We're the only consulting firm focused exclusively on scholarships.
Not financial aid broadly. Not higher ed generally. Scholarships. It's what we do day in, day out. And it's why the organizations we work with trust us to help them get it right.
How we got here
Students First Consulting was founded by Sarah Battersby, Julia Da Silva, and Erika Orsulak, three professionals who spent years inside scholarship-providing organizations, not advising them from the outside, but running the programs, managing the funds, training the staff, and sitting across from the students.
We started SFC because we saw the same problems everywhere we went. Great organizations with great intentions, stuck in processes that weren't working. Staff drowning in the operational. Boards asking questions no one could answer.
We knew we could help, because we'd already solved these problems from the inside. Now we solve them for others.
What makes us different
We’ve sat in your chair.
We're former in-house scholarship professionals. We don't give advice from a distance. We give it from experience.
Scholarships are all we do.
We're not a generalist firm. This is our entire focus. That depth means we've seen your problem before.
We create things you’ll use.
No shelf reports. Templates, policies, workflows, and tools that work on Monday morning.
Meet the team
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Julia Da Silva
Founding Partner & Principal Consultant
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Erika Orsulak
Founding Partner & Principal Consultant
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Alexandria Franklin
Administrative Assistant
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Sarah Battersby
Co-Founder & Advisor
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