Baig one of 59 students selected this year.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Pakistani American student Hira Baig, a Junior at Rice University, is the only South Asian to figure in the list of the 2014 Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation recipients.
Baig, from Sugar Land, Texas, is one of 59 students selected from 655 nominations from nearly 300 institutionsannounced as recipients by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Each one will receive up to $30,000 in scholarship money for their graduate studies, as well as “priority admission and supplemental financial aid at some premier graduate institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling, and special internship opportunities within the federal government, according to the Truman Scholarship’s website.
Baig is a Political Science and Policy Studies student at Rice University, in Texas. She is very politically active, and has plans for a career with the US Department of State. She will graduate a year early and become an M.A. candidate in religion, ethics and politics at Harvard University this fall. She plans to go to law school the following year to complete a joint M.A/J.D. program.
Baig has worked on a number of local political campaigns, and is currently an employee of Teach for America. She also has spent time in the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the House of Representatives, and the World Affairs Council of Houston. She has traveled to London and Shanghai as part of a research project to study the effects of Islamophobia, and hopes to work to eradicate it.
“I will be studying religious diversity in the United States and its meaning for American public life,” Baig said in a statement. “I am hoping to garner a better understanding of challenges the United States’ complex religious landscape faces as they affect policy. At Harvard, I will continue my study of Arabic and draw connections between policy and religious issues. As a law student, I plan on participating in counterterrorism and human rights clinics. This will allow me to address harms committed to religious groups by the government’s counterterrorism practices, preparing me to contribute to antidiscrimination efforts through a career in government.”
Founded in 1977, the Truman Scholarship Foundation has help 2,965 students pay for their graduate educations over the last 37 years. This year’s recipients, from 52 different states, will all congregate at the William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri on May 25, for a lavish awards ceremony in which they will receive an award for their body of work, and in recognition of their selection for the Truman Scholarship.
1 Comment
Law school is a scam!!!!! DO NOT go unless $200,000+ in non-dischargeable student loan debt, no job, and living in your parents’ basement is your idea of fun. It’s a scam set up to make law administrators and professors wealthy off your federal government loans.