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Three
Pomona College Students Awarded Rotary Club
Ambassadorial Scholarships
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Three Pomona College students have been awarded Rotary Club
Ambassadorial Scholarships for international study. Deborah
Brand, Evan Flagg, and Kaneisha Grayson will each receive up
to $25,000 to pay for tuition, fees and other expenses.
The scholarships are intended to promote international
understanding by sending students abroad as goodwill
ambassadors. Candidates must specify five different
institutions in at least three different countries at which
they can pursue their desired course of study. While
studying, students are expected to serve as ambassadors by
involvement with the Rotary club and local community. Flagg,
Grayson and Brand will learn next fall to which countries
they will be going.
Brand, a senior international relations major from New York,
NY, plans to study documentary film in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Her other top choices are Cape Town, South
Africa, and Cordoba, Argentina. She hopes to make
documentary films in Argentina to bring back to show to
Rotary clubs and others in America. This summer she’s
driving from California back to New York, and she hopes to
make a film during that time that she can take with her to
Argentina.
“I hope, in terms of Rotary, to really be able to create
something to improve understanding of the country that I’m
going to,” she said.
Brand studied for a semester in Bolivia during her junior
year and when she was younger participated in exchange
programs with France, Norway, and Canada through Children’s
International Summer Village. Prior to going abroad on the
scholarship, Brand will do internships at Indonesia’s
Ministry of Tourism and at Plum TV in Colorado. She plans to
pursue a career making documentary films.
Flagg, a junior philosophy, politics, and economics major
from Pomona, Ca., hopes to study in Johannesburg, South
Africa. His other top choices are Accra, Ghana, and
Kingston, Jamaica. He’s interested in studying developing
nations’ links to their colonial history as well as
exploring the complex issues dividing rich and poor in
developing countries.
While studying he plans to operate a basketball program for
local children. Flagg is a guard for the Pomona basketball
team, and has worked with youth basketball programs in the
past. Running a program for local youth would provide a way
to communicate with them, become a part of the community
and, hopefully, expose them to new possibilities for their
lives. He studied in Cape Town during the fall of 2004 and
worked with the local Hoops for Hope basketball program.
This summer he’ll be a senior interviewer for Pomona’s
admissions office.
“I really look forward to being able to travel,” Flagg said.
“I think it gives you whole new perspective of the world and
your role in the world.
Grayson, a black studies major from Austin, Texas, plans to
study African literature and creative writing in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Her other top choices are Accra,
Ghana, and Cape Coast, Ghana.
“I’m really excited about spending an entire year of my life
in Africa,” she said. “I just want to be completely immersed
in the culture.”
In addition to studying, she plans to work on a literacy
program with the local community. In Johannesburg the Rotary
Club operates a Literacy House that hosts literacy programs
for adults, police officers in particular. If she ends up in
either of the other cities, she would work with the local
Rotary club to create a program.
A Hart Institute for American History grant, from Pomona
College, will allow Grayson to spend this summer researching
the social, political, and economic history of her
neighborhood in Austin. She eventually hopes to be a writer
but is also interested in working in the non-profit sector,
especially with an organization dealing with issues of
equity and education.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. For more information on Pomona College,
visit its website at www.pomona.edu |
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