Awards & Recognition
Poets & Quants For undergrads Best & Brightest Business Majors – Class of 2018
"Abiel is not only immensely successful as a student and young professional, but also already an ambassador of the University and its commitment to equitable access of higher education".
Foster Quarterly Magazine - Winter 2018
Students Who Are leading the Foster School into the Second Century - And themselves into promising careers
"It would be tempting to declare - as so many have - Abiel Zewolday a 'natural' leader, though the assertion diminishes the work he has put in to make it look so easy.
The Edmonds-born son of Eritrean immigrants has engaged in the Foster School from A to Z. He is a mentor to Young Executives of Color (the high school pipeline program that first acquainted him with Foster) former President of the Association of Black Business Students and the Undergraduate Representative on the Foster Diversity Committee. He's active in the Lavin Entrepreneurial Action Program. And, working with the Consulting and Business Development Center, his student consulting team advised Seattle Credit Union on how to more effectively reach and serve Seattle's low-income populations.
He's interned at Microsoft, Concur, EY and, most recently, Apple. He'll return to Cupertino after graduating in May to begin his career in finance.
Zewolday has given as good as he's got from Foster, though he doesn't see it that way. 'Foster has prepared me to take on business challenges and has equipped me with the necessary tools to conquer them,' he says.
As for his own challenges to conquer? 'I want to start my own company and lead it as CEO'. You'd be wise not to bet against him."
2017 accenture student of the year
Awarded by Accenture and the University of Washington's Foster School of Business Consulting Business Development Center the 2017 Accenture Student of the Year.
In accepting the award, I thanked God, my Parents, and the Foster School of Business for granting me the opportunities I have and all that I achieved. I also challenged everyone in the audience including myself to understand our privilege and to put it to good use, to work together to fix the racial divide in our country, to value our immigrants, and give them opportunities to prosper. Because outside of our natives, we all are immigrants.
Myself and Gilbert Wootton, Managing Director at Accenture