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Bonderman Graduate Travel Fellowship

Bonderman Graduate Travel Fellowships are intended to provide an intensive solo travel experience to expand personal horizons. The fellowship is  not  for research projects, formal study at a foreign university, or internships abroad.

DEADLINE: Wednesday , March 29, 2023, noon (PST)

Eligibility.

• Must be a University of Washington graduate student, or graduate business, law or other professional student
• Must be registered in course credits in a degree program during winter quarter 2023 (being on leave is not considered enrolled)
• Must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident

For undergraduate eligibility, please see the  Bonderman Fellowship website .

Application process

To view information about the application process and access the application, please visit the  Bonderman Fellowship website .

Information sessions will be held; dates, times, and locations can be found on the  Bonderman Fellowship website .

For questions not answered at a session, you may email  [email protected] .

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Bonderman Travel Fellowship Open for Applications

Where would you go if you had eight months and $23,000 to travel solo? Which two continents and six countries would you visit? 

Embark on the adventure of a lifetime with a  Bonderman Fellowship . The 2021  application  is  due on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm (noon). 

Each year a select group of UW students are provided a rare opportunity to independently travel the world as Bonderman Fellows. David Bonderman, a UW alumnus, created the Bonderman Fellowship in 1995, which has funded life-changing global journeys for more than 280 students.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers University of Washington graduate, professional, and undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and travel abroad. Administered by the University Honors Program and the Graduate School, Bonderman Fellowships enable students to undertake independent international travel to explore, be open to the unexpected, and come to know the world in new ways. Fellows may not participate in a program or organization, engage in formal study at a foreign university, conduct research or other academic projects, or travel with an organized group. Bonderman Fellowships are intended to introduce students to cultures, peoples, and areas of the world with which they are not familiar.

More information, including  eligibility requirements  and information session details can be found at  bonderman.uw.edu .

The last information session will be  Wednesday, 1/6/21, 4:00-5:00 pm – register here . 

The last Q&A session will be  Thursday, 1/7/21, 12:15-12:45pm – sign in here  

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Wandering and wondering

A handful of UW students are selected as Bonderman Fellows every year. For eight months, they get to travel the world for an experience that’s eye-opening, unstructured and transformative.

UW graduate Sheri Imsdahl traveled throughout Africa and South America.

Where would you go if you had funding for an international trip lasting at least eight months?

How would you begin if you had limited travel experience but needed to visit at least six countries in two or more non-westernized regions?

What would you do if you couldn’t participate in any formal studies, programs or projects during your trip?

And what if you had to do all this alone?

Each year, between 16 and 18 UW students embark on such a journey through the Bonderman Fellowship. For eight months or more, they roam the world for an open, unstructured experience where the only real requirements are self-reliance and self-discovery. During their intensely personal journeys, they discover their potential for independence — and emerge transformed.

Dashni Amin

B.a., law, societies & justice with college honors, ’15.

• Travel dates: Dec. 2015–Aug. 2016
• Hometown: Seattle, WA
• Countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, India, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey, Morocco

“I planned to travel for eight months and meet women who would challenge my ideas about identity, spirituality and how to serve my communities. I also planned to challenge the way I moved through the world — the ways I’ve been taught, the ways I’m used to — and instead embrace the way I’ve wanted to own space but have not felt ‘enough’ to.

In Konya, Turkey, Amin visited the tomb of 13th-century mystic and poet Rumi. “I was in dhikr ,” she says, “the same joy for love that caused Rumi to toss his head back and twirl in the middle of a bazaar for the first time.”

“I met incredible women who taught me so much. In Jakarta, I met [women’s rights activist] Dr. Siti Musdah Mulia, whose words I don’t remember well because I was so excited to sit in her presence. In Kuala Lumpur, I met the women behind Sisters in Islam and Musawah, who eagerly took my offering of chocolates and broke it open to eat with me right away — they were preparing for a court case to challenge a fatwa issued against them and needed the energy. In Amman, I met with a powerlifter who used to run a Muslimahs’ reading group. We were supposed to meet for a half-hour after Iftar [evening meal during Ramadan] but didn’t leave until midnight because we were sharing vulnerabilities and life stories over Turkish coffees.

In Wadi Rum, Jordan, Amin spent her days cooking zarb — Bedouin barbecue — as well as driving in the dunes, climbing boulders and stargazing.

“Before this trip, I had a goal-driven existence that, however unconsciously, made my self-worth conditional upon achievement. The unstructured nature of the fellowship gave me the opportunity to redefine worthiness. I had to be comfortable determining if I was taking advantage of this incredible gift on my own without any external validation. I started the — lifelong, probably — process of giving up harsh judgments and strict expectations for a more accepting, embracing attitude.

“The Bonderman Fellowship was as much struggle as triumph. We aren’t just out there surfing and home-staying; we’re voluntarily putting ourselves in the way of growing pains. We’re reimagining the way we think about the world, what a life means and who we are. Having one ontology and then being confronted with so many incredibly different takes makes for a lot of humility.

“This trip has been the best part of my life. I hope Mr. Bonderman and the other people who made this experience so wonderful might get a glimpse at the depth of their impact and my gratitude. For a refugee kid whose movement around the world was motivated by force and fear, to embark on a bold adventure back around it as a learner — what a gift!”

A jet-lagged Amin woke up early enough to catch the sunrise on the island of Penang in Malaysia. As she took in the moment, she watched two girls head off to a nearby school after kissing their mother goodbye.

Amin visited Swayambhunath, a Buddhist temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, for a moment of respite before going to work on Her Farm, which hosts women in need of a safe place.

The Qutb complex in Delhi, India, contains minaret relics and an active masjid , or mosque. “I took this photo in the shady courtyard, hoping to remember the rest and welcome of the moment without invading the privacy of the space,” Amin says.

On Amin’s first day in Rabat, Morocco, she wandered the Medina and took in the colors — and the loud negotiating.

B.F.A., Photomedia with Honors, ’15

• Travel dates: Dec. 2015–Sept. 2016
• Hometown: Everett, WA
• Countries: Peru, Chile, Argentina, Japan, South Korea, China, Nepal, India, Greece  

The ancient city of Haridwar, India, on the Ganges River. Bell visited during the Maha Shivaratri festival.

“I grew up in Everett. Just from a lack of resources and a lack of access, I had a pretty limited understanding of how things go in the world. Going to the UW was good for me because it broadened my scope — that’s when I started getting involved in community organizing and organization, and furthering my involvement in the arts. And then, from my travels after that, my worldview has inverted itself.

“My goal was to go to the farthest, most remote point in every country I visited. When I was in Japan, I went to the northern tip. When I was in Argentina, I went to Ushuaia. When I was in China, I wanted to follow the Silk Road as far west as I could, and I made it to Kashgar.

“Environment — landscape, social, economic, political — drastically shapes people. Through understanding this, I’ve realized that a lot of things about myself that I held as individuality are in fact products of my environment.

“Patience and observation are more important than learning the language, but it’s better if you have all three. I’m a lot better at listening to people now and not having to say something back.

“There’s no such thing as ‘normal’ in an objective sense. When I returned to Seattle after my travels, and I felt the shock of seeing the United States with perhaps a more critical eye, it changed me. I used to think, ‘That’s just how things are.’ Now I think, ‘That’s just how things are around here .’ I would like to get myself into a position where I can host travelers on a frequent basis. While travel is the best way to challenge your worldview, it isn’t the only way.

“David Bonderman put everything else in my life on hold, and, with a smirk, said, ‘Here’s eight months of travel — go figure it out.’ That’s how I perceive it, anyway.

“Living through this experience is a totally different thing than reading about it or having someone tell you about it. There’s really no comparison.”

No man’s land between Peru and Chile, as captured by Bell during the first overland crossing of his travels.

A friendly perro rolled at Bell’s feet in Santiago, Chile.

After visiting Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city, Bell endured hours of blustery Tierra del Fuego winds as he waited for a ferry to the mainland. “Once on the water, we were escorted by a group of dolphins,” he remembers.

Bell hitchhiked to Wakkanai, the northernmost city in Japan. “My ultimate goal in most places I traveled was to start in one extreme of the country and move to the opposite extreme — and see how the culture shifted as I went along.”

Bell explored the austere landscape of western China with friends he met during his travels.

Sheri Imsdahl

M.s., mechanical engineering, ’09 ph.d., mechanical engineering, ’15.

• Travel dates: June 2016–March 2017
• Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
• Countries: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil

One of Ethiopia’s most famous churches, Abuna Yemata Guh, is said to have been carved into the cliff face in the fifth century. The final ascent requires the use of hand- and footholds worn into the rock over centuries.

“I went directly from undergraduate to graduate school. The fellowship felt like a big way to break out of the university bubble that I had been in for so long. I was really excited to do something that would feel so different.

“This was an amazing gift and opportunity, but I think anybody who travels or steps away from their real life for a period of time knows that there’s also a component of sacrifice that goes along with it. That is, not being around family and friends or missing big moments or events in their lives; putting your own personal and professional goals on the backburner to be away.

“This trip has made me much more comfortable with the idea of change. As my trip has progressed, I’ve noticed that my emotions aren’t tied as strongly to my exact set of circumstances as they used to be. And now, whenever I’m placed in foreign, unexpected or sometimes uncomfortable situations, it’s easier to adjust and start thriving in my new environment.

“The first time I realized I was getting more comfortable with change was when I was in Kigali, Rwanda, about seven weeks into my trip. It was the first time that I’ve felt a sense of home in a place other than Seattle or Minnesota. And this was striking to me because of how different Kigali is from both of those places. This shift in my adaptability has given me a sense of peace as I look ahead at my post-travel life.

“This trip gave me a lot more practice on appreciating the small things. In Malawi, my bus broke down and I had to make two unexpected transfers. It ended up taking 12 hours to go 200 miles, but despite how exasperating the day was, my clearest memory is the man I met midway through who kept me company and helped me make those transfers. He even called a taxi for me when we finally got to Lilongwe, because we arrived after dark and he wanted to make sure I got to my hostel safely. That day was great practice in focusing on the positive over the negative, an important skill I developed throughout my trip.

“Words seem wholly inadequate to express the depth of my gratitude and explain how I’ve been changed by this experience. I’ve met people who’ve challenged my ways of thinking and being. I’ve been placed in situations that stretched the limits of my patience and empathy. And through it all, I’ve gained a renewed confidence in my strengths and abilities.”

At a bustling market in Kampala, Uganda.

“Markets always seem to hold the heartbeat of a city,” says Imsdahl, who visited as many as she could. She snapped this photo at a fish market on the shore of Kenya’s Lake Naivasha.

Imsdahl made the trip to South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, on the tip of the southernmost region of the African continent.

Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier, one of the most memorable excursions from the six weeks Imsdahl spent in Patagonia, is roughly three miles wide, with an average height of 240 feet above the water.

A highlight of Imsdahl’s visit to Brazil: the opportunity to try new fruits and vegetables. She took this photo at a market in Rio de Janeiro.

Behind the Bonderman Fellowship

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1966, David Bonderman (who earned his bachelor’s from the UW in 1963) received a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, enabling him to tour the world for a year. The experience had a profound impact on him, and he wanted future generations of students to enjoy the same opportunity.

Since Bonderman established his travel fellowship in 1995, 254 UW students have been selected as recipients. Thanks to his recent commitment of a substantial endowment to keep funding the fellowship, UW students will continue to have their lives — and perspectives — altered for decades to come.

The 2017 Bonderman Fellows were recently selected. Learn more about who they are and where their journeys will take them.

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Each year a select group of UW students are provided a rare opportunity to independently travel the world as Bonderman Fellows. David Bonderman, a UW alumnus, created the Bonderman Fellowship in 1995, which has funded life-changing global journeys for more than 280 students.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers University of Washington graduate, professional, and undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and travel abroad. Administered by the University Honors Program and the Graduate School, Bonderman Fellowships enable students to undertake independent international travel to explore, be open to the unexpected, and come to know the world in new ways. Fellows may not participate in a program or organization, engage in formal study at a foreign university, conduct research or other academic projects, or travel with an organized group. Bonderman Fellowships are intended to introduce students to cultures, peoples, and areas of the world with which they are not familiar.

For more than twenty years UW alumnus David Bonderman has supported UW students via travel fellowships that ask them to explore, challenge themselves, and see the globe through a different lens. Bonderman, who earned his undergraduate degree in Russian from the University of Washington in 1963, received a Sheldon Fellowship after graduating from Harvard Law School, which allowed him to travel internationally and had a profound impact on his life. In 2017 the University of Washington Bonderman Fellowship expanded its impact with a $10 million endowment from David Bonderman.

Get the most up-to-date information about this program, eligibility, application details at https://bonderman.uw.edu/

Eligibility

Please see https://bonderman.uw.edu/ for details.

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University Honors Program

University of Washington, Seattle

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Award Details

Number of Awards: up to 8 graduate and 8 undergraduate awards

Award Amount: $23,000

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Bonderman Fellowships enable students to undertake independent international travel to explore, be open to the unexpected, and come to know the world in new ways. An applicant need not have a travel theme or project but should demonstrate initiative, commitment, passion, honesty, and creativity.  Travel plans should be personal and not about academic research.

 Because this journey is intended to foster independence, fellows may not:

• participate in a program or organization;
• engage in formal study at a university;
• conduct research or other academic projects; or
• travel with an organized group while carrying out the obligations of the fellowship.

Additionally, these fellowships should introduce students to cultures, peoples, and areas of the world with which they are not familiar, therefore:

• travel to highly westernized/developed areas (including Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) is not competitive;
• family heritage trips are not competitive;
• preference is given to candidates without extensive international travel experience.

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Announcing the 2024 Bonderman Travel Fellowship Competition

We're excited to announce that the 2023-24 Bonderman Fellowship  application will open Monday, November 20, 2023! We'll be holding information sessions in the coming months and would greatly appreciate it if you would share the announcement below with graduate and professional students at UW. Note that undergraduate students are not eligible to apply this year.

Please note that the deadline is 12 p.m. ( noon ) January 16, 2024 . Students interested in the Bonderman Fellowship should carefully review the website   for guidelines and tips, and also plan to attend one of the scheduled information sessions.

Michelle & Robyn

The Bonderman Fellowship Team

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Where would you go if you had eight months to travel solo? Which two regions and six to nine countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky University of Washington students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a Bonderman Fellowship. The 2023-24 application is opening on Monday, November 20 and you may be eligible to apply for this $26,000 fellowship that supports independent exploration and travel abroad.

Bonderman Fellows undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six to nine countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel fellows focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it. Each fellowship carries a $26,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Applications are due by 12 p.m. ( noon ) on Monday, January 16, 2024 . 

View the schedule and register for an information session >

More information and the application can be found at bonderman.uw.edu ; please review the eligibility requirements below to see if you may apply.

Eligibility:

In 2023-24, the Bonderman Fellowship will offer University of Washington graduate and professional students from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses an opportunity to engage in independent international travel. Applicants must:

• Be enrolled in a University of Washington graduate or professional degree program the quarter the application is due (Winter Quarter 2024). O n leave status is not considered “enrolled”. Professional students include those in Law (JD), Medicine (MD), Dentistry (DDS), and Pharmacy (PharmD) degree programs.
• Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• Be in good academic, conduct and disciplinary standing during the quarter the application is due (Winter Quarter 2024).
• If awarded, good academic, disciplinary and conduct standing is a prerequisite of receiving the fellowship.

Please note:  Undergraduate students are not eligible to apply this year. Please see our website FAQs  for more information on this decision.

To learn more about this extraordinary opportunity, please review the Applying   and FAQ   sections of the website.

Best regards,

The Bonderman Team

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Where would you go if you had eight months to travel solo? Which two regions and six to nine countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky University of Washington students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a Bonderman Fellowship.  The 2023-24 application is opening on Monday, November 20 and you may be eligible to apply for this $26,000 fellowship that supports independent exploration and travel abroad.

Bonderman Fellows undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six to nine countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel fellows focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it. Each fellowship carries a $26,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Applications are due by  12 p.m. ( noon ) on Monday, January 16, 2024 .

View the schedule and register for an information session >

More information and the application can be found at  bonderman.uw.edu ; please review the eligibility requirements below to see if you may apply.

Eligibility:

In 2023-24, the Bonderman Fellowship will offer University of Washington graduate and professional students from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses an opportunity to engage in independent international travel. Applicants must:

• Be enrolled in a University of Washington graduate or professional degree program the quarter the application is due (Winter Quarter 2024). O n leave status is not considered “enrolled”. Professional students include those in Law (JD), Medicine (MD), Dentistry (DDS), and Pharmacy (PharmD) degree programs.
• Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• Be in good academic, conduct and disciplinary standing during the quarter the application is due (Winter Quarter 2024).
• If awarded, good academic, disciplinary and conduct standing is a prerequisite of receiving the fellowship.

Please note:  Undergraduate students are not eligible to apply this year. Please see our  website FAQs  for more information on this decision.

To learn more about this extraordinary opportunity, please review the  Applying  and  FAQ  sections of the website.

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The Bonderman Travel Fellowships are created through a generous gift from David Bonderman, who earned his undergraduate degree in Russian from the University of Washington in 1963. The Bonderman Travel Fellowship program offers graduate students (including those in the Law and Business schools) and undergraduate students in the University Honors Program an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and travel abroad.  The Fellowship enables recipients to extend their experiences and expand their cultural horizons by exploring different parts of the world. 

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The  Graduate School Office of Fellowships and Assistantships  also maintains information on university and nationwide graduate fellowships, as well as resources for finding outside funding sources. They also maintain a Hot List of links to funding information and resources for graduate students.

Student Travel Awards

Graduate student travel awards are offered by the Graduate School and are available to assist graduate students with travel fares to conferences or other professional meetings to present a paper or serve as an invited speaker. Funds may be used for airfare or fares supporting alternative modes of transportation. Individual awards are limited to one per fiscal year. Priority will be given to Ph.D. and research Master's students. Maximum award amounts are:

• $300 domestic
• $500 international

A restricted amount of funding is available each fiscal quarter to support graduate student travel within the quarter. Funding will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis with adjustments to maintain equity in the process.  

Application Procedures

Recommendations for awards must be made to the Chair by a MELC faculty member. Requests may be submitted at any time for any date during the fiscal year but must include the student's name, student ID number, date, and purpose of travel.  Approved applications will then be submitted to the Graduate School for approval and award.

Graduate School Supplemental Fellowships

Some supplemental fellowships are available through the Graduate School for incoming graduate students who are recipients of prestigious fellowships (e.g., the Mellon Fellowship). Contact the Graduate School directly for information.

Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund for Graduate Students

Dolores Liebmann supported students and charitable organizations in her lifetime and created a fund to continue support after her death. The " Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund " supports graduate students who show "outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study." The University of Washington is one of the institutions selected to submit three nominees for this national fellowship.

Fritz Undergraduate Scholarship for Study Abroad

Supports international study or research by UW undergraduate students in the social sciences and humanities. Visit the Fritz Scholarship page for more information.

Fritz/Boeing Graduate Fellowships for International Research and Study

These one-quarter grants provide support to UW graduate students doing international research or study. Visit the International Research and Study fellowship page for more information.

Global Opportunities Scholarship

The Global Opportunities Scholarships for Study Abroad increases the access to international learning opportunities for Washington state resident students with significant financial need. Applications are reviewed and funds are awarded each quarter.

Graduate Student Equity & Excellence (GSEE)

Graduate Student Equity & Excellence (GSEE) , a division of The Graduate School, works to promote greater access to advanced studies for students of color and traditionally underrepresented groups. GSEE exists to maintain a diverse graduate student community and to enhance the quality of the graduate experience for all students. GSEE provides leadership in recruitment and retention of ethnic minority and underrepresented students.

Graduate and Professional Student Senate Travel Grants

Any graduate or professional student attending the University of Washington Seattle campus is eligible to apply for up to $250 in travel grants. The funds can be used for traveling to an academic or professional conference that relates to a student's area of study and will enhance professional development. Applications are considered every three months.

Husky Promise

The University of Washington has a long history of providing access to all citizens of the State of Washington regardless of their economic means. The University is committed to ensuring that low and lower middle-income students can afford to choose the UW.

To ensure the UW remains affordable, the  Husky Promise  guarantees that full tuition will be covered by grant or scholarship support if you are a low- or lower middle-income student and a Washington resident. These grants and scholarships do not have to be repaid. If you qualify for the Husky Promise you can be assured that if tuition increases, the University of Washington has you covered!

Jackson School of International Studies

The Jackson School offers a number of Fellowships and Teaching Assistantships to graduate students from all areas. Many of our graduate students have been successful in obtaining Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships from the Jackson School.

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships  (FLAS) 

Fellowships for U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are students of  Persian. Please note: The application required for this fellowship must be obtained from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Student Services Office, Box 353650, 303 Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-3650.

Office of Merit Scholarship Fellowships & Awards

The Office of Merit Scholarship Fellowships & Awards  provides the University of Washington undergraduates with information about local and national merit-based scholarships, fellowships, and grants, including the Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, and the Mary Gates Endowment. They help prepare UW students to compete for nationally competitive, merit-based scholarships, and awards. They also publicize major opportunities, select the university's nominees, and provide intensive advising to candidates.

Office of Student Financial Aid

The Office of Student Financial Aid provides students with both financial aid and a number of need-based and academic scholarships. Please keep in mind their  January 15 Priority Filing Deadline  for the following academic year.

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Travel the world with the Graduate Bonderman Fellowship – apply by 3/29

February 2, 2023

Where would you go if you had five to eight months to travel solo? Which two regions and four to eight countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky UW students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a $23,000  Bonderman Fellowship . In 2023 we will accept applications from UW graduate and professional students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who are enrolled in the spring quarter of 2023 . (Undergraduates are not eligible to apply in 2023. See  here  for more info on that decision). 

Applications are DUE on March 29, 2023 by 12 pm (noon) PDT.

The 2023 application is now open in MyGrad at the ‘Request an Award’ link. 

More information may be found at  bonderman.uw.edu

INFO SESSIONS:

Wednesday, February 15, 4-5 pm, at https://washington.zoom.us/j/92362357030

Tuesday, March 14, 5-6 pm, at  https://washington.zoom.us/j/91343856772

Q&A drop-in: Tuesdays, March 07, 14, 28, 5-5:30pm, https://washington.zoom.us/j/97351835741  

Questions?  Contact us at  [email protected]  

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The Office of Fellowships and Awards, The Graduate School

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News & events, msw graduate receives bonderman travel fellowship.

Katt Purington (MSW ’23, BASW ’22) was one of eight University of Washington students to receive the prestigious 2023 Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Purington graduated from the School of Social Work’s MSW program in spring 2023. 

Each member of the 2023 Bonderman cohort receives $23,000 to independently explore world regions for up to eight months. The broad vision of the program is to inspire individual transformation by expanding the fellows’ understanding of themselves and of the complex and interconnected world in which we live. 

Purington, who counts both Newport News, Va., and Seattle, Wash., as their hometown, has chosen to explore Japan, The Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Laos and Cambodia as part of their fellowship. “I want to look for people like me who want to celebrate their strength, pride and tenacity as a queer person,” Purington said. “People like me who have formed their own countercultures through their need to have human connection in a sometimes unkind world.” 

Administered by the University Honors Program and the Graduate School, the Bonderman program is made possible by alumnus David Bonderman, who has sponsored these life-changing journeys for nearly 30 years. In 2017, Bonderman reiterated his commitment to the program by providing a new $10 million endowment. Since 1995, 280 students have been named Bonderman fellows. 

In 2023, the Bonderman selection process was limited to graduate and professional students. The awards committee looked for applicants who demonstrated self-knowledge, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills and interests, resilience and fortitude. 

While traveling, Bonderman fellows may not participate in a program or organization, study at a foreign university, conduct research or travel with an organized group. Rather, the purpose is to introduce students to cultures, peoples and areas of the world with which they are unfamiliar.

• 30 Exceptional UW Students Receive Global Travel Fellowships

The Department of Global Health awarded 30 international travel fellowships this spring to support the projects and research of graduate and professional students and medical residents at UW for the next academic year. Students from varied disciplines across the University, including global health, social work, psychology, and pharmacy, will travel to 16 countries pursuing fieldwork experience. Projects range from implementing a harm-reduction program in Vietnam to developing evaluation tools for emergency medical and trauma response systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

Administered by the Global Health Resource Center, the Department's five travel fellowships are funded through the generous donations of private individuals and organizations, as well as support from the Department of Global Health. Learn more about the Global Health Resource Center's fellowships for fieldwork here . 

• Warren George Povey Endowed Fund for Global Health Students
• Global Opportunities (GO) Health Fellowship
• Strengthening Care Opportunities Through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE) Fellowship
• Stergachis Endowed Fellowship for International Exchange
• ​ Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellowship

WARREN GEORGE POVEY ENDOWED FUND FOR GLOBAL HEALTH STUDENTS

Joyce Maria Nimocks, MSWc, School of Social Work | Ghana Project: Promoting Women's Health Through Ancestral Knowledge & Community Dialogue

Joyce Maria is currently a Master's candidate at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She was born and raised in Chicago and her ancestors are from West Africa. Joyce Maria's project is to be in conversation with Ghanaian women in the city of Accra about common hair-relaxing and skin-lightening practices. Her project will focus on the public health aspect of this work by researching common, toxic commercial cosmetic products in the greater Accra region, creating and making accessible public literature on how these products can be detrimental to consumers’ health, especially concerning women and their reproductive health. She will hold discussions on traditional beautification practices of West Africa, and create a public database of non-toxic beauty remedies for women all over the world to access, as well as an online platform for women to exchange information about traditional non-toxic beautification recipes that can easily be made at home. This project not only proposes public health solutions for an often overlooked sphere of public health in Ghana, but also for Black women here in the United States.

GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES (GO) HEALTH FELLOWSHIP

Yilin Chen, MPHc - Global Health, School of Public Health | Kenya Project: EHealth Project in Kenya

Yilin is a first year MPH student in Global Health at the University of Washington. She is an international student from China. Yilin is going to Kenya with the GO Health Fellowship to help with evaluating an eHealth pilot project. The proposed project fits within a larger project aiming to scale up hospital management information system and telemedicine services in Kenya, to improve access to health care services in both rural and urban regions of Kenya. The project is being led by Peking University Institute for Global Health (IGH), Huawei Technologies, and MicroClinics Technologies, and will be carried out in close partnership with the Kenyan Ministries of Health and Information, Communications and Technology, and the County Government of Lamu.

Rubee Dev, MPH, PhDc, School of Nursing | Kenya Project: Pilot Testing and Refining a Family Planning Decision-Aid

Rubee is a second year PhD student in the School of Nursing. She hails from Biratnagar, Nepal and first came to UW as a Fulbright and P.E.O. International Peace Scholar in 2012. She graduated with a Maternal and Child Health MPH as well as a Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Woman, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) from the UW in 2014. Her area of research interest is sexual and reproductive health of adolescents, mainly related to family planning (FP). Her long-term career goal is to develop, implement, and disseminate interventions aimed at reducing the unintended pregnancy rates among adolescent girls and young women in resource-limited settings. Currently she is working on a project designed to support women’s voluntary FP choices by developing an intervention that engages postpartum women in the FP decision-making process, and with their providers, assists them in selecting the most appropriate FP method that is well-suited for their individual needs. For this, she has proposed to pilot test and refine a FP decision-aid among postpartum adolescent and adult women attending MCH clinics in Kenya. The GO Health Fellowship will help her gain skills and experiences by working on a project with a team of mentors with expertise in FP research. She will participate in this fellowship to travel to Kenya, with a goal of carrying out her project successfully and it will give her an opportunity to simultaneously advance her academic, research, and career goals.

Peder Digre,  MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health; MPAc – Evans School of Public Policy and Governance | Kenya Project: W orking with the Maasai at the Merrueshi Village Clinic in Kenya

Peder is a pursuing a Master of Public Health in Health Metrics and Evaluation from the Department of Global Health and a Master of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. In addition to being a full-time student Peder works for PATH — a nonprofit headquartered in Seattle — focusing on product development and organizational strategy. Peder is also active on campus serving as the Chair of the Activities Fee Committee and co-Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Students in the School of Public Health. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2013 with a BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and a BA in Scandinavian Studies.

With this fellowship, Peder hopes to learn about community-led approaches to providing health services in under-resourced settings. With this, he is interested in learning first-hand about issues around scalability and coverage and how the Merrueshi Village Clinic uses innovative approaches to serve the whole community. It is Peder’s goal to better understand health systems to gain skills and knowledge that will help him be a resource for others as they make decisions that are best for them and their communities.

Chantal Donahue, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Cote d’Ivoire Project: Adolescent Health in North-Central Cote d'Ivoire

Chantal is a first year MPH student in the Department of Global Health and a Global WACh Certificate candidate. She previously attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN, graduating with a BA in Psychology. Prior to attending UW, Chantal was a Community Health Development Agent with the Peace Corps in rural Burkina Faso, where she collaborated with local health care workers and community volunteers to implement numerous health education programs targeted at maternal, child, and adolescent health and empowerment.

Thanks to the GO Health Fellowship, Chantal will be spending six months in northern Côte d’Ivoire conducting a qualitative research study in collaboration with Health Alliance International. This study aims to understand the factors affecting adolescent access to and utilization of health services in order to implement evidence-based changes to current programs with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes of adolescents in this area.

Shiza Farid, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Kenya Project: Optimizing Repeat Maternal HIV Testing in Kenya

Shiza is a first-year MPH student in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington (UW). She is currently a research assistant for the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women Adolescents and Children (Global WACh), where she is supporting two research studies on optimizing repeat HIV testing for pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya. Through the support of the GO Health Fellowship, Shiza will continue to support the work of the two studies; she will undertake the primary data collection for the costing analysis for the studies, as well as conduct informant interviews with peer mother mentors to better understand the repeat HIV testing landscape in Kenya.

Shiza is also currently interning at PATH, supporting a researcher with data cleaning and analysis for multiple studies on the impact, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of Sayana Press implementation in Senegal and Uganda. Prior to starting her program at UW, Shiza was most recently at the United Nations Foundation as Manager for global policy for the Universal Access Project (UAP). Shiza led UAP’s global advocacy efforts to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights issues -- as agreed to in the UN Sustainable Development Goals -- are robustly integrated in U.S., global, and financing policies and priorities. In this role, she directly liaised with key UN partners, including UNFPA, led UAP’s youth engagement work, and supported press fellowships to the field. She also provided overall policy support to cross-cutting issues as needed. Shiza has her Bachelors of Arts in Economics and International Relations from American University in Washington, D.C. 

Erica Grant, MPHc – Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health | Rwanda Project: Gorilla Conservation Employee Health Program

Erica is an OHHAI (Occupational Health at the Human-Animal Interface) scholar, pursuing an MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health. She currently works as a research assistant in the Center for One Health Research. Before coming to UW, Erica received her BSc at UCLA in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. Erica has previously worked on a range of projects including UCLA's "Parkinson's Environment and Genes" (PEG) study, IZW's "Wild Boars in Berlin" project, and fieldwork studies of plague disease ecology in prairie dogs, ground squirrels and other small mammals in SD and ID. Her research interests include wildlife disease ecology, animals as sentinels for disease, and emerging zoonotic diseases in a changing global environment.

Erica will travel to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda through the GO Health Fellowship, where she will be working with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (also known as Gorilla Doctors) to conduct an evaluation of their Employee Health Program (EHP). This program applies a One Health approach to conservation of gorillas, which have suffered considerable population losses in recent years due to Ebola, and face possible extinction due to health threats from diseases shared with humans and other activities like poaching and habitat encroachment. The health of both gorillas and local community members stands to benefit by ensuring workers have access to health care, particularly for endemic infectious diseases like malaria and TB.

Nikki Gurley, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health; MSWc , School of Social Work | Uganda Project: Midline Assessment of Advocacy for Better Health: An Intervention to Improve Health Services Through Civic Engagement in Uganda

Nikki is a concurrent Masters student with the Department of Global Health and the School of Social Work. Within the Department of Global Health, she is completing the Health Metrics and Evaluation concentration and is in her first-year of coursework. Nikki’s previous experience is with social policy research, with a focus on domestic higher education, and more recently as an intern with the M&E department at PATH. She’s looking forward to continuing her work with PATH in Uganda through the GO Health Fellowship, and gaining experience with data collection processes and program evaluation. 

Maahum Haider, MD – Urology; MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Kenya Project: W orking with the Maasai at the Merrueshi Village Clinic in Kenya

Maahum is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Urology residency, class of 2016 and is now a research fellow and Acting Instructor in the UW Urology Department, working part-time in the clinic at Northwest Hospital. She is also a full time student at UW, currently halfway through the Global Health MPH.

Maahum was born in California but grew up mostly in the Middle East, paying frequent trips to Pakistan to visit family. On those trips, she encountered extreme poverty and saw the effects of illiteracy and disenfranchisement on an entire generation of children less fortunate than herself. She decided to pursue this Master’s program because she is passionate about social justice and strongly supports the idea that we are all part of a global community. She wants to contribute what she can with her medical background in a responsible and sustainable way. She believes the best way to do that is by building a strong foundation based on a public health education and first-hand experience working in under-resourced settings. She hopes that this experience will put some of the lessons learned in school into real-world perspective and teach her the tools she will need to pursue international work in her future career.

Tim Kelly, Medical student – Global Health Pathway, School of Medicine | Vietnam Project: Providing Harm Reduction to Marginalized Populations in Can Tho, Vietnam

Tim is a medical student at the University of Washington and is wrapping up his first year in medical school. He is enrolled in the global health and under-served pathways and is the founder of an addiction medicine student interest group. Outside of school, Tim organizes around criminal justice reform and volunteers as a health care advocate. His background is in working with marginalized populations and improving access to evidence-based care. The focus of Tim’s summer project is to develop a culturally relevant, and sustainable, harm reduction intervention for at-risk, stigmatized populations in Vietnam. His goal this summer is to learn how health care works in a political, social, and cultural environment that is very different from his own. Tim also looks forward to learning about the everyday lives of marginalized populations in Vietnam, the struggles and barriers to care they encounter, and the innovative approaches that the Vietnamese people and government are taking to care for these populations.

Mary Kirk, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Namibia Project: Namibian Adolescent HIV Club Toolkit Analysis and Development

Mary Kirk is pursuing a Master’s in Public Health through the UW Department of Global Health. Prior to this, she served as an education volunteer with Peace Corps in Lesotho. She taught English, health and sexual education in a rural primary school for two years. Given the high prevalence rate of HIV in Lesotho, the bulk of her efforts outside her teaching work were geared toward youth HIV education and voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) efforts.

With the GO Health Fellowship, Mary will be furthering her work with youth and HIV by working with I-TECH and the Ministry of Health in Namibia to observe existing health facility-based adolescent HIV clubs. She will engage with club facilitators, adolescent club leaders, pediatric HIV specialists and Ministry of Health staff to determine HIV club best practices, and compile a toolkit to present to the Ministry of Health for them to use to implement these clubs in facilities across the country.  This work will serve as her thesis, and provide her with practical experience in the field she wants to pursue after completing this academic program.

Andrew George Lim, MD, MS, 2 nd year Emergency Medicine resident, School of Medicine | Switzerland Project: Designing a Qualitative Needs Assessment for the WHO Emergency Care Systems Framework

Andrew George Lim, MD, MS is a senior resident physician in emergency medicine at the University of Washington and Harborview Medical Centers. His research interests include the implementation of emergency care systems and critical care education in austere settings. With the 2017-2018 GO Health Fellowship, Andrew will be working with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Program at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He will be developing qualitative evaluation tools for the emergency care systems assessment (ECSA) framework, designed for low- and middle- income countries to adopt nationwide emergency medical and trauma response systems. He will be working with local representatives of health departments from several sub-Saharan African nations where the ECSA is being piloted.

Andrew has been involved with emergency medicine residency curriculum development in Tanzania, and interdisciplinary critical care curriculum development for ICU doctors and nurses in Cambodia. Previously, he has taught trauma management, public health and disease prevention for community health workers and backpack medics in eastern Myanmar’s conflict areas. He completed his MD at the University of California, San Francisco and his MS in Public Health Sciences at University of California Berkeley, and is an alumnus of Brown University.

Yuting Lin, MSN, PhDc – Nursing Science, School of Nursing | China Project: Parent Responses to Pain and Itching in Young Children with Burns

Yuting Lin is a PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of Washington. Prior to coming to the UW, she worked as a registered nurse in emergency department and CCU in Renji hospital in Shanghai, during which she also spent time teaching and doing research on patients with diabetes. She holds a MSN from the University of Washington and a BSN from Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. In this project, Yuting aims to examine how parents assess and respond to pain and itching in children with burn injury, the impact of parental feelings of guilt and the broad influence of the family unit on children’s symptom experience. Her current research interests with nursing involve symptom management in children with burn injury, family-centered care in pediatric oncology patients, and cross culture parenting behaviors.

Ryann Milne-Price, Medical student – Global Health Pathway, School of Medicine; MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Nepal Project: Provider Perspectives on Clandestine Abortion in Nepal

Ryann Milne-Price is a public health and medical student from Montana.  She is very excited to be going to Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal to partner with Biraj Karmacharya and the Department of Community Programs to conduct women’s health research in January 2018.  She is interested in rural health and community outreach so can’t wait to learn from the experts in Nepal!

David Roach, MD, Internal Medicine Residency, School of Medicine | Peru Project: Characterizing ESBL Bacteria in Lima, Peru: A First Step

David was born in Pasco, WA and grew up bouncing between southeastern Washington and southwestern Montana. He attended college in Helena, MT where he studied Biology and Spanish. After college he worked as a medical translator in the Dominican Republic before moving to Seattle, WA to work in the Department of Genome Sciences. He attended medical school at the University of Washington and did extensive laboratory research during this time including a year of dedicated work in bacterial genomics in Jay Shendure’s lab. He is currently in his Internal Medicine residency at the UW, and is planning to pursue a career in infectious disease with a focus on using genomic technologies to address the spread of bacterial disease on a global setting.  His GO Health project is a first step in this direction as he will perform genetic testing on clinical bacterial isolates taken from a hospital in Lima, Peru. The goal of the project is to ascertain which strains of E. coli and Klebsiella harbor multi-drug resistant antibiotic resistance genes in that region, which will inform epidemiologic efforts to track and intervene on antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Yiyu Tian, PhDc – Feminist Studies, College of Arts and Sciences | China Project: Menstruation Leave in China, Significance, Barriers and Possibilities

Yiyu Tian is a doctoral student in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. She received her MA in Chinese Area Studies from Aalborg University, Denmark. Her interest is in the issue of the body and reproductive justice of working-class women in SE China. Her work involves the study of performance, labor issues, and medical discourses and practices in China. Based on her activism with Chinese NGOs that support women workers, her current research focuses on the issue of the body in women workers’ drama performance in Shenzhen, China, especially regarding menstruation and their demands for menstruation leave.

In her activism, she noticed that women workers in China were demanding menstruation leave to be legalized. With the GO Health Fellowship, she will be in Shenzhen, China from August to September 2017. During this period, she will conduct participant observation at events that catalyze menstruation leave organized by labor NGOs; interview women workers on their attitudes of menstruation leave; and interview authoritative parties such as doctors, lawyers and officials in the local public health bureaus on their opinions towards this issue. The aim of her research is to understand why women workers in China demand menstruation leave, as well as to find possible solutions for this long-ignored reproductive health issue that is situated in the process of globalization.

Jennifer Velloza, MPH, PhDc – Epidemiology, School of Public Health | Kenya Project: Depression Screening Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples in Thika, Kenya

Jennifer Velloza is currently a second-year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology. After receiving her MPH from UNC-Chapel Hill, Jen spent several years working on HIV prevention and mental health research projects in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently a research assistant at the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC). Her dissertation research focuses on understanding the potential mechanisms by which psychosocial factors, including depression, influence HIV risk among women in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The GO Health Fellowship will enable Jen travel to Kenya to complete one of her dissertation aims with the Thika Partners in Health and Research Development team. She will conduct an ancillary study to determine the cultural acceptability and validity of a depressive symptom screening tool for pregnant and postpartum women. Jen will also have a unique opportunity to be mentored by a team of researchers, clinicians, and a clinical psychologist, who will provide valuable training for her global health research career.

STRENGTHENING CARE OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH PARTNERSHIP IN ETHIOPIA (SCOPE) FELLOWSHIP

Two students will collaborate on the same project in Ethiopia:  Improved Access and Uptake of Maternal and Child Health Services in Rural Ethiopia Through Collaborative Community and Health Systems Partnership

Sheldon Halsted, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Ethiopia

Sheldon graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University where she studied Psychology and Education. After graduating from Georgetown, Sheldon moved to South Africa where she worked for Grassroot Soccer, a non-profit that uses the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize communities to stop the spread of HIV. Sheldon was employed as a programs intern at their site in the township of Soweto.

When she returned to the U.S., Sheldon worked as a Fundraising Associate for a nonprofit organization that supports an all-girls boarding school in Kenya. She is currently a first year MPH student in the Department of Global Health at UW. Outside the classroom, she interns at I-TECH to support the Haiti team in their clinical mentoring evaluation to assess whether the program has contributed to improvements in quality of HIV/AIDS care.

Sheldon will complete her SCOPE Fellowship this upcoming summer and fall. She will be working with the University of Gondar study team to develop and implement tools for the PEER award. More specifically, she will be working on focus groups with pregnant women, male partners, and religious leaders. With a background in HIV/AIDS care and strong belief in the power of community based partnerships, Sheldon will utilize her skill set to strengthen communication and collaboration between the faith-based and medical communities.

Elizabeth Karman, BSN, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Ethiopia

Elizabeth Karman is an MPH candidate in the Department of Global Health. She previously attended the University of Washington School of Nursing and graduated with a BSN. After working for several years as an inpatient hospital nurse, Elizabeth served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Malawi, where she worked with her host community to develop adolescent health education interventions. Upon returning to the US, Elizabeth worked in the field of clinical research as the nurse manager of a non-profit clinical research center. Elizabeth’s research interests are centered on adolescent and maternal health education and access to care in low resource settings.

As a SCOPE fellow, Elizabeth will be in Gondar, Ethiopia from June-December 2017. She will be working with a team of Ethiopian researchers performing facility assessments and collecting baseline data, as part of a cluster-randomized trial of an intervention linking Ethiopian Orthodox Priests with community health care workers.

STERGACHIS ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

Reed Sorensen, PhDc – Global Health (Metrics), School of Public Health | Mozambique Project: HIV Patient Loss to Follow-up in Central Mozambique

Reed Sorensen is a doctoral student in Global Health and a research associate at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). His work focuses on using results from the Global Burden of Disease study to inform decisions about health policy and resource allocation. As an epidemiologist, much of his research involves characterizing the relationship between risk factors and disease outcomes in populations. For example, on the cost-effectiveness team at IHME, he develops methods for simulating the effect of lifestyle and medical interventions on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Similarly, with his dissertation, Reed aims to estimate the avoidable burden of disease by benchmarking countries’ risk factor levels against each other. His research often draws from other disciplines like econometrics and machine learning. As part of the Global Health PhD program, Reed has the opportunity to gain experience abroad. Working with Health Alliance International, he will spend three months in Mozambique developing a study on how HIV patients interact with the health system, in particular, estimating the rate of silent transfers between facilities. He will also provide support to local staff and teach a course on statistical programming. Reed has worked and traveled in Latin America, but this experience will be his first visit to Africa. He hopes to gain a new perspective on his role in the international development community and to learn more about how health systems function (or do not) in low-income countries.

THOMAS FRANCIS, JR. GLOBAL HEALTH FELLOWSHIP

Kristina Bajema, MSc – Epidemiology, School of Public Health | South Africa Project: Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Tuberculosis in HIV Positive Individuals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Kristina Bajema is an infectious disease fellow and Master’s student in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her research interests include understanding host factors that contribute to the progression of latent tuberculosis infection to active tuberculous disease, including the influence of non-communicable diseases. Through the Thomas Francis, Jr. Fellowship, she plans to study the association between diabetes and tuberculosis risk among HIV positive individuals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Rebecca Brander, PhD – Epidemiology, School of Public Health | Kenya Project: Characterization of Pediatric Hospitalizations Costs in West Kenya

Rebecca is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology, and will be traveling to Kenya with the Thomas Francis Jr. Fellowship. During her time at the University of Washington, she has been involved in epidemiologic research in Kenya as a research assistant, through study coordination and data management. She also has a background in global health clinical programs from organizing and operating mobile medical clinics in the Caribbean and South America. During her time in Kenya, she hopes to gain more experience in primary data collection and the logistics of conducting research in low resource settings. She also looks forward to gaining a deeper understanding of the culture and communities in which she works, and strengthening her collaborations with her team’s research partners in Kenya.

Caitlin Cassot, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health; MPAc, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance | Tanzania Project: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Ukombozi Curriculum

Caitlin is a first year student in the Department of Global Health and the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. She is a concurrent Master’s of Public Health and Master’s of Public Administration student. Caitlin received a BA from Bucknell University, where she studied Political Science and Psychology. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Guatemala, 2014-2016) who worked in health education in rural communities. Caitlin is traveling to Tanzania with this fellowship to assist with the implementation of a substance abuse, domestic violence, and HIV prevention program with Health Tanzania and Faith in Action. She hopes to use this fellowship to learn about program implementation and evaluation as well as the vibrant culture of Tanzania. Caitlin is very grateful for this opportunity.

Mason Chiang, PharmDc – School of Pharmacy | Cambodia Project: Hospital Pharmacy in Cambodia: How to Better Access Medicines

Mason was born and raised in New York City before moving to Seattle in 2015 to pursue his Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Washington. Currently finishing up his 2 nd year in the PharmD program, Mason is hoping to one day work with underserved communities and increase their access to medications and healthcare literacy. He believes that healthcare is a human right and is passionate about increasing access to quality care globally. As a recipient of the 2017 Thomas Francis Jr. Fellowship, Mason will be travelling to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to assist in health systems strengthening from a pharmacy perspective. He will be spending one month looking for ways to sustainably improve hospital pharmacy practice. Some of his goals include increasing workflow efficiency, encouraging more active clinical involvement of pharmacist on the healthcare team and improving patient access to medication. Mason believes in the power of interdisciplinary change, and will be relying heavily on mentors from the medical, social work, pharmacy and nursing fields to achieve his goals. This will be his first-time working overseas, and he is both excited and nervous about the challenges that await him.

Katherine Garcia-Rosales , MPHc – Epidemiology, School of Public Health | Peru Project: Evaluating HIV Care Transitions in Clinical Trial Participants

Katherine Garcia-Rosales is a first year MPH student in the UW Department of Epidemiology. Katherine graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Community Health in 2015 from the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is a current member of the Student Epidemic Action Leaders (SEAL) team and a tobacco studies scholar. Her research interest includes substance abuse and HIV research with a focus on global health. She is a graduate research assistant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and works under Dr. Ann Duerr in her project with HIV testing and treatment to prevent onward HIV transmission among high-risk men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru. As a recipient of the 2017 Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Program Fellowship, this summer she will be working in Lima, Peru to conduct a retrospective clinical and pharmaceutical chart review on patients who were transferred to the government TARGA (Tratamiento Antiretroviral de gran actividad) clinics during the gap of two parent studies, SABES and MERLIN. She is interested in understanding whether any problems arose, such as gaps in receiving ART (antiretroviral treatment), adverse events associated with change in ART regimens, or breaks in virologic suppression. Her long-term goals are to study emerging drug epidemics and HIV transmission and how it is disproportionately affecting different populations worldwide.

Jahn Jaramillo, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Thailand Project: Practicum with the World Health Organization

Jahn Jaramillo came to the University of Washington after spending three years in Thailand following a Fulbright ETA experience. As a graduate student in the Department of Global Health, he is excited to return to Thailand during the fall with the generous financial assistance from the Thomas Francis, Jr. Fellowship in order to carry out his practicum. There, he will intern at the World Health Organization Country Office to conduct research under the supervision of a world-renowned regional expert on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and mental health. Before his internship, he will be studying Thai at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He hopes to strengthen existing relationships, and contribute towards health initiatives that support vulnerable populations.

Michael A. Light, MSW, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health | Cambodia Project: Expanding Medical Social Work Practice in Cambodia

Michael received a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of Washington (UW) in 2013 with a graduate certificate from the Department of Global Health. In 2012, Mr. Light received the GO Health Fellowship to support his work with a team of students under UW Professor, Dr. Tracy Harachi, in collaboration with partners from the Department of Social Work at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. The team conducted operations research which resulted in the development of Cambodia’s first medical social work department at a government-funded hospital. Mr. Light returned to the Department of Global Health in 2015 to complete a Master of Public Health degree and to continue his work with Dr. Harachi. The Thomas Francis Jr. Fellowship will enable him to return to Cambodia to complete a mix-methods evaluation of this novel social work program and to support efforts to expand services within Calmette and to other health care settings. Since completing his MSW, Mr. Light has also been gaining clinical experience as a Medical Social Worker in multiple roles at Harborview Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital with a focus in emergency and palliative care. He is committed to integrating the principles of public health and the values of social work in the delivery of patient care, in the development and evaluation of programs and services, in the provision of clinical education, and through research in the health sciences.

Shadae Paul, MPHc – Global Health, School of Public Health; MPAc – Evans School of Public Policy and Governance | Peru Project: Health Outreach, Education, and Policy in Rural Peru

Shadae Paul is pursuing a concurrent Master of Public Health and Master of Public Administration at UW, and is interested in maternal health, child health, and international development. After earning her BA at University of Maryland, College Park, Shadae served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji, South Pacific. She has spent many years working with women, children, and families with organizations such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), March of Dimes, Mary’s Center, Habitat for Humanity- Women Build, and Hagerstown Birth. This summer, Shadae will work in Lima, Peru with Mamas del Rio (Mama River), a program that uses medical ships to provide much needed maternal and newborn healthcare to remote communities along the Amazon River. Her primary objectives are to apply evidence-based approaches to community health, facilitate organizational planning and management, and develop recommendations for public policy related to maternal and child health in Peru. Shadae is very grateful to be a recipient of the Thomas Francis Jr Global Health Fellowship.

Megan Ramaiya, MSc-GH , PhDc – Clinical Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences | Nepal Project : Development of a Culturally Adapted Suicide Prevention Intervention

Megan Ramaiya is a first-year Clinical Psychology Doctoral student at the University of Washington, working with Dr. Jane Simoni. Prior to moving to Seattle, she received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Global Health and Biology from Duke University in North Carolina. Megan's research interests broadly span the intersections between Global Mental Health and Clinical Psychology, and center around the development and evaluation of culturally adapted behavioral interventions in low- and middle-income settings. For the past four years, she's worked in urban and rural Nepal to adapt and test components of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an intervention for suicidal clients with complex diagnoses, across a range of populations. Megan is especially interested in understanding cultural variation in how individuals process and regulate their emotions, and using this knowledge to develop targeted interventions for ethnic and sexual minorities. With the Thomas Francis Jr. fellowship, she will work with Dr. Simoni and colleagues in Nepal to begin developing an intervention for suicidal and self-harming men who have sex with men (MSM) by understanding how interpersonal processes influence their ability to manage strong emotions. Megan hopes the fellowship will be one step in continuing to strengthen UW's partnership with community-based mental health organizations in Nepal.

Manahil Siddiqi, MPHc – Health Services, School of Public Health | India and Switzerland Project: Preventing Child Marriage in India and Beyond: Informing WHO’s best practices

Manahil Siddiqi is a first-year MPH student in the Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program and a Global Health of Women, Adolescents and Children certificate candidate. Manahil earned her BA in Global Health, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 2015.  Prior to joining the University of Washington, she conducted research on refugee mothering, resettlement and mental health among conflict-affected populations. Currently, Manahil is working with Seattle-based NGO, VillageReach, in their efforts to increase access to life-saving vaccinations for children in Pakistan, and health systems strengthening more broadly. Her career goal is to be at the forefronts of global health efforts focused on improving the health of vulnerable populations around the world, and ultimately enhance knowledge, research, and policy in women and child health globally.

Through the Thomas Francis Jr. Global Health Fellowship, Manahil will work with the World Health Organization’s Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Department to conduct a study investigating the factors and barriers leading to decreased or stagnant rates of child marriage in India. Her work will contribute to WHO’s efforts on the elimination of child marriage, guiding the development of appropriate action plans and international recommendations to reduce child marriage. Manahil’s internship with the WHO exemplifies her deeply personal commitment to the cause of at-risk girls and women, particularly in South Asia.

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Carlie is currently a first-year MPH student in the Department of Global Health. She previously attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX graduating with degrees in Anthropology and Theatre. Prior to attending the UW, Carlie served as Community Health Development Agent with the Peace Corps in rural Burkina Faso, where she worked with local health care workers and community volunteers to implement numerous health education programs targeting water, sanitation, infectious disease and health equity. With this fellowship, Carlie will continue her work in health justice by working with Namibian people who are living with HIV to understand their experiences regarding HIV diagnosis and status acceptance, to engage in and retain in care and treatment, and to ensure adherence to their medication. 

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Sergey Feldman Wins Bonderman Travel Fellowship

May 1, 2009

Bonderman fellows are awarded funding for international travel for eight or more months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel the Fellows will focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it (no academic research is allowed during the travel experience!)

Applicants are judged on demonstration of integrity, the capacity for vision and leadership, and potential for humane and effective participation in the global community, as well as initiative, commitment, and creativity. The student�s experience as well as curiosity and seriousness of purpose are also considered.

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2020 Graduates Selected for UW Bonderman Travel Fellowship

The University of Washington has announced that 2020 Evans School graduates Elizabeth Esborn and Channing Nesbitt were among sixteen students selected for the 2020 Bonderman Fellowship. As Bonderman Travel Fellows, Elizabeth and Channing will be provided the rare opportunity to spend eight months independently exploring two regions and six countries with which they are not familiar.

This year, a new cohort of Bonderman Fellows was selected during unusual and difficult times. While UW Bonderman travel is currently on hiatus, the intention and spirit of the Bonderman Fellowship – to get to know other people and cultures, to go beyond one’s comfort zone, and to see the world as bigger and more complex than before – are especially relevant now.  While we don’t know when the 2020 fellows will be able to travel, we look forward to seeing what they make of this unique opportunity.

The broad vision of the Bonderman Fellowship is to inspire individual transformation by expanding fellows’ understanding of themselves and the complex, diverse, and interconnected world we live in. With this vision in mind, each fellow shapes their own learning and travel plan; though, they may not pursue academic study, projects, or research.

Elizabeth has crafted her itinerary with the goal of exploring local governance and infrastructure, both formal and informal, in other cultures. As a policy student invested in building more responsive, inclusive, and accountable community governance systems, Elizabeth is excited to learn more about how communities outside of the U.S. approach these goals.

Channing’ s desire to obtain a deeper understanding of human connection has been his main inspiration for pursuing this fellowship. Channing’s areas of interest within this idea focus on healing, belief and redemption. Having the intention of complete immersion within the different communities in which he travels, he looks to discover and define his own story within these contexts. One overarching question that he has is: “how can we digest our own unique experience to better understand the universality that binds us together?”

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UW Tacoma student earns $20,000 travel fellowship

Arabie Jaloway will travel to eight countries in eight months with a 2007 Bonderman Travel Fellowship.

On June 15, UW Tacoma student Arabie Jaloway will depart for the adventure of a lifetime.

Eight months. Eight countries. No professors, no coursework and no college credit—just intense immersion in the languages, cultures and environments of the world.

Jaloway, of Puyallup, is one of six University of Washington undergraduate students to earn a 2007 Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Created through a gift from 1963 UW graduate David Bonderman, the fellowship provides $20,000 for travel, with a few strings attached. Students must travel alone for at least eight months, cannot return to the United States at any time during their trip and cannot do anything academic while abroad or earn college credit for their travel.

"I'm really looking forward to a sense of discovery on this trip," Jaloway says. "I know I'm not just discovering the world — I'll be discovering myself."

The Bonderman Fellowship was created to foster independence, introduce students to new cultures and promote open-mindedness and understanding of the global community through transformative travel experiences. Jaloway was chosen as part of a rigorous application process in which applicants are considered based on integrity, capacity for vision and leadership and potential for humane and effective participation in the global community. Finalists were required to submit detailed travel proposals and submit to an extensive interview.

Jaloway, a junior in UW Tacoma's Environmental Science and Global Honors programs, will visit endangered national parks and ecosystems in South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Java, India, China, Australia and New Zealand. She plans to backpack and stay in hostels and looks forward to learning about a wide variety of traditions.

"It's kind of terrifying to go into a place where you don't speak the language, don't know the culture and don't know how to eat the food," she says. "I don't think you can experience something like that without becoming a better person."

Claudia Gorbman, director of the Global Honors Program, says Jaloway is a remarkable student who is deeply committed to changing the world for the better.

"She is truly a force to be reckoned with," she said. "We are excited to see her earn this wonderful opportunity to do nothing but follow her dreams and learn intensively about the world for the better part of a year."

Jaloway is pushing back her anticipated graduation date by at least three months to accommodate the trip. Her three children, ages 4 to 9, will be cared for by their father while she travels. She hopes a new, global perspective on life will open doors to a career in environmental policy and ethics.

"It's going to be rough, especially leaving my kids," she said. "But I don't know that I've ever done anything worth doing that wasn't rough."

Jaloway graduated from Pierce College Fort Steilacoom last June and earned one of UW Tacoma's prestigious Next Step scholarships, given to top transfer students from each of the university's seven partner community colleges. She is a student in UW Tacoma's Global Honors Program, which offers highly motivated UW Tacoma students a way to broaden their education by applying global perspectives and international experiences to their coursework.

Of more than a hundred applicants, three of the 20 finalists for the Bonderman Fellowship were UW Tacoma Global Honors students, according to Gorbman. The other two finalists from UW Tacoma were junior Jeff Eck of Allyn, also a 2006 Next Step Scholar, and senior Whitney Rhodes of Tacoma, both students in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program. This is the first year UW Tacoma students applied for the fellowship.

"This is an indication of how bright and competitive our Global Honors students are," she said. "My hat is off to all three of the finalists, who all performed wonderfully in a field of absolutely brilliant and deserving candidates."

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UW–Madison’s Owenby named to national fellowship for educator-preparation leaders

UW–Madison’s Thomas Owenby was recently named an Impact Academy fellow through the national nonprofit organization Deans for Impact (DFI). Owenby, who is the School of Education’s associate dean for teacher education, joins a cohort of leaders chosen for their commitment to improving educator preparation.

Educator-preparation programs today face complex challenges as they recruit and prepare teachers who are equipped to engage all PK-12 students in rigorous, equitable, and affirming learning experiences. More than ever, the field needs leaders who can strengthen and diversify the educator workforce. DFI aims to fill this need through its Impact Academy fellowship , which has empowered more than 130 dean-level leaders to date with skills, knowledge, and strategies to prioritize instructional quality and build more equitable systems of teaching and learning.

Owenby is one of 17 leaders announced as part of the fellowship’s ninth cohort. These fellows lead programs that serve 19 U.S. states and a broad diversity of geographic contexts from coast to coast. Forty-seven percent lead institutions that serve a majority of aspiring teachers of color, and 41 percent are leaders of color themselves. Six are Minority-Serving Institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Predominantly Black Institutions, and a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Collectively, 48 percent of the aspiring teachers these institutions annually serve identify as people of color.

“I am excited to engage in this Deans for Impact fellowship to learn with and from experienced teacher education leaders,” says Owenby, who also is the director of the School of Education’s Mary T. Kellner Teacher Education Center. “I think that this opportunity will support our ongoing efforts in the Mary T. Kellner Teacher Education Center to incubate research-based efforts to uplift and continually improve teacher education.

Fellows will participate in monthly learning sessions, receive one-on-one coaching from seasoned leaders, and engage in peer consultancies to address field-facing challenges in real time. They will hone their ability to engage faculty, staff, communities, and PK-12 partners in a shared vision for transformative change, grounded in a deep scientific understanding about how students learn.

“All students, and particularly students of color and students from underserved communities, deserve access to teachers who are well-prepared to engage them in rigorous and affirming learning experiences from day one,” says Valerie Sakimura, executive director of DFI. “We are thrilled to welcome a new cohort of leaders to Impact Academy who are committed to making that a reality, by doubling down on the essential role they play in making pathways into teaching more accessible, practice-based, and focused on evidence-based instruction.”

To learn more about this year’s Impact Academy cohort, visit: deansforimpact.org/iac9-announcement .

DFI is a national nonprofit organization committed to ensuring that every child is taught by a well-prepared teacher. DFI supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and focused on instruction; and equips leaders with the tools to address today’s most pressing challenges in educator preparation. Guided by principles of learning science, DFI aims to help aspiring and early-career teachers create rigorous and inclusive classrooms where all children thrive. For more information, visit deansforimpact.org .

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Melania Trump skips first presidential debate

Donald Trump’s wife has made few public appearances since leaving the White House, and she wasn’t with the former president as he debated President Biden on Thursday night.

Former first lady Melania Trump did not travel with former president Donald Trump to Thursday’s presidential debate in Atlanta, her latest absence after missing several events for her husband’s campaign this year.

The Trump campaign mocked a reporter who pointed out her absence.

Meanwhile, first lady Jill Biden is with President Biden in Atlanta for the CNN debate and is watching the debate from the studio. She is expected to travel with him to Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday evening ahead of a campaign event scheduled for Friday.

A representative from the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Melania Trump traveled with the former president to some of his previous political debates in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles. But she has mostly abstained from participating in political events since leaving the White House and has not attended any of his campaign rallies in recent months.

The former first lady has skipped most events since Trump announced his presidential run, including speeches he has given at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. There have been a few exceptions for public appearances, including attending a few fundraisers in April and the high school graduation of her son with the former president, Barron Trump.

She also did not attend court proceedings in her husband’s hush money trial in New York, nor was she seen in public with Trump after a jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last month.

The former president told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in February that his wife is a “private person” but said he expects her to have a public presence on the presidential campaign.

“It’s funny, she was a very successful model, very, very successful, and yet she was a private person. She’s going to be out a lot. Not because she likes doing it, but she likes the results,” he said at the time. “She wants to see this country really succeed. She loves the country.”

And in March, when asked if she was going to return to the trail, Melania Trump told a reporter : “Stay tuned.”

Josh Dawsey contributed to this report.

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Secretary Mayorkas Announces Extension and Redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status

WASHINGTON —Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced the extension and redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status for 18 months, from Aug. 4, 2024, to Feb. 3, 2026, due to extraordinary and temporary conditions in Haiti. The corresponding Federal Register Notice provides information about registering for TPS as a new or current beneficiary under Haiti’s extension and redesignation.

After consultation with interagency partners, Secretary Mayorkas determined on June 3, 2024, that an 18-month extension and redesignation of Haiti for TPS is warranted because conditions that support Haiti’s designation are ongoing and that doing so was not contrary to the national interest of the United States. Several regions in Haiti continue to face violence or insecurity, and many have limited access to safety, health care, food, and water. Haiti is particularly prone to flooding and mudslides, and often experiences significant damage due to storms, flooding, and earthquakes. These overlapping humanitarian challenges have resulted in ongoing urgent humanitarian needs.

“We are providing this humanitarian relief to Haitians already present in the United States given the conditions that existed in their home country as of June 3, 2024,” said Secretary Mayorkas. “In doing so, we are realizing the core objective of the TPS law and our obligation to fulfill it.”

The redesignation of Haiti for TPS allows an estimated 309,000 additional Haitian nationals (or individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Haiti) to file initial applications for TPS, if they are otherwise eligible and if they established residence in the United States on or before June 3, 2024, and have continued to reside in the United States since then (“continuous residence”). Eligible individuals who do not have TPS may submit an initial Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status , during the initial registration period that runs from July 1, 2024, through Feb. 3, 2026. Applicants also may apply for TPS-related Employment Authorization Documents and for travel authorization. Applicants can request an EAD by submitting a completed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization , with their Form I-821, or separately later.

Haitians who were not residing in the United States on or before June 3, 2024, are not eligible for such protection, and will face removal to Haiti if they do not establish a legal basis to stay.

The extension of TPS for Haiti allows current beneficiaries to retain TPS through Feb. 3, 2026, if they continue to meet TPS eligibility requirements. Current beneficiaries under TPS for Haiti must re-register in a timely manner during the 60-day re-registration period from July 1, 2024, through Aug. 30, 2024, to ensure they keep their TPS and employment authorization. Re-registration is limited to individuals who previously registered for and were granted TPS under Haiti’s initial designation.

DHS recognizes that not all re-registrants who apply for a new EAD may receive it before their current EAD expires and is automatically extending through Aug. 3, 2025, the validity of certain EADs previously issued under Haiti’s TPS designation. Details will be available on USCIS.gov.

If you have one of these EADs, to get an EAD that is valid after Aug. 3, 2025, you must re-register for TPS and file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization , following the instructions in the Federal Register notice extending and redesignating Haiti for TPS through Feb. 3, 2026. If U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approves your newly filed Form I-765, USCIS will issue you an EAD valid through Feb. 3, 2026.

USCIS will continue to process pending applications filed under previous TPS designations for Haiti. Individuals with a pending Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status , or a related Form I-765 as of July 1, 2024, do not need to file either application again. If USCIS approves a pending Form I-821 or Form I-765 filed under the previous designation of TPS for Haiti, USCIS will grant the individual TPS through Feb. 3, 2026, and issue an EAD valid through the same date.

The Federal Register Notice explains eligibility criteria, timelines, and procedures necessary for current beneficiaries to re-register and renew EADs, and for new applicants to submit an initial application under the redesignation and apply for an EAD.

This extension and redesignation does not apply for anyone who was not already in the United States on June 3, 2024, and consequences continue to be enforced on those attempting to cross unlawfully or without authorization into the United States. Since the Securing the Border Presidential Proclamation and Interim Final Rule was issued in early June, over 24,000 noncitizens have been removed or returned to more than 20 countries. All irregular migration journeys, especially maritime routes, are extremely dangerous, unforgiving, and often result in loss of life. DHS will continue to enforce U.S. laws and policy throughout the Florida Straits and the Caribbean region, as well as at the southwest border. U.S. policy is to return noncitizens who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States.

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