Last month Nichiren Rashad Jones (SFS ‘06) was named a Pickering Fellow, as part of a prestigious fellowship funded by the U.S. State Department.
The award will finance Jones’ tuition, fees, books, living expenses and one round-trip travel stipend during his last two years at Georgetown and first year of graduate school.
Jones, an International Politics major pursuing a certificate in African Studies, is Georgetown’s lone Pickering Fellow this year. He is spending this semester studying security and intelligence at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
He plans to obtain a Masters in Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University before fulfilling his four-and-a-half-year obligation as a State Department Foreign Service Officer.
“My career goals are to become a senior-level Foreign Service political officer and help formulate a foreign policy that promotes peaceful resolutions of conflicts and improves relations with the international community,” Jones said.
Pickering Fellows are selected based on leadership, academic excellence and extracurricular involvement. Fellows are selected from universities across the U.S. 20 college students were named Pickering Fellows this year.
All selected must meet Department of State Foreign Service entry requirements.
The list of required undergraduate courses closely resembles the SFS core curriculum.
