Awardee

I completed a 135-hour in-person internship at a research center at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Working alongside doctoral scholars and policy researchers, I designed and led my own independent project on digital literacy and educational inequality, analyzing data from over 150 countries using the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report. I concluded the project by writing a public-facing newsletter titled "From Access to Understanding: The Rise of Digital Literacy." Conducted partly in Korean, the internship was directly connected to my Sociology major by grounding abstract theories of structural inequality in real-world, cross-national data and pushing me to develop skills in R programming, large-scale dataset analysis, and translating complex research for public audiences.