OURS National Scholarships

Hanna Morris

Hanna Morris is an incoming senior majoring in Society & Communications and minoring in History with a focus on Global Environmental Politics. She is interested in pursuing graduate school for International Relations and Media & Communications with a research focus on Global Environmental Communications. Hanna has received numerous scholarships in the past, including the Santander Scholarship awarded by the University of Oxford, the IARU Global Summer Scholarship, and the Rogers Family Scholarship. In fall 2014, she designed and taught a student-led course, “Communicating Sustainably”. She was also the Environmental Blogger […]

Ashley Miller

Ashley Miller is a senior at UC Berkeley majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Global Education Reform Policy. She is interested in pursuing a future with domestic and international education issues, believing in early childhood advocacy in the education system to relieve the cradle to prison pipeline and to alleviate poverty. Notably, through her involvement as a Break Leader with the Alternative Breaks program in their New Orleans trip to the Gulf Coast in 2014, Ashley demonstrated a strong background in social justice work in developing a cooperative […]

Rebecca Peters

Rebecca Peters graduated in May 2014 as a University Medalist with a B.Sc in Society and Environment, and a B.A in International Development/Global Poverty. Rebecca was awarded the Marshall Scholarship in 2014 to obtain her MSc at the University of Manchester, and will be completing her second year at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Rebecca received the Morris K. Udall Scholarship, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and the Donald A. Strauss Scholarship for her commitment to the human right of access to clean water. In addition to her […]

Marie Lefebvre

Marie Lefebvre double-majored in Portuguese Language & Literature and Geography. She is fluent in French and Spanish and has travelled extensively in France and the Phillippines. She studied in Portugal for two months, and with the Boren Scholarship, she headed to Brazil to study at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro to study Portuguese. Through this opportunity, Marie immersed herself in Brazilian culture, society, and politics and worked to positively impact U.S-Brazil relations.