Alumni News at the Institute
Trisha Mukherjee, Human Rights major CC ‘21, has been chosen to receive Nicholas Kristof’s “Win a Trip” Award. Kristof, a New York Times Opinion columnist, selects one student from an American university to accompany him on an international reporting trip. Trisha, who also graduated from Columbia Journalism School in May 2024, will travel and report with him in Madagascar, Mauritius, and Kenya for 2 weeks this winter.
Tetiana (Tanya) Kotelnykova, HRSMA 2023, was selected as a recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award. The award ceremony took place on May 6, 2024.
Mary Olson, who graduated from Columbia College’s B.A. in Human Rights in 2021, was recently selected to be a 2024 Marshall Scholar. Read more about her time as a student and her plans for the future.