2021年肯尼迪奖学金获得者

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Kennedy Scholars 2021
New Kennedy Scholars for 2021-22

The Trustees of the Kennedy Memorial Trust are delighted to announce the selection of eight new Kennedy Scholars for the 2021-22 academic year. All will receive substantial scholarships to attend Harvard University for postgraduate study, following a competitive UK-wide selection process. The new Scholars embrace a broad range of academic and professional interests, but are united by a determination to make a positive difference to society through their academic research and future careers. In addition to the new 2021-22 Kennedy Scholars listed below, five Scholars initially selected in 2020 will commence their courses in 2021, due to disruptions relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kennedy Scholarships were established as part of the UK's national memorial to US President John F. Kennedy, following his assassination in 1963. The Scholarships were envisaged as a "living memorial" which would invest in future generations and advance the ideals with which President Kennedy was closely associated: intellectual endeavour, leadership, and public service. Offered by the Kennedy Memorial Trust each year, more than 550 Kennedy Scholarships have been awarded since the programme's inception, with alumni going on to distinguished careers in a wide range of fields and professions.

Liam Devlin, 30
Special Student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Liam is an archaeologist specialising in cultural heritage protection and the illicit antiquities trade. He returned to higher education as a mature student and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2017, with a degree in Archaeology and Classical Civilisation. He went on to the University of Cambridge where he recently completed an MPhil in Archaeology with Distinction. His thesis developed an interpretative methodology for accurately understanding seemingly declining sale rates in looted Cycladic figurines. Liam has participated in numerous international archaeological digs, including in Italy, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania and Greece; where on Crete, he was a Curatorial Assistant for the British School at Athens, working in The Stratigraphical Museum of Knossos. He has also worked as an instructor on the British Museum’s Emergency Management Training Scheme in Iraq, and hopes to specialise in the protection of heritage sites in the Middle East in his future career. This will also be his academic focus as a Special Student at Harvard, where he plans to take an interdisciplinary course of study blending archaeology, cultural heritage studies, and languages. He will be based in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Saul Glick, 27
Special Student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in English Literature in 2018, Saul joined London’s Metropolitan Police Service as a Police Constable. Saul has spent most of his time with the Met as a PC in the very deprived East London boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets. During this time, he has been a first responder to serious crimes such as drug dealing, armed robbery, kidnapping, and stabbing. Whilst carrying out his duties as a frontline PC, Saul has passed the exams to become a detective. At Harvard, he intends to study a mixture of disciplines relevant to urban social problems and crime, ranging from child psychology to how to reform governmental agencies. On returning from Harvard, Saul intends to re-join the Met where he hopes to be able to utilise the lessons he learns from his studies in America.

Imogen Hobby, 24
MPP, Harvard Kennedy School

Imogen is an educator with an interest in using her classroom experience to tackle educational inequality at the policy level. She graduated from Oxford in 2018 with a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After university, Imogen moved to Cardiff to work as a maths teacher with Teach First and stayed on for a third year after finishing the programme. During her time in the classroom she has developed an interest in education policy, particularly around addressing the barriers children from disadvantaged backgrounds face in their school lives and beyond. Imogen is looking forward to exploring potential policy solutions to the attainment gap with a view to working on this issue when she returns to the UK. Outside the classroom, Imogen is a keen rugby player and is excited to see how the sport is growing in popularity across the pond!

Paula Kelly, 29
LLM, Harvard Law School

Growing up in Belfast in the early years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed ignited Paula’s interest in the law. After completing her English degree at the University of Cambridge, she spent several years working in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the House of Commons, advising a number of senior politicians on matters such as Brexit, the implications of welfare reform, and women’s rights. Alongside this, she also studied part-time for a Master’s degree in Social Policy at the LSE, graduating top of her cohort. She eventually decided to pursue her ambition to become a barrister and was awarded scholarships to study a law conversion, graduating with distinction.

She hopes that the Harvard LL.M will provide her with an in-depth understanding and international perspective of the areas that she wishes to practise in: criminal, public, human rights, and information and media law. She is particularly excited by the prospect of exploring debates surrounding policing reform, protection of minority rights, and electoral law in America, and to consider comparisons with Northern Ireland. The many legal clinics and student practice organisations at Harvard Law School also offer the opportunity to develop her advocacy skills.

Priscilla Mensah, 28
MPP, Harvard Kennedy School

Priscilla has recently finished four years representing the UK as the Trade for Development Policy Attachée at the United Nations and World Trade Organisation in Geneva. A native South Londoner, Priscilla graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2015 with a BA in Politics, Psychology and Sociology (First Class Honours). At Cambridge she played an active role in anti-racist and women’s rights campaigning and in spring 2015 became the first Black woman elected President of the Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU), leading a team focused on student mental health, cultural transformation and widening participation.

Priscilla believes in the transformative potential of progressive policy, seeing local and national politics as a necessary site for liberal reforms in education, labour markets and criminal justice. During her four years in Switzerland Priscilla maintained her focus on systemic inequalities, in particular those experienced by students of colour and low income and disabled students. Her volunteer responsibilities include seats on the advisory panels of IntoUniversity, Get In Cambridge and the Black British Voices Project.

Priscilla will specialise in urban and social policy in order to develop her expertise in urban educational programme delivery. She also intends to use her time at Harvard to understand the history of institutions serving blind and deaf-blind learners for the purposes of her forthcoming PhD on blind Black women and girls in the British education system.

Isabella Mosselmans, 27
LLM, Harvard Law School

Isabella is a human rights lawyer who has specialised in immigration and asylum law. In 2018, she co-founded Here for Good, a legal charity that exists to provide free immigration advice to in-need European nationals and their family members post-Brexit. She trained at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP and has been a lawyer at Safe Passage, a charity that primarily assists unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to reunite with their families in the UK. She is a Trustee for Restless Development, a youth-led international development agency.

Isabella is on the 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship in Europe. She holds a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Graduate Diploma in Law and Masters of Law in Legal Practice from BPP Law School. She was nominated one of LSE’s top 20 inspirational women in 2015 for her role as President of the Amnesty International Society and external NGO work.

Isabella is particularly interested in the transformative power of the law. At Harvard, she plans to undertake a range of courses in Constitutional Law, International Human Rights Law and Social Change. She intends to harness the law to make our society a more compassionate, just and equitable one.

Dr Krithi Ravi, 26
MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Krithi is an academic junior doctor working in the NHS. She is interested in the mechanisms of the transgenerational transfer of health disparities during pregnancy and early childhood. She will be undertaking a Master's in Public Health at the Harvard Chan School. Krithi completed her Bachelor's in Medical Sciences (First Class Honours) and her medical degree at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded several prizes and scholarships. At university, she was involved in a number of global and local health equity initiatives, including the Oxford Refugee Health Initiative, the Oxford Global Health Group, and the Oxford Global Surgery Group. She continues to pursue these interests as a doctor, and is currently undertaking a project looking at the effect of socioeconomic status on the growth of preterm infants. Krithi hopes her time at the Harvard Chan School will enable her to integrate advocacy and research to meaningfully address health disparities.

Ella Williams, 25
Special Student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ella holds an MA in French and Arabic from St Andrews University and an MSc in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University, where she wrote her thesis on sexual violence against women in Morocco. Following this, she moved to the Atlas Mountains to volunteer for a girls’ education charity. Her academic interests include international development, education, social change and gender equality, with a focus on North Africa. She is currently studying for a DPhil at Magdalen College, Oxford, where her research aims to explore the relationship between secondary education and girls’ empowerment through the case study of boarding houses which allow girls from remote villages in Morocco to access secondary education. She is particularly interested in exploring alternative empowerment pathways and challenging conventional discourse on girls’ empowerment. At Harvard, she plans to take courses in education policy, social change and ethnography, to bridge the gap between her previous studies and area of PhD research. She also hopes to work towards fluency in Arabic and attend the Women and Public Policy Programme at the Harvard Kennedy School.





2021年肯尼迪奖学金获得者
2021-22年度新的肯尼迪奖学金获得者

肯尼迪纪念信托基金的受托人很高兴地宣布，2021-22学年将有8名新的肯尼迪学者入选。经过全英国范围内的竞争性选拔，他们都将获得大量奖学金，前往哈佛大学进行研究生学习。新学者们拥有广泛的学术和专业兴趣，但他们团结一致，决心通过他们的学术研究和未来的职业生涯为社会带来积极的影响。除了下面列出的2021-22年度新的肯尼迪学者外，由于与冠状病毒大流行有关的中断，最初在2020年选定的五名学者将在2021年开始他们的课程。

肯尼迪奖学金是在美国总统约翰-F-肯尼迪于1963年遇刺后，作为英国对他的国家纪念活动的一部分而设立的。该奖学金被设想为一个 "活的纪念"，它将投资于后代，并推进与肯尼迪总统密切相关的理想：智力努力、领导力和公共服务。由肯尼迪纪念信托基金每年提供，自该计划开始以来，已经颁发了550多个肯尼迪奖学金，校友们在广泛的领域和职业中获得了杰出的职业生涯。

Liam Devlin, 30岁
哈佛大学艺术与科学研究生院特别学生

利亚姆是一名考古学家，专门研究文化遗产保护和非法古物交易问题。他作为一个成熟的学生回到了高等教育，并于2017年从格拉斯哥大学毕业，获得了考古学和古典文明学位。他继续在剑桥大学学习，最近以优异的成绩完成了考古学的硕士课程。他的论文开发了一种解释方法，以准确理解被掠夺的基克拉迪小雕像中看似下降的销售率。利亚姆参加过许多国际考古发掘，包括在意大利、土耳其、塞浦路斯、阿尔巴尼亚和希腊；在克里特岛，他是雅典英国学校的一名策展助理，在克诺索斯地层博物馆工作。他还曾在大英博物馆在伊拉克的应急管理培训计划中担任讲师，并希望在他未来的职业生涯中专门研究中东地区的遗产地保护问题。这也将是他在哈佛大学作为特别学生的学术重点，他计划在那里学习一个融合考古学、文化遗产研究和语言的跨学科课程。他将在近东语言和文明系工作。

索尔-格里克, 27岁
哈佛大学艺术与科学研究生院特别学生

在2018年从爱丁堡大学英语文学专业毕业后，索尔加入了伦敦的大都会警察局，成为一名警员。索尔在伦敦警察局的大部分时间都是在非常贫困的东伦敦哈克尼区和塔哈姆莱茨区担任警员。在此期间，他一直是严重犯罪的第一响应者，如毒品交易、武装抢劫、绑架和刺伤。在履行一线警察职责的同时，索尔已经通过了成为一名侦探的考试。在哈佛，他打算学习与城市社会问题和犯罪有关的混合学科，从儿童心理学到如何改革政府机构。从哈佛回来后，索尔打算重新加入伦敦警察局，他希望能够利用他在美国学习时学到的经验。

伊莫金-霍比，24岁
哈佛大学肯尼迪学院MPP

伊莫金是一名教育工作者，有兴趣利用她的课堂经验在政策层面上解决教育不平等问题。她于2018年毕业于牛津大学，获得哲学、政治学和经济学一等学位。大学毕业后，伊莫金来到卡迪夫，在Teach First担任数学教师，并在完成该项目后留任三年。在课堂上，她对教育政策产生了兴趣，特别是围绕解决来自弱势背景的儿童在学校生活和其他方面面临的障碍。伊莫金期待着探索解决成绩差距的潜在政策，以期在她回国后从事这方面的工作。在课堂之外，伊莫金热衷于橄榄球运动，她很高兴看到这项运动在英国越来越受欢迎。

宝拉-凯利，29岁
哈佛法学院法学硕士

在贝尔法斯特长大，在耶稣受难日协议签署后的最初几年，点燃了宝拉对法律的兴趣。在剑桥大学完成她的英语学位后，她在北爱尔兰议会和下议院工作了几年，就英国脱欧、福利改革的影响和妇女权利等问题向一些高级政治家提供咨询。与此同时，她还在伦敦经济学院兼职攻读社会政策硕士学位，并以同届学生第一名的成绩毕业。她最终决定追求成为一名大律师的理想，并获得了学习法律转换的奖学金，以优异的成绩毕业。

她希望哈佛大学法学硕士课程能让她对她希望从事的领域有深入的了解和国际视野：刑事、公共、人权以及信息和媒体法。她对探索美国围绕警务改革、保护少数民族权利和选举法的辩论的前景特别兴奋，并考虑与北爱尔兰进行比较。哈佛法学院的许多法律诊所和学生实践组织也为她提供了发展宣传技能的机会。

普里西拉-门萨，28岁
哈佛大学肯尼迪学院MPP

Priscilla最近完成了代表英国在联合国和日内瓦世界贸易组织担任贸易促进发展政策专员的四年工作。作为土生土长的南伦敦人，普里西拉于2015年毕业于剑桥大学，获得政治学、心理学和社会学学士学位（一级荣誉）。在剑桥，她在反种族主义和妇女权利运动中发挥了积极作用，并在2015年春天成为剑桥大学学生会（CUSU）第一位当选的黑人女性主席，领导一个专注于学生心理健康、文化转型和扩大参与的团队。

普里西拉相信进步政策的变革潜力，认为地方和国家政治是教育、劳动力市场和刑事司法自由改革的必要场所。在瑞士的四年里，普里西拉一直关注系统性的不平等问题，特别是有色人种学生和低收入及残疾学生所经历的不平等。她的志愿者职责包括在IntoUniversity、Get In Cambridge和英国黑人之声项目的咨询小组中的席位。

普里西拉将专门研究城市和社会政策，以发展她在城市教育项目实施方面的专业知识。她还打算利用在哈佛的时间了解为盲人和聋哑人学习者服务的机构的历史，以便她即将发表的关于英国教育系统中的黑人盲人妇女和女孩的博士论文。

伊莎贝拉-莫塞尔曼斯, 27岁
哈佛法学院法学硕士

伊莎贝拉是一名人权律师，专攻移民和庇护法。2018年，她共同创立了Here for Good，这是一个法律慈善机构，旨在为英国脱欧后有需要的欧洲国民及其家庭成员提供免费移民咨询。她在Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP接受培训，并一直是Safe Passage的律师，该慈善机构主要协助无人陪伴的寻求庇护的儿童与他们在英国的家人团聚。她是Restless Development的受托人，这是一个由青年领导的国际发展机构。

伊莎贝拉在2020年福布斯欧洲社会创业30强名单上。她拥有伦敦政治经济学院的政府学学士学位，以及BPP法学院的法学研究生文凭和法律实践硕士学位。她因担任大赦国际协会主席和外部非政府组织工作而被提名为2015年伦敦经济学院20位最有灵感的女性之一。

伊莎贝拉对法律的变革力量特别感兴趣。在哈佛，她计划学习宪法、国际人权法和社会变革方面的一系列课程。她打算利用法律使我们的社会变得更加富有同情心、更加公正和公平。

克里蒂-拉维博士, 26岁
哈佛T.H. Chan公共卫生学院公共卫生硕士

克里蒂是一名在国家医疗服务系统工作的初级学者医生。她对怀孕和儿童早期健康差异的跨代转移机制感兴趣。她将在哈佛大学陈氏学院攻读公共卫生硕士。克里蒂在牛津大学完成了她的医学科学学士学位（一级荣誉）和她的医学学位，在那里她获得了几个奖项和奖学金。在大学期间，她参与了一些全球和地方的健康平等倡议，包括牛津难民健康倡议、牛津全球健康小组和牛津全球外科小组。作为一名医生，她继续追求这些兴趣，目前正在进行一个项目，研究社会经济地位对早产婴儿成长的影响。克里蒂希望她在哈佛大学陈氏学院的学习将使她能够把宣传和研究结合起来，有意义地解决健康方面的差异。

艾拉-威廉姆斯，25岁
哈佛大学艺术与科学研究生院特别学生

埃拉在圣安德鲁斯大学获得法语和阿拉伯语硕士学位，并在牛津大学获得现代中东研究硕士学位，她的论文是关于摩洛哥针对妇女的性暴力。在此之后，她搬到了阿特拉斯山脉，为一家女童教育慈善机构做志愿者。她的学术兴趣包括国际发展、教育、社会变革和性别平等，重点是北非。她目前正在牛津大学马格达伦学院攻读博士学位，她的研究旨在通过对允许摩洛哥偏远村庄的女孩接受中等教育的寄宿学校的案例研究，探索中等教育和女孩赋权之间的关系。她对探索其他赋权途径和挑战关于女孩赋权的传统论述特别感兴趣。在哈佛，她计划学习教育政策、社会变革和人种学方面的课程，以弥补她以前的学习和博士研究领域之间的差距。她还希望努力掌握流利的阿拉伯语，并参加哈佛大学肯尼迪学院的妇女和公共政策课程。