Jasmine McClam, C’2020, is sharing her talents internationally – as a graduate Fellow via the U.S. Department of State at the Embassy of Panama.
For McClam, who expressed her excitement at the announcement via LinkedIn this summer, the opportunity is more like a promotion than a fresh start. In 2020, McClam was awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, which allowed her to spend the summer of 2021 working as an intern with the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Now, she’s gaining hands-on experience with U.S. foreign
policy.
During her time at Spelman, the international studies major discovered that she could work for global peace by bridging the gap between various cultures through diplomacy and traveled to seven Spanish-speaking countries to conduct research on how Afro-Uruguayan women mobilize politically.
In the summer of 2019, McClam interned with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and was selected as a Council of American Ambassadors Fellow. Prior to graduation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Missouri City, Texas, native also served in numerous leadership roles on campus including as president of the Mu Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Inc., a head Peer Assistant Leader (PAL), the intern for Spelman’s Women in Excellence Leadership (WEL) program and a Spanish tutor in Spelman’s Language Lab.
Following the completion of her graduate degree, McClam is set to become a U.S. Foreign Service Officer – a role that will allow her to extend her growing legacy of service to include service to her country.
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