Morocco-Bound

This fall, Jordyn Arndt '11 will be heading to Fez, Morocco, on a Fulbright scholarship, where she will expand on "International Trade and Women's Work in Morocco: An Analysis of the Causes, Consequences, and Reactions," a research project she conducted while an undergraduate student at St. Catherine. She presented the paper at the Education Without Borders conference in Dubai in March 2011.

Arndt, an honors student who graduated summa cum laude, has been teaching English to secondary-school students on Reunion, a small French-speaking island off the coast of Madagascar.

She will live in Fez for the first five months of her scholarship and then travel to the mountain city of Ifrane for the second half. While there, Arndt will make frequent visits to the Moroccan cities of Rabat and Salé to work with the Solidarity Center, one of her affiliate organizations, and conduct interviews with women workers in the textile and clothing manufacturing industry.

Being a Fulbright scholar has long been a dream of Arndt's, who first applied for the honor when she was a student at St. Kate's. She wasn’t selected the first time, but she rewrote her application and sent it in again this year. Arndt got word that she had been selected for the Fulbright this spring, while she was wrapping up her teaching contract in Reunion.

"I knew that being a Fulbright Scholar would do wonders for my personal and professional development," Arndt says. "Receiving the Fulbright grant enables me to conduct research overseas on a topic of great interest and will help me get into graduate school and begin my career in academia." — Andy Steiner