CONWAY — A Hendrix College senior from Little Rock has received a scholarship to study in the United Kingdom.
Sean Alexander received the Marshall Scholarship, the private college in Conway announced Tuesday. The politics major plans to pursue a master’s degree in food security and development at the University of Reading and a master’s degree in comparative social policy at Oxford University.
Alexander has worked with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance and is “especially interested in rural food insecurity and economic development in post-industrialized nations,” Hendrix said in a news release.
“My internship at Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance through the Hendrix Odyssey Program during the summer after my freshman year changed my life,” Alexander said in the release. “Because of that opportunity, I visited most Arkansas counties to work with local food pantries and got really interested in the issue of rural hunger.”
After completing his postgraduate studies, Alexander plans to establish a rural policy think tank to develop globally inspired policies to combat rural hunger and poverty, Hendrix said.
Alexander is the son of Peter and Kris Alexander and is a graduate of eStem Charter School in Little Rock.
Marshall Scholarships finance up to 40 young Americans each year to study for graduate degrees in the United Kingdom.