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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 1999
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CONTACT:
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Mary Ann
Hill
(781) 283-2376
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WELLESLEY SENIOR WINS
MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP
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WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Wellesley College
senior Chavi Keeney Nana is one of 40 Americans to
be awarded the Marshall Scholarship to study at a
university in Britain next year. Winners are
selected for their intellectual distinction and
their potential to become leaders in their fields
and make a contribution to society.
A double major in International Relations and
German, Nana currently is writing an honors thesis
on the use of repatriation programs which
incorporate micro-credit schemes to ease the
social, political and economic impact of
repatriation on the returning refugeesí
country of origin. She plans to continue her study
of refugee policy, forced migration, and
repatriation when her Marshall Scholarship to
Oxford University begins this fall. She plans one
day to attend law school for human rights law and
to become actively involved in refugee policy
development.
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Chavi Keeney Nana
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During her junior year, Nana, who is fluent in
German, studied at the University of Konstanz in Germany
through a Wellesley College exchange program. While there,
she worked at the Research Center for International and
European Law on Immigration and Asylum.
Nana has worked with Bosnian refugees in Germany and with
the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Rome during the
Kosovo crisis. She currently volunteers for the IRC, working
with refugees in the Boston area. She worked with the Sindh
Education Foundation to help develop community schools for
young girls in the urban and rural slums of Pakistan.
While at Wellesley, Nana has been a member and president
of the "Body and Soul" vocal jazz ensemble and has served as
a Resident Advisor, a volunteer leadership position in one
of the residence halls.
Nana is the ninth Wellesley College graduate to be
awarded the Marshall Scholarship since its inception 45
years ago by the British government as a gesture of thanks
to the United States for the assistance received under the
Marshall Plan after World War II. Former Wellesley College
president and alumna from the class of 1961, Nannerl
Overholser Keohane, now president of Duke University, was
the first Wellesley recipient of the award.
A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Nana is a 1995 graduate
of Community High School there.
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liberal arts education
for women who will make a difference in the world.
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