Ketura Brown '04 has been selected as a 2009 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow following a highly competitive nationwide contest. The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University, supports extraordinary individuals who want to pursue careers in the U.S. Foreign Service.
Brown will use her fellowship to attend the Fletcher School of Tufts University with a focus on security studies, conflict management and humanitarian affairs. She will join the U.S. Foreign Service upon graduation and hopes to contribute her unique perspective and experiences to advance the interests of the United States and the global community.
Rangel Program Manager Patricia Scroggs commented, "I have no doubt that Ketura's educational experiences at Hamilton College helped prepare her to excel in a highly competitive selection process. The Rangel Program is thrilled to have Ketura as a Rangel Fellow, and I know she will represent the United States in the most positive light as a U.S. diplomat."
The Rangel Fellowship will provide Brown with more than $80,000 in benefits over a two-year period, including assistance for a two-year master's degree in international affairs. Through the program, she will work on international affairs for a U.S. Member of Congress during summer 2009. In summer 2010, the Department of State will send Brown overseas to work in a U.S. Embassy to get hands-on experience with U.S. foreign policy, conditions in a specific country, and the work of the Foreign Service.
Brown, who was raised in Harlem, N. Y., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, earned a double major in government and Africana studies from Hamilton. She wrote her honors government thesis on The Political, Economic and Social Experiences of Haitians and Haitian Americans in the United States. While at Hamilton, she did internships for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and the U.S. Congress. She received various awards, including the Swanson Award, the Grant Keehn Prize for Leadership, and the Most Distinguished Woman of Color.
After graduation from Hamilton, she studied peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa, with a focus on the war in Northern Uganda, the conflict in Eastern Congo and the Rwandan genocide. Brown then began work for the Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program on Africa and later joined the Center's Democracy program, working on Guyana and subsequently Ethiopia. Her international experience includes extensive travel in the Caribbean, as well as to Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Brazil.
The Foreign Service is a corps of working professionals who support the President of the United States and the Secretary of State to advance American foreign policy goals. Foreign Service personnel are "front-line" personnel who can be sent anywhere in the world, at any time, in service to the diplomatic needs of the United States. A career in the Foreign Service requires unusual commitment, uncommon motivation, and the ability to endure possible hardship while advancing and defending U.S. interests.
Brown will use her fellowship to attend the Fletcher School of Tufts University with a focus on security studies, conflict management and humanitarian affairs. She will join the U.S. Foreign Service upon graduation and hopes to contribute her unique perspective and experiences to advance the interests of the United States and the global community.
Rangel Program Manager Patricia Scroggs commented, "I have no doubt that Ketura's educational experiences at Hamilton College helped prepare her to excel in a highly competitive selection process. The Rangel Program is thrilled to have Ketura as a Rangel Fellow, and I know she will represent the United States in the most positive light as a U.S. diplomat."
The Rangel Fellowship will provide Brown with more than $80,000 in benefits over a two-year period, including assistance for a two-year master's degree in international affairs. Through the program, she will work on international affairs for a U.S. Member of Congress during summer 2009. In summer 2010, the Department of State will send Brown overseas to work in a U.S. Embassy to get hands-on experience with U.S. foreign policy, conditions in a specific country, and the work of the Foreign Service.
Brown, who was raised in Harlem, N. Y., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, earned a double major in government and Africana studies from Hamilton. She wrote her honors government thesis on The Political, Economic and Social Experiences of Haitians and Haitian Americans in the United States. While at Hamilton, she did internships for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and the U.S. Congress. She received various awards, including the Swanson Award, the Grant Keehn Prize for Leadership, and the Most Distinguished Woman of Color.
After graduation from Hamilton, she studied peace and conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa, with a focus on the war in Northern Uganda, the conflict in Eastern Congo and the Rwandan genocide. Brown then began work for the Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program on Africa and later joined the Center's Democracy program, working on Guyana and subsequently Ethiopia. Her international experience includes extensive travel in the Caribbean, as well as to Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Brazil.
The Foreign Service is a corps of working professionals who support the President of the United States and the Secretary of State to advance American foreign policy goals. Foreign Service personnel are "front-line" personnel who can be sent anywhere in the world, at any time, in service to the diplomatic needs of the United States. A career in the Foreign Service requires unusual commitment, uncommon motivation, and the ability to endure possible hardship while advancing and defending U.S. interests.
