CCA Interior Design undergraduate awarded prestigious national scholarship
Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku (BFA Interior Design 2025) has earned the acclaimed 2024 Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Student scholarship, helping to cover the cost of her final year of studies and launch her design career.
Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku (BFA Interior Design 2025). Courtesy of the designer.
Congratulations to Interior Design undergraduate student Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku for earning the 2024 Angelo Donghia Foundation’s Senior Student Scholarship award. This renowned award covers the expenses for Nitya’s culminating year of studies at CCA, as she looks to leap into a professional career in interior design.
Nitya earned this top honor with her visionary project “Woven Studio: Fashion Store & Makerspace,” which imagines a fashion house for the prominent designer Prabal Gurung, inspired by his life journey and the blending of the cities of Kathmandu and New York City.
“Winning this scholarship will forever be etched in my mind as an exciting and impactful moment,” says Nitya. “Being a designer is my calling and this award further reassures that I am on the right path. I cannot express enough of my gratitude toward my professors and peers who have always motivated me to push my boundaries and do my best.”
The Donghia Foundation was established by the late Angelo Donghia, a renowned, internationally recognized American interior designer whose style was characterized by simple lines, pure materials, and sensual textures.
“This prestigious award boosted my confidence as an interior designer and will surely give me a head start in the industry.”
(BFA Interior Design 2025)
Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku, "Woven Studio: Fashion Store & Makerspace." Courtesy of the designer.
Nitya is already making a name for herself. Last year, at the Architecture division’s Awards Ceremony, she was nominated for the Interior Design Materiality and Space Studio Award and received the Interior Design Advanced Studio Design Methodology Award. This past summer, through an initiative of the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence, she was one of two CCA Architecture division students to be selected for a competitive internship at Gensler’s San Francisco office.
“This prestigious award boosted my confidence as an interior designer and will surely give me a head start in the industry,” says Nitya. “Additionally this will bring me a step closer to my goal of blending together Indian interior design aesthetics with other cultures to reflect a rich tapestry of styles and tradition.”
She adds, “I am immensely grateful to Angelo Donghia Foundation for this honor, and would especially like to thank my professors Margaux Schindler and Nastaran Mousavi for all their guidance and support.”