Fulbrighter selected for 2018 class of Pickering fellows

The Office of Fellowships is pleased to announce that Anna Jozwik (WCAS ’05) has been named a 2018 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow! Through this fellowship, Anna will join the US Foreign Service upon completion of a master’s program in Middle East studies and two internships with the Department of State.

Anna currently works as a linguist in the Washington, DC, area. After graduating from Northwestern, she won a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Poland. Following intensive Arabic study in the UAE through the Rotary Foundation’s Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship, she interned at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in Syria, and worked as a journalist, English teacher, and translator. She witnessed the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and moved to Lebanon to work as a protection officer with the International Rescue Committee’s women’s protection and empowerment program. She returned to the US to study international relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, concentrating in international development.

Anna is also a recipient of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowship, on which she studied in Egypt, in 2010; and the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, on which she studied Arabic at Middlebury College’s summer program, in 2013.

Funded by the Department of State and administered by The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, the Pickering Fellowship provides graduate students with financial support, mentoring and professional development to prepare them for a career with the Department of State. Women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, and students with financial need are encouraged to apply.

Anna is the fifth Wildcat, all from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, to claim the Pickering Fellowship since 2007-2008, when Dulce Acosta-Licea (’10) won the award. Dulce was followed by Darryl Turner, Jr. (’12), in 2011; Elizabeth Pinedo (’14), in 2013; and Ramata Sow (’09), in 2015.

Contact Amy Kehoe at amy.kehoe@northwestern.edu to learn more about the Pickering Fellowship.