Amy Kerwin Kobishop

Amy Kerwin Kobishop established this scholarship in 2017 to support an accountancy major.

Amy serves as vice president of community investments at Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, where she manages Great Lakes’ philanthropic strategy to help more students from low-income families, students of color, and first-generation students earn postsecondary degrees.

Kerwin oversees an annual grant-making budget in excess of $40 million. She also leads Great Lakes’ corporate giving program that engages and connects more than 2,000 employees with their local community. She started her career at Great Lakes by creating the internal audit function.

Prior to joining Great Lakes in 1994, Kerwin spent four years as an auditor at EY. She is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor. Kerwin received a bachelor’s degree in accountancy, summa cum laude, from UWL in 1990.