8/29/19 – Hashi.org is proud
to announce the winner of the 13th annual Travel Scholarship to an
American citizen! This year, choosing one winner amongst the many outstanding
applicants was extremely difficult. We received dozens of applications with
essays describing a variety of ambitious and laudable backgrounds and aspirations,
including international business majors (medical law/bioethics, et al),
students studying multiculturalism/colonization/cultural differences and
similarities in LGBTQ communities, et al, internationally traveling musicians,
and many more.
And so, we are deeply gratified with the
ambition and accomplishments of our applicants this year with the common theme
of wanting to reach beyond our
borders and be a part of these bridge-building efforts in our world today. But none more so than this year’s scholarship winner, Stephanie Wong
Su!
Stephanie is currently an undergraduate
biology research student with a minor in business management, with the goal of
becoming an environmental scientist and advocate. She wants to start an
international non-profit organization that educates and empowers people around
the world to protect the environment. Towards that end, she will be spending
the next semester in Chungnam National University in South Korea, studying and
doing research on the severity of pollution and environmental problems South
Korea is experiencing and what solutions they are currently implementing.
Being a first-generation college student
from a large family, we applaud her ambition not only to become a graduate, but
to gain international experience and immersion in other cultures, and to do so
with such an important and admirable field of study. We find her
ambition to work with international relations, one person to another, and one
country to another, to be exemplary of the mission and ideals of hashi.org. We
are proud to award this $1,000 travel scholarship to Stephanie Wong Su!
Congratulations and best wishes to all our applicants in their aspirations!
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