One of my passions is the Overseas Press Club Foundation and we have just selected 15 college students to come to New York and receive scholarships and fellowships in support of their dream of becoming foreign correspondents. That will happen on February 20 at the Yale Club in mid-town Manhattan.
Here are the winners:
Congratulations to the 2015 OPC Foundation Scholars!
Ted Andersen, University of California- Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (BA, UCal/Santa Barbara)
Miriam Berger, Oxford University
(BA, Wesleyan University)
Fatima Bhojani, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BA, University of Pennsylvania)
Makini Brice, New York University
(BFA, University of Southern California)
Max deHaldevang, Columbia University Harriman Institute (BA, Cambridge University)
J.p. Lawrence, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BA, Bard College)
Tusha Mittal, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BA, DePauw University)
Eilís M. O’Neill, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BA, Oberlin College)
Timothy Patterson, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BS, US Naval Academy)
Alexander Saeedy, Yale University
James Reddick, University of California- Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (BA, Lewis & Clark College)
Jenny Starrs, Northwestern University
Ben Taub, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
(AB, Princeton University)
Katerina Voutsina, The Fletcher School, Tufts University (MA, Boston University)
Kyle Walker, University of Tulsa