brown
  • Teagan Burrus
  • Cassidi Lea Casco
  • Ethan Chagan
  • Siya Chava
  • Ashton Chen
  • Nolan Chen
  • Arna Churiwala
  • Gal Cohen
  • Camille Conde*
  • Mikailah Elise Cortez
  • Preston De Alba
  • Amal Dini
  • Lauren Doan
  • Dillon Edwards
  • Jana Elnashar
  • Phoebe Fisher
  • Sarah Gagnier
  • April Garcia
  • Casey George
  • Clara Gerges
  • Andrew Gomez
  • Therese Gonzales
  • Gabriella Gonzalez
  • Ashley Gurrola
  • Kalea Guthrie
  • Elizabeth Han
  • Jake Haruki
  • Kaena Hashimoto
  • Setayesh Hemmati Zarei Koohi
  • Rafael Jimenez
  • Ava Kessel
  • Sara Khosravi
  • Anna Kim
  • Ariana King
  • Chloe Ko
  • Nathaniel Ko
  • Gayathri Kuniyil
  • Christine Lan*
  • Maciana Land
  • Paoho Lee
  • Peiling Lee
  • Katie Lee
  • JiaHui Li
  • Lauren Louie
  • Ruofei Lu
  • Lucas Marciano
  • Bethany McCallister
  • Ella McDaniel
  • Edward Mendoza
  • Ryan Miao
  • Rustam Mihhailov
  • Natalie Miller
  • Nikki Mobed
  • Margaret Moffitt
  • Casey Morgan
  • Yuiha Mori
  • Alexis Natividad
  • Connor Nelson
  • Violet Nguyen
  • Yiming Nie
  • Ava Nishizaka
  • Ashley Niu
  • Oscar Ortega
  • Shreya Pandhoh
  • Haeun Park
  • Sanika Patwardhan
  • Kirra Perez
  • Briana Perez
  • Anisha Rai
  • Prisha Ramasamy
  • Natalie Ramirez
  • Sabine Alexi Ramos
  • Ella Rea
  • Madison Rios
  • Camille Roussel*
  • Austin Sakai
  • Meera Sambhwani
  • Jonathan Sandoval
  • Jianna Sato
  • Yaelle Schouteeten*
  • Janvi Sharma
  • Roshni Sharma
  • Abigail Shih*
  • Mizuki Shirakawa
  • Maor Shriki
  • Sukanya Shunmugasundaram
  • Stefanie Siauw
  • Dominica So
  • Anna-Maria Stemmler
  • Audrey Sun
  • Yu Shi Sun
  • Jenice Sung
  • Rina Taing
  • Santiago Tamayo
  • Tiffany Terry
  • Daniel Varela
  • Forrest Vazquez
  • Kate Verhagen
  • Ulysse Verrando
  • Danielle Wang
  • Jacob Wang
  • Mark Wang
  • Frank Wang
  • Aiden Wei
  • Timothy Werner
  • Rio Whigham
  • Sara Whigham
  • Aaryana Wig
  • Sarah Wilbur
  • Autumn Wilcox
  • Brandon Wong
  • Yuri Yaguchi
  • Senna Yamamoto
  • Ruby Yang*
  • Madison Yeh
  • Wesley Zeng
  • Faith Zhang
  • Zitian Zhao

  • Jasmine Abo Abdo
  • Angelina Abraham
  • Camille Conde*
  • Tiancheng Hao
  • Christine Hattar
  • Luca Jenkins*
  • Yutong Ke
  • Sarah Kim
  • Isaac Lee
  • Mia Lee*
  • Jonathan Rho
  • Andrew Vargas
  • Kate Verhagen
  • Qingyang Yu

To learn more, visit our Seal of Biliteracy in IUSD webpage.

* Indicates triliteracy.