Aubrey Walker '11 selected as 2015-16 Fulbright Scholar

Aubrey Walker '11 has been selected as a 2015-16 Fulbright Scholar to pursue research on correctional health reform in Colombia. This is the second major travel award for Walker, who also received a David Rockefeller Grant to travel to Peru before sophomore year, where he volunteered at the largest pediatric and cancer institutes in the country. Walker is a current senior at Harvard University concentrating in human evolutionary biology with an emphasis on mind/brain/behavior. For all four years of his undergraduate career, he has interned for the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. The foundation’s website lists Walker’s areas of interest as “health disparities, mass incarceration, and equitable access and outcomes in education,” and states that he “believes strongly in intercultural and race relations in order to create inclusive coalitions, promote consciousness building, and improve the quality of our common life.”

Walker’s devotion to equity was evident long before college: While attending Middle and Upper School at Poly, he was deeply committed to raising conversations of diversity and inclusion within the community. Walker served as the president of the Black Student Union and arranged for Dr. Terrence Roberts, civil rights activist and member of the “Little Rock Nine,” to speak to the student body on issues of integration. An exceptional student and clear leader on campus, Walker was elected Associated Student Body president in his senior year and twice awarded the Fullerton '32 Scholarship.

Photo credit: Ron Brown Scholar Program
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