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Miami Dade College (MDC) graduate Daniel Yantani Coto has been named a 2025-26 Newman Civic Fellow, the nation’s highest honor for student engagement leadership.

Earlier this year, Coto was awarded a prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, a highly competitive award that provides up to $55,000 annually to complete a bachelor’s degree.

Coto, who graduated from MDC in May, is pursuing a degree in economics with minors in political economy and applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University. He will join 151 Newman Civic Fellows from 38 states; Washington, DC, and Mexico as part of the 2025 cohort, who are nominated annually by Campus Compact member presidents and chancellors.

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