Honors, Awards & Travels

2016 Israeli Heritage Nationally Room Scholarship:

I was awarded the University of Pittsburgh Nationally Room Scholarship to study in Tel-Aviv at the Shimon Peres Center for Peace. I worked on the USAID funded Sports for Development and Peace initiative. This program uses soccer as a tool to connect Israeli's, Arab-Israelis and Palestinians. I kept a blog that you can find here. http://jrplatt0928.wixsite.com/julie-travels/blog

I was awarded the HESA Grant to study at the University of Pittsburgh in the duel Social Work and Public Health Program. Throughout the program, I gained leadership skills.

Grassroot Soccer Fellowship

I was chosen to spend the year working in South Africa for a NGO called Grassroot Soccer that uses soccer as a tool to help youth be change agents in their communities. I specifically worked with young adults who teach HIV/AIDs prevention to youth through the metaphor of soccer. I worked one-on-one and with groups of coaches teaching them employment and computer skills. I kept a blog, that you can find here: http://jrplatt0928.wixsite.com/julie-travels