Image: Julianna Russ of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, a third-year student at the University of Georgia minoring in African Languages and Literature, is one of 100 college students from across the country selected for the second cohort of the Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service. Established in 2021 by the Obama Foundation and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the Voyager Scholarship is a two-year program for students in their junior and senior years of college from across the U.S. who are committed to pursuing careers that serve the public and their communities. A meaningful summer work-travel experience—or summer voyage—for Russ would be an internship with Reporters without Borders in its Tunisia bureau, she said. “My study of Arabic for the past two years has underscored my desire to support independent journalists in the Middle East and North Africa through advocacy and research.” Read the UGA campus news release Type of News/Audience: Recognition
