2007 Slevin Award Winners: Jameson DeBose and Katherine Ward

At the 2007 Presentation of Senior Theses, held April 25, the two winners of the James F. Slevin Award for Academic Excellence and Commitment to Social Justice were announced: Jameson DeBose and Katherine Ward. Following are short bios of the two winners:

Jameson DeBose: During his time at Georgetown, Jameson Lee DeBose has participated in the Georgetown community and the greater DC community in a number of ways. Among other activities, he has volunteered at the Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts as a Math and French tutor and completed a year of service as an Americorps service member for Heads-Up, A Neighborhood Initiative.

He served for a year as the Vice President of Georgetown’s Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Jameson received the Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship through the US Department of State and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Through this opportunity, he will complete a MA in International Communication at American University, where he was offered a Deans’ Award, en route to becoming a Foreign Service Officer in either the public diplomacy or political career tracks in the State Department.

Katherine Ward: Katherine Ward is the Special Assistant to the Board, Global Campus Outreach for Sage Leadership Partners, Inc., a new international NGO working to promote the theory of open source education.

A journalist at heart, Katherine will complete a Bachelors of Foreign Service (May 2007) in Culture and Politics. Katherine has many diverse experiences including working on Capitol Hill with the Foreign Affairs Committee, developing and instructing an arts-awareness program for inner-city youth at Girard College in Philadelphia, adoption assistance in China, and publicity experience in editing and grant writing with the Pennsylvania Ballet and the 100 Projects for Peace Initiative. Katherine has lived abroad and taught English in both Spain and Chile. In the Spring of 2006, Katherine developed
and implemented an English language program for students of all ages in the first ever community-run technology center in metropolitan Santiago. Katherine is fluent in Spanish and her aspirations include graduate study in U.S. / Latin American foreign relations.

Katherine is currently working on a Projects for Peace initiative diversity training project in the Andean Region.

Congratulations to Katherine and Jameson and the best of luck to you in all your future ventures!