Academics
History Major Receives Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, Congratulated by Vice President Kamala Harris
The competitive award is for a diverse group of student leaders to attend a four-week summer study abroad program focused on leadership, intercultural communication and social justice. Sophomore Niki Joshi will study in Ireland this summer with 13 other fellows from across the United States.
“I knew hundreds of other intelligent and accomplished students were applying and that the competition would be stiff,” she says. “So, receiving the congratulatory phone call was an unexpected and wonderful surprise. I still don’t think the news has really sunk in.”
Joshi met the other fellows in her cohort in a congratulatory Zoom meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris, Ambassador Daniel Mullhall, Taoiseach Micheal Martin and Nettie Washington Douglass, chairwoman and co-founder of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, Frederick Douglass’s great-great-granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington.
“[They] were so kind, genuine, supportive and encouraging,” Joshi says. “I left the meeting feeling like I could do anything.”
