Becca D. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Becca is pursuing a bachelor's in French Studies with a minor in History. Her academic interests range from literary history, translation, late medieval and early modern periods, and francophone Africa. Having grown up as a military child, her love for learning cross-culturally and for languages started at a young age with the different places she lived and her own mixed background. At 16 years old, she set off to rural, northern France where she spent an academic year in a French high school– making lifelong friendships, exploring the cuisine, studying art, and falling in love with French literature. At Stanford, she is the Vice President of Vox Clara, the Stanford Journal of Christian thought, and a Junior Fellow at the Zephyr Institute, a local think tank dedicated to recovering the humanities in Silicon Valley. Her current main academic project is her research for the Senegal Liberations Project, which aims to make available to scholars, students, and teachers in Senegal and elsewhere an unused archival source: the registers of official liberations. The past two summers, she has spent her time traveling, working on a grass roots Congressional campaign in Chicago, and interning at a think tank in Princeton. In her free time, she does photography, paints, reads a myriad of books, travels (she especially loves to do so around France), learns Italian, listens to Mumford & Sons, and plays around with coffee gadgets. Becca is committed to making learning applicable, engaging, and confidence-building for all students!