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Jenna Mazza (2019 Schaeffer Fellow) graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Spanish. Jenna completed her Schaeffer Fellow internship with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. She is a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipient of a Study/Research grant to Spain. Learn more about Jenna’s application experience below: What motivated …

In keeping with his Harvard concentration, DeVaughn plans to pursue a degree in history at Oxford, focusing on the travels of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Malcolm X in the United Kingdom, the political philosophies they brought with them, and the insights into American racism they gained while abroad. Read full story here.

USC Trustee Leonard D. Schaeffer and his wife, Pamela, donate $17 million to support efforts of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics; and support the administration of the Schaeffer Fellows in Government Service program.

“Dean Knott credited the school’s amazing research centers, the largest of which is the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, for the policy analysis their scholars produce. Leonard D. Schaeffer, a USC Trustee and Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair who endowed the Center, congratulated Dean Knott on the growth and increases in funding the school has experienced in his …

Recent USC graduate, Vivian Le named USC Price School valedictorian. In the summer following her sophomore year, she interned for then-U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra, currently California’s Attorney General, as a Schaeffer Fellow.

Excerpt: “‘The two best things Princeton did for me,’ he now recollects, ‘were 1) I met my wife Pamela, and 2) I applied for and was accepted into a summer internship with Illinois Senator Paul Douglas (photo, right, taken circa Summer, 1966). The former made me happy; the latter sparked an interest in the role of government and policy.’”

Remaya Campbell graduated from University of Southern California in December 2017 with a B.A. in Law, History and Culture and a minor in International Relations.  Remaya was selected for a 2018 Rotary Global Grant Scholarship through District 5330.  She will attend the University of Otago in New Zealand for a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies starting in July 2018.  Her …

The prestigious Marshall Scholarships fund up to 40 scholars each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study. As future leaders, with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments and their institutions. Marshall Scholars are talented, independent and wide-ranging, and …

“Overall, this internship experience was truly irreplaceable and at a juncture in American politics that will go down in the history books. It solidified some of my political interests — electoral politics and voting rights as well as technology and user protection, gave me valuable insight into the committee process, and resulted in my first personal experience with the differences …