Global Scholars

Nate Jo

Nate Jo, 25, a 2022 graduate of Western Washington University, is passionate about housing policy reform. As a policy advisor in the office of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Jo helped build an innovative, cloud-based monitoring tool that expands access

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John Richardson

John Richardson, 23, a University of Alabama graduate with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science, was elected in his senior year to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. As an editor of the school’s Capstone Journal of Law

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Axana Soltan

Axana Soltan, 26, a graduate of the Honors Academy of Virginia Commonwealth University and a law graduate from the George Washington University Law School, is a passionate advocate for female empowerment. Born in Afghanistan under the repressive Taliban regime, she

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Emily Boutin

Emily Boutin, 21, a 2024 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, knows firsthand the impact of war on military families. Parts of her childhood were spent waiting for her father, a U.S. Army commander, to return safely from his combat

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Eisenhower Fellowships Names 2025 Global Scholars

PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 2024 – Eisenhower Fellowships selected four outstanding recent American university graduates for its 2025 Global Scholars Program, sending them to the University of Oxford and IE University in Madrid for a year of postgraduate study leading to

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Rishma Vora

Rishma Vora, 21, is a 2023 graduate of Georgetown University where she earned a Bachelor’s in Science degree in Foreign Service. As an undergraduate she founded Guzaarish (Urdu for hope, wish or desire), a Bollywood-fusion dance team that has excelled

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Riley Owen

Riley Owen, 24, is a 2023 graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in Public and International Affairs, helped lead the Latter-Day Saints Student Association and oversaw the men’s rugby team as its president. At the university’s Center for International

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Grace Fox

Grace Fox, 21, graduated from Columbia University in 2023 with a double major in psychology and ethnicity and race studies. A Native American from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, she was a congressional intern with the environmentally conscious Udall Foundation,

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