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Pomona
College Junior Kameelah Rasheed Lands Two Big
Scholarships after Whirlwind Trip
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Kameelah Rasheed, a Pomona College junior, has received both
a Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship and a Rockefeller
Brothers Fund Fellowship for Students of Color Entering the
Teaching Profession, which combined will provide up to
$46,000 for graduate school study.
Studying abroad in South Africa, Rasheed flew from Cape Town
to New York for an interview for a Rockefeller Fellowship.
Then, after spending a night in the Big Apple, she got on a
plane for England to meet the deadline to interview for the
prestigious Truman Scholarship. All this jet-setting
exhausted Rasheed, but her passion and dedication must have
come through nonetheless. She wound up winning both
scholarships.
"She's very energetic," says Paula Goldsmid, the Pomona
College graduate fellowships coordinator who helped arrange
the travel. "She's very lively ... She's just very
passionate about what she wants to do with her life."
A resident of the Bay Area, Rasheed plans to use the
scholarships to pursue a masters degree in education with a
teaching credential so she can teach in underserved schools
and youth prisons. Later she plans to pursue her doctoral
degree, preparing her for non-profit work focused on
"prioritizing community-based crime deterrence methods in
our juvenile justice system."
Rasheed is majoring in public policy analysis with a
concentration in the Africa/African Diaspora. In South
Africa, she is taking courses in sociology/diversity
studies, African studies, Arabic and criminology. She is
involved with the University of Cape Town’s Treatment Action
Committee, which tries to encourage the South African
government to roll out antiretroviral AIDS treatment and
works to create awareness about HIV prevention. She is
training to conduct workshops in prisons about AIDS, HIV and
treatment.
For the Truman Scholarship, Rasheed was one of 75 scholars
selected from 602 candidates nominated by 299 colleges and
universities. Truman Scholarships provide $30,000 for
graduate study. Scholars also receive 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.
Rasheed is one of 25 winners of a Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Fellowship. Fellows receive $12,000 for one year or $16,000
for two years of full-time study in master’s level programs
in teacher education or a related field.
Rasheed found out that she won the two scholarships after
waiting in a long line to check her e-mail at the University
of Cape Town’s upper campus. When she finally logged on, she
noticed an e-mail from Pomona College President David Oxtoby
with the subject line “Congratulations.” Confused as to why
President Oxtoby would send such an e-mail, she held off
opening it. Then she noticed another e-mail that said
"Welcome, Truman 2005." "I closed the e-mail and reopened
the e-mail to make sure I wasn’t imagining this,'' writes
Rasheed. "Then I opened the e-mail from President Oxtoby and
everything made sense.'' She scrolled down to see the rest
of her e-mail and discovered more good news. She'd won the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund award as well.
Rasheed is a resident of East Menlo Park, California. Until
she was 12, she lived in East Palo Alto, California.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona Colleges, visit www.pomona.edu.
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