Three seniors awarded Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects

Princeton University seniors Uma Fox, Raphaela Gold and William Travis have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse 1926 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation. 

Fox, a history major from Silver Spring, Maryland, will collaborate on strategic litigation, legal interventions and legal research that counters international human rights abuses in Berlin, Germany. Gold, an English major from New York City, will document how farmers are experiencing the region's water crisis amid climate change in Pedasí, Panama. Travis, a psychology major from Evanston, Illinois, will undertake a qualitative study in the Kanungu District of southwest Uganda, to examine how private investment can function as a sustainable public health intervention. 

The Labouisse Prize, which awards $35,000 to each recipient, enables graduating seniors to engage in a project that exemplifies the life and work of Henry Richardson Labouisse, a 1926 Princeton alumnus who was a diplomat, international public servant and champion for the causes of international justice and international development. Labouisse’s daughter Anne Peretz and family established the prize in 1984. It is administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Read the full announcement on the PIIRS homepage.