Strauss Scholar Spotlight

JAMES FRKOVICH

In His Own Words

 ...I would like to give all the board members an update on where I am, and give my sincerest thanks for the experience that the Strauss Foundation gave me.I am currently a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. I am an infantry officer and currently serving with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. At the end of the month, I will go on my first deployment to Afghanistan and serve as an adviser to a Company of Afghan Police in Southern Helmand Province.

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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