Matadorian seeks support to win Pepsi Refresh Grant

Do we remember a stroke your initial transport experience had upon you?

Tamara Walker does.

Check out her bio:

Tamara grew up in Denver, Colorado as well as outlayed a initial half of her preparation in attendance poorly funded public schools. After receiving a inexhaustible scholarship, she enrolled during an area private school, where international preparation was deeply ingrained in to both a culture as well as curriculum. Even as a seventh grader, she lagged behind her peers, who by afterwards had been investigate foreign languages, guidance about alternative countries, as well as traveling abroad for multiform years.

While initially overwhelmed, she shortly began to thrive as well as was in a future means to put her Spanish as well as French skills to a exam upon class trips to Mexico as well as France. These practice helped indurate a passion for cross-cultural exchange, which she one after another to pursue as a Spanish vital during a University of Pennsylvania (when she studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina), as well as later as a PhD tyro in Latin American History during a University of Michigan (when she perceived a Fulbright award for investigate in Peru).

Today, Tamara is an Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American History during a University of Pennsylvania.

Tamara is additionally a co-founder as well as co-director of The Wandering Scholar, an classification which strives to make international preparation practice as permitted to immature people as possible.

To which end, The Wandering Scholar selects students of promise from underserved communities as well as awards them with a scholarship which creates it probable for them to transport abroad for a summer. During their trip, a scholars experience in village service projects as well as learn about local hold up by homestays. They additionally request their pr! actice u pon blogs, in videos as well as photos, as well as around podcasts, with a idea of encouraging alternative immature people to travel.

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The Wandering Scholar is now competing for a $50,000 USD accede to from Pepsis Refresh Project, as well as Tamara has asked Matador readers to await a classification in its bid to win a grant. $50,000 would help compensate for students pass fees as well as visas, their flights as well as accommodations, as well as their transport practice abroad.

Anyone can opinion (and we can opinion daily). If we have a Facebook account, we can record in to a Pepsi Refresh Project by which account; otherwise, youll need to set up a user name as well as cue with Pepsi Refresh. Once youre logged in, opinion for The Wandering Scholar here.