Tamara K. Montacute '05 Wins Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
Tamara K. Montacute '05, has been awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation graduate scholarship. The award will cover her academic costs as she earns her Master of Public Health degree at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
Tamara's award is one of only 76 given yearly by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Roughly 2,000 students apply for the scholarship each year, including international students attending U.S. colleges. Recipients are chosen on the basis of academic
ability, community involvement and demonstrated interest in the
arts and humanities.
Tamara, who grew up in New Zealand, as well as England and Spain, graduated from Barnard with a major in Environmental Science. She was an active member of the Barnard-Columbia Mentoring Program for four years, worked as a student wilderness ranger in Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington, and studied at both the Biosphere and the Woods' Hole Sea Education Association Program. She is currently working at the orphanage and medical clinic of Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, near Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Tamara is Barnard's first winner of this prestigious, and relatively new graduate scholarship.
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