Two students from Dumaguete will fly to the US to participate in the Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations in February in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Public Administration student Justinne Marie Real and Economics major Genin Raya Amiscaray have been selected to participate in the conference that will run from Feb. 17 to 20 at Harvard University.
In his acceptance letters to Justinne Real and to Genin Amiscaray, Harvard conference executive director Larry Zhang said, “Finding common ground in Asian-Pacific issues is a dynamic and innovative process, which integrates ideas and actions from across Asia and the whole world. It is only through the active participation of highly-qualified delegates like you that this understanding and process can be realized.”
Real is a scholar at the University of the Philippines-Diliman National College of Publication Administration & Governance. Her advocacies include Violence against Women, anti-human trafficking, sustainable development issues, women’s equality and leadership, minorities and indigenous peoples, good governance, and population issues. She also works as a research assistant in the congressional office of 2nd District Cong. Manuel T. Sagarbarria in Manila. She went to St. Louis School-Don Bosco in high school.
Amiscaray, a senior at the Silliman University College of Business Administration, expressed her gratitude and excitement towards her acceptance. She said she is preparing to be more aware of the relevant social, economic, and political issues in the region. “I am expected to shed some light into our country’s current problems, and gain as many take-aways as I can from what the other countries are doing to address their respective problems,” she said. Amiscaray, who was crowned Miss Silliman in 2015, is an active member of Ang Sandigan, and is busy with her advocacy programs like Project Abakada and Heart for a Child.
The Harvard Project for International Relations is a student-run organization at Harvard College that offers a forum of exchange to facilitate discussion on economic, political, and social issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. (With reports from Tiara Jaya Jabutay/SU Masscom)
