Below you will find our scholar blog posts – they cover a variety of topics, from arriving in the U.S. to interning with a stellar company to post-graduation dreams.
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| I’ve always been interested in studying different genocides that happened in the world, especially Rwanda. I became the president of Never Again Club at my high school in 2010. The club helped me learn so much about division and the outbreak of genocides, but I couldn’t understand why genocides still happen. Therefore, I continued to study. When I got into Tufts, I didn’t know I’d find a space for continuing my genocide education. Surprisingly, I got different opportunities from Tufts Hillel to travel to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., Israeli and Palestinian territories and my mama land |
| SHE-CAN: What was your favorite part about your vacation?Sreytom: I like to hangout with my mentors. It doesn’t matter what activities we were doing. I like to spend time with them at the kitchen (cooking), to have a conversation with their family and to have conversations with my mentors regarding our personal and academic lives. It was great that we went to see a movie together so we can discuss the movie and link it to other topics. Also while I was enjoying my time with my mentors, I was so glad that I could do something for SHE-CAN like meeting and talking to SHE-CAN scholars, mentors, staff and donors. |  |
 | SHE-CAN: What was your favorite part about the Torani lunch meeting, and did you take the lychee syrup home or another flavor?Sreytom: It was my honor to share my story with them, and it was a great chance to get to know and learn about those powerful and successful women. I had a great opportunity to have a short tour at their industry operation which was my first time and felt amazed. I got a chance to taste lychee syrup from Torani, and they gave me a bottle of peach syrup. |
| When I was first introduced to my mentors by Barbara Bylenga via Skype in June 2016, neither I nor my mentors had thought we’d create such a bond. Being a part of SHE-CAN had so far been nothing short of an extreme privilege, so saying that I was excited to be a mentee to a team of strong and loving women is an understatement. After receiving admission to attend Beloit College in Wisconsin during the fall of 2017, my mentors and I discussed what I could do while I wait to leave for the U.S. in August. Aside from the obvious such |
