In the News: Jade Rhoads Earns Prestigious Pickering Fellowship

Jade Rhoads’ interest in pursuing an advanced degree in international affairs and working in the Foreign Service began during her service in the military. Rhoads served active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2005-09—stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, and deployed to Iraq during the years of 2006 and 2008, primarily in the Al Anbar region.
As she graduates from SU this spring with a dual major in Russian language, literature and culture from the College of Arts and Sciences and in geography with a minor in security studies from A&S and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, she is well on her way to achieving that goal. Rhoads has been named a 2018 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow and plans to attend the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, this fall. She is one of only 30 recipients chosen from hundreds of applicants from more than 200 colleges and universities around the nation.
Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Washington Center, the Pickering Fellowship awards recipients two years of financial support, mentoring and professional development to prepare them for a career in the Foreign Service. Fellows also complete a domestic internship at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and an overseas internship at a U.S. embassy.  Read more about this in SU News…