SENNA CHEN, daughter of Suzan Vigil Chen and Adam Chen, has recently returned from a month-long study at MexArt, an art institute in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Senna studied drawing and painting, photography, jewelry making and Spanish. She plans to continue her study of art throughout high school and into college. Senna will be a junior at Marymount in the fall. o o o LISA M. HARWOOD, daughter of Bryant and Elaine Harwood, graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Boston College. Lisa went to Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord, MA. She will be working in Boston next year at Cornerstone Research doing economic and litigation consulting. While at school she worked with Appalachia Volunteers and Campus School Volunteers, and was a member of the Bellarmine Pre-Law Society. o o o Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a non-partisan 501(c)3 organization promoting multilateralism, honored JESSICA KINLOCH, the daughter of James and Edith Kinloch, with its ‘Young Patriot’ award. The award was created to ‘to honor those extraordinary young leaders who fight for a U.S. foreign policy that is true to American values.’ As part of the award, Jessica participated in an all-expenses paid weekend retreat in Peacham, Vermont, aimed at raising global awareness on university campuses. ‘I feel terrific about receiving the award and moving forward with Americans for Informed Democracy,’ Kinloch said in an e-mail. ‘I was recently also named Senior Political Analyst of AID and am a member of the Board. I hope to use my position to encourage young people and communities across America to help improve America’s image abroad and to engage them in current world issues.’ According to the organization’s director Seth Green, Jessica’s impressive background qualified her for this honor. Jessica graduated this June from Harvard University with an honors degree in history. Her studies focused on the modern international migration phenomenon, specifically on human trafficking and xenophobia. Jessica is a recipient of the DeWolfe Howe grant from Harvard Law School to author a book as a continuation of her honors senior thesis entitled, ‘The Golden Venture Saga of 1993: Complex Dialogues and Continuing Reverberations.’ Jessica is active in the field of human rights and she has worked with some of the foremost authorities in her field. As an accomplished pianist, she has performed extensively in California and New England and also served as President of the Harvard Piano Society. In March of this year, as one-half of the Isengard Duo, she returned home to perform in a violin-piano concert at Pierson Playhouse. Jessica will now help to organize an Americans for Informed Democracy chapter in Dallas, Texas and the upcoming ‘Hope not Hate’ Series on U.S.-Islamic relations, to be held in September as part of a national town hall series in more than a dozen cities nationwide. Her future plans include teaching and law school. o o o Palisades High Seniors GENEVIEVE GOULD and KEREN DALLALZADEH are among a select group of students attending the UC Davis Young Scholars Program this summer. Hosted by the School of Education, the advanced science program introduces up to 40 high-achieving high school sophomores and juniors to the world of original research in the biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences. Gould is working on plant pathology, researching disease resistance in rice, while Dallalzadeh is working in plant biology, studying DNA damage and repair in Arabidopsis thaliana plants, a non-commercial member of the mustard family. Her work can aid in finding more precise and predictable genetic engineering methods for crops. To qualify for the program, students must have a strong academic record, have taken biology and two years of college preparatory math, write a personal essay, and have teacher recommendations.
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