14 of the 32 US Rhodes Scholars were from the Ivy league, including both from the Seattle/Northwest region. Here are the blurbs of the Seattle ones:
DISTRICT 14 Oregon Jared C. Milfred, Portland, is a senior at Yale University, where he will receive a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. He has combined research in political theory and political science with a passion for social justice advocacy and campaign finance reform. He founded the nonpartisan student advocacy organizations Democracy United, serves as the Chief Executive of the National Council of City Public Financing Agencies, and chairs the City of New Haven Campaign Finance Board. Jared worked as a speechwriter for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and is Editor-in-Chief of Yale’s Journal of Political Thought, as well as the Ethics Editor of the Yale Philosophy Review. He volunteers as an EMT for Yale Emergency Medical Services and as a reader for blind students at Yale’s Office on Disabilities. At age 17, Jared became the youngest licensed nuclear reactor operator in the United States. He willpursue an M.Phil. in Political Theory at Oxford.
Washington Mason Y. Ji, Shoreline, is a senior at Yale, majoring in Global Affairs. He was also a student at the School of International Studies at Peking University. His senior thesis explains how deepened East-West dialogue has given rise to multicultural dispute resolution mechanisms. Mason was also, at age 18, the youngest U.N. delegate, and adviser to the Mission of the
Republic of the Seychelles, and co-authored a document that influenced the 2014 U.S.-China joint statement on climate change. He has interned at the White House and for one of China’s largest law firms, is a competitive table tennis player in the U.S. and China, and a principal oboist for the Yale Concert Band. He will do the M.Phil. in International Relations at Oxford.
