Strauss Scholar Spotlight

Amanda Cundiff

Inspiration in a Rainforest

The Strauss scholarship has legs. That's a quality deeply sought and remarkably demonstrated in our first ten years.

A classic example is Amanda Cundiff, who won her Strauss scholarship in 1999 and credits it today as a major catalyst and core element in a life focused on environmental science and management, currently in the U.S. Forest Service.

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Nicole Bazell (2001, pictured left) graduated in 2008 from UC Berkeley with a Masters in Public Health public policy, and is now working as the national HIV program manager for the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, which she describes as the leading national policy and advocacy organization working to increase the health of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders. She also notes that in 2009 she married her UC Santa Cruz college sweetheart, and they’re living in Oakland…… Tess Bridgeman (2002) was studying at Stanford while implementing her Strauss project --Building Bridges To Community He alth In Underserved Areas—and was later named a Rhodes Scholar, so it hardly comes as a surprise that she graduated from NYU Law School magna cum laude  and Order of the Coif. Or that she submitted her DPhil in International Relations at Oxford, and returned there in December for her dissertation defense. Now living in Philadelphia, Tess is clerking for Judge Ambro on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals… Jesse Dubler (2008, pictured right) checked in to let us know that he’s holding down a full-time staff/research position at Rochester Institute of Technology, conducting research in psycholinguistics … There continue to be any number of wonderful ways that the project Britney Holland (2009) created and executed while at Loyola Marymount - Increasing Advocacy & Support for Veterans - resonates, very much including on the LMU campus itself. For instance, Britney organized a luncheon for veterans—including faculty and staff who served in the Armed Forces—part of her ongoing outreach that