Stephanie Petit-Homme, a senior in CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, will spend the spring semester in France as a Gilman Scholar.
Stephanie Petit-Homme, a City College of New York senior with dreams of making a difference globally as a human rights lawyer, has been awarded a 2014 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad. The political science and French double major will spend the spring semester at Université Paris VIII in France.
Gilman Scholars are selected by the International Institute of Education from a competitive process in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. The program’s mission is to prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.
Ms. Petit-Homme, who is of first generation Haitian descent, said she would use the scholarship to study French culture and the language. Her career goal is to obtain a degree in international relations law and work in human rights.
The Jamaica, Queens, resident, interned last spring at theNational Disability Rights Network in Washington, DC. under City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.
About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture; the School of Education; the Grove School of Engineering; the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. U.S. News, Princeton Review and Forbes all rank City College among the best colleges and universities in the United States.