PoE double major awarded a Pickering Graduate Fellowship in Foreign Affairs
Congratulations from all of us at PoE to Environmental Studies/International Studies double-major Victoria Choe! See below for a message originally from Nadine Fabbi of the Canadian Studies Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Victoria (Center) delivering her paper at the Arctic panel (Association for Canadian Studies in the US, Ottawa, Nov. 2011) with Chair, Tim Pasch, U North Dakota and Center 2004-08 FLAS in Inuktitut, and Dominic Maltais, Arctic Task Force student recently hired by the Gov of Québec to serve as a liaison with the Inuit of Northern Québec.
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know that Victoria Choe, double-major in International and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington, was just awarded a Pickering Graduate Fellowship in Foreign Affairs – an award that provides $40,000 in funding for two years and mentors students to enter the foreign service. After being admitted to several top graduate programs, Victoria has selected the School of Public Affairs at American University where she will begin her studies this fall.
Victoria’s undergraduate research at the UW has been outstanding. In the 2011 Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty, she contributed the chapter, “Delimitation of the Lomonosov Ridge” examining Canadian, Danish and Russian efforts to claim the ridge; along with her Task Force colleagues, she presented her research at the Annual U.W. Undergraduate Research Symposium held in Spring Quarter 2011; in fall 2011, she gave a paper on Russian/Canadian Arctic indigenous mobilization at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the US held in Ottawa; this winter her research project, “Sustainable Development: Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic” was accepted by U.W.’s Program on the Environment as her Capstone project; and, during spring break she attended the Coastal and Marine Management Program at University Centre of the Westfjords continuing her research on the role of Russian Arctic indigenous peoples in oil/gas development projects. Victoria has also served as the assistant to the director of the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium and just completed a successful internship with the Pacific Northwest Economic Region.
I cannot express enough how tremendously proud we are of Victoria’s accomplishments and how happy I am to see this latest success which will truly propel Victoria into a very successful professional future. Victoria – from all of us, congratulations! – Nadine